#Judaic mythology

[luminous-swan]

Lilith (1887) by John Collier

Commentators and interpreters often envision the figure of Lilith as a dangerous demon of the night, who is sexually wanton, and who steals babies in the darkness. In the Dead Sea Scrolls 4Q510-511, the term first occurs in a list of monsters. Jewish magical inscriptions on bowls and amulets from the 6th century AD onward identify Lilith as a female demon and provide the first visual depictions of her.

#lilith #Judaic mythology #mythology #myth #garden of eden #magical #painting #oil painting #John Collier #femme fatale #art #magic art #biblical art #religious art #snake

[dynocation]

🌈⭐ Cute Little Angels ✧( ु•⌄• )◞◟( •⌄• ू )✧ 🌈⭐

#dynocation #judaic mythology

[raspberry-beret]

Mythology Weekend - Lilith

In Mesopotamian and Judaic mythology, Lilith was the first wife of the first man, Adam, and created from the same soil. Lilith left the Garden of Eden after she refused to obey and be subservient to her husband and became a demon associated with sexual temptation and death, especially of young children. She was said to be the mother of all demons and people would use amulets to protect against her. Modernly, Lilith has been a figure in Occultism as a symbol of female independence and as a sex, fertility, and mother goddess.

#my post #capsule wardrobe #capsule #fashion #style #minimalism #minimalist wardrobe #minimalist fashion #red #black #fall #mythology #myth #mythology weekend #lilith #judaic mythology #jewish mythology #occult #mesopotamian mythology

[mrsdenasaan]

Dragons Don't Celebrate Passover is coming...

#passover #pesach #jewish #judaic mythology #judaica #jewish holidays #judiasm #books #writing #author #funny quotes

[trixtheclonetrooper]

Complete Monster in Gold Squad & Adventure of White Vortex: Lilith & Asmodeus.

Lilith,

Asmodeus,

#crossover fanfiction #crossover #fanfiction #villain #gold squad & adventure of white vortex #the bible #demon #vampire #lilith #asmodeus #judeo christian #judeo Islamic #book of tobit #ars goetia #mesopotamian #mesopotamian mythology #complete monster #pure evil #judaic mythology #judaic #book of isaiah #mandaean #mandaean mythology

[harrietswrittenworlds]

LILITH

By Nikki Marmery

📖 BOOK REVIEW:

Amazing new release! Beautifully divine.

A triumphantly feminist retelling of ancient creation myths in the tradition of Madeline Miller and Claire North. Lyrically rendered, this epic U.S. debut tells the story of the woman known as Adam's first wife and her fall from Paradise and quest for revenge.

Before Eve, there was Lilith. Lilith and Adam are equal and happy in the Garden of Eden. Until Adam decides Lilith should submit to his will and lie beneath him. She refuses and is banished forever from Paradise.

Demonized and sidelined, Lilith watches in fury as God creates Eve, the woman who accepts her submission. But Lilith has a secret: she has already tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Endowed with Wisdom, she knows why Asherah, God's wife and equal, the Queen of Heaven is missing. Lilith has a plan: she will rescue Eve, find Asherah, restore balance to the world, and regain her rightful place in Paradise.

If this is not the best book of 2023, I don't know what is. A bold retelling of our origin story. Lilith's story is finally told and finally heard!

Here is a link above to get the full review and my favorite quotes.

Have you read Lilith yet?!!!!

#lilith #lilithbynikkimarmery #biblical myths #etherealheroines #ancientgoddesses #ancient religion #judaic myths #mythology retellings #october releases #Instagram

[aurik6]

If Yui is Eve, then Cordelia is a technical Lilith?

#ok i know lilith is from judaic mythology and has no relation to christian bible #but still the image works good with it #lol

[mirrabellah]

If someone were to show up at my doorstep with a mysterious cursed object and wanted to know what it was I feel like I would be prepared.

I think I’ve finally reached the point of “snippy supernatural expert” in my character development

#no seriously what do you need? pre Judaic religion? East Asian mythology? west Asian mysticism? I’ve got you #if u need European paganism or folklore I can hop in the library real quick or refer u to my friends that specialize in that #lemme be someone’s researcher sidekick already #not Christianity tho I don’t mess with that go to a theologist

[three--rings]

Okay look I don't really Go Here, but are people really saying it's OOC of Aziraphale to chose to return to Heaven?

Are those people like totally unexposed to religion?

Because maybe like they don't get what the Metatron is. It's not another angel. It is literally the Voice of God. In traditional Christian teaching, a human cannot hear God's voice or it will kill them because the voice is so powerful. So when God needs to speak, it's through an intermediary like a burning bush or something. Or specifically The Metatron. (This may come from Judaic tradition, but I can't speak to that. But I went to seven years of Catholic school.)

So here's the thing. Yeah Aziraphale became disillusioned by Heaven and the bureaucracy of it. And maybe a little with God's Plan, especially from the Job thing.

But he didn't stop being an angel. He didn't stop believing in and worshiping God.

So imagine you quit your job because the board of directors is constantly making bad decisions and giving you terrible orders, but you still believe in the company and the CEO (who is in a coma or something.) And then the CEO wakes up and comes to you and is like "Hey we got rid of all those other people who didn't get the mission, but YOU, you truly have the right idea, please come back and fix it."

Of course you're at least going to consider it.

And when that person who comes to you is LITERALLY GOD? Is speaking for God himself at least? Aziraphale would have had to have truly fallen to reject it. And he didn't. He wasn't a demon. He was just an angel who disagreed with current management.

And maybe that's really the difference. A demon is someone who wouldn't drop everything if God invited them back, who wouldn't renounce their rebellion. (But also probably a demon has seen a lot more of the nasty side of God/Heaven.)

Anyway, I just saw something and was like...wait really are people surprised? As soon as the Metatron showed up I was like oh SHIT WAIT.

Like literally the only person in The Mythology who could have more weight than The Metatron would be Jesus. And I'm...somewhat assuming that's how they get around S3 without just going Wow God Sucks Fuck God.

#good omens #good omens meta #good omens s2 #good omens spoilers #good omens S2 spoilers #again I don't go here so I don't see the meta and stuff that much

[profanepurity]

just because I want to make myself cry more, about how old were Liliths’ children when they were killed. Can she also drop her “how to get a hot monster boyfriend(s) in ten steps” YouTube tutorial, I need it for a friend, thanks

I thought this ask might be perfect to give a peek at the WIP for Lilith's character sheet. Adam really did absolutely nothing to have this woman as his wife, and you know what he did? He really took one look at her and said, "Submit". 🤡 Like, ok buddy lol.

But as for your questions, I'm going to answer them under the cut just in case! I'm very excited to answer these 🖤

Tw for under the cut: Mentions of child death, sex, and abuse

How old were Lilith's children when they were killed?

That's a good question, but the answer is a bit uncertain. Stay with me while I give some context lol. If you look at some of the stories about her within Judaic mythology, she is a demon that roams the desert. Specifically in The Book of Isaiah, she is referred to as a "Night Demon" or "The Night Monster" (Isaiah 34:14). This is related to the original interpretation of her being a vengeful spirit that steals and kills children at night, specifically male babies. Now, there is a whole layer of issues that I could get into with this, but I'm going to stick to two main points for this:

Her "reason" for wanting revenge comes from the punishment that God placed on her. When she was found in her cave by God's angels, they tried to force her to come back to the Garden of Eden, which she ran from after refusing to submit to Adam. Because of her disobedience, the children that she has already had, and assumingly will have, will die every day (as some text describes her as either being pregnant or having children with her in the cave when the angels find her). Sometimes there's a number attached to this, like "100 children a day", and we could also get into a whole discussion about demon litters lol, but for now let's run with the fact that every child she had was killed. This leads me to my second point...

Lilith is also described as being the wife of Samael, who in Judaic mythology is the angel of death. I find it really interesting how Lilith is associated heavily with child death, while also being seen as the wife of, essentially, the grim reaper. It is also important to note that the children she is bearing are not clearly identified to be Adam's or Samael's.

Here is my twisted ass take, now finally getting into your question:

I find it very hard to believe that Lilith would refuse to be seen as a sex object for one man, but then run into a marriage with another. Even if, in the time span of her escaping the Garden, she did fall in love with Samael, why would she marry him? The dynamic of marriage within this context and time period was very much so "women are the subordinate" when Lilith's main objective is to be seen as an equal to her partner.

My take is she got with Samael so that he would help her escape the Garden. While Samael is a darker figure, he is still in alignment with God, sometimes even interpreted as one of the 7 archangels.

But weren't angels cast out of heaven for coupling with human women? Yup, but I can also see Samael simply getting a slap on the wrist and dismissed because of his special privilege as "the venom of God", while Lilith gets the full blow of God's wrath, especially if those children weren't his, but Adam's. You can also consider the power dynamic that Samael has over Lilith. It is one thing for her to refuse a man, but to refuse The Angel of Death, as a human woman, is entirely different. What other choice did she have but to agree to be his wife in order to escape?

As for her children, I really don't see how they could have been very old at all when they died. The stories don't give an exact time frame, but it does seem like it took a fair amount of time for the angels to find Lilith in her cave. I can easily see it being around 2-4 years, maybe less. So assuming she got pregnant or was in the early stages of pregnancy when she fled the Garden, her children were probably within that range of years as well.

Now this is really fucked up, but if God's punishment was to have Lilith's children be killed every single day, regardless of the number, that very well might mean she was constantly having children with Samael in order for the curse to continue. Why would she continue having kids knowing the consequence? I'm not going to get too into that, because that is quite dark, but it seems possible considering Samael was still an angel of the Lord, meaning he would also act upon God's will.

Her children were all very young when they died.

“How to get a hot monster boyfriend(s) in ten steps”

Please let me know if you guys would like a comic for this because I would be so down to draw it! I can't wait to show you guys more of the relationship that Lilith has with her Kings.

For now, though, her main tips would be:

Look them in the eyes when they try to scare you. Once they see you are not afraid, they will stop baring their teeth.

Make sure they are well fed, and that their needs are taken care of properly. It's important to take care of your pets.

Remind them that they are not monsters to you, but the ones that showed you what love is supposed to look like.

I hope this doesn't make you cry too much, anon 🖤💐

#praeteritum au #lilith #demons #archangel samael #character sheet #asks answered #asks are always appreciated #tw mentions of sex #tw mentions of abuse #tw mentions of death #cw child death

[primordialchoice]

Independent & Fandomless interpretation of the mythological, religious and astrological figure LILITH, inspired by Mesopotomanian and Judaic mythology. Open to be adapted to your fandom and verses. | 18+ | Multiverse | Multiship | Written by KOTYS [CARRD]

#selfpromo. #hell rp #demon rp #angel rp #mythology rp

[haggishlyhagging]

“The Celtic-Druidic influence is far greater in our modern lives than is generally realized. It is from the Druids that most Christians derive their belief in the survival of the soul and in the guardian angels as spirits of the beloved dead. Hesiod, "the poet of the matriarchates," in the eighth century B.C. wrote of the belief in angels as the guardian spirits of the dead, a concept which was no longer entertained by the Greeks of the classical age. The idea of the survival of the soul in angel form was no doubt common to the original religion and was preserved only among the Celts. What Gerard Murphy calls the "strange loveliness of Celtic mythology" may have its foundation in the fact that Celtic myth is the last echo of the primal universal religion of the matriarchal age—a religion that remains buried deep in the subconscious of modern man as part of his very psyche.

These ideas are denied and discouraged by Christianity, as they were by Judaism. Saint Paul insists that our only hope for survival lies in the resurrection of the body at the last judgment; and the Old Testament, like Egyptian Atonism, teaches that there is no immortality of any kind. In Christian and Judaic angel-lore, both derived from Persian cosmogony, the angels represent a completely separate creation — never human, and only half divine. Moreover, in Christian belief the angels are masculine, whereas in the early Greek and Celtic religions the angels, the spirits or animae of the dead, are always feminine.”

-Elizabeth Gould Davis, The First Sex

#Elizabeth Gould Davis #celtic mythology #druidry #feminist spirituality #angel mythology

[alephskoteinos]

In the sacred world of Christianity nothing was allowed to survive which clearly confessed the fundamental nature of sin or transgression. The devil-angel or god of transgression (of disobedience and revolt)-was driven out of the world of the divine. Its origin was a divine one, but in the Christian order of things (which prolonged Judaic mythology) transgression was the basis not of his divinity but of his fall. The devil had fallen from divine favour which he had possessed only to lose. He had not become profane, strictly speaking: he retained a supernatural character because of the sacred world he came from. But no effect was spared to deprive him of the consequences of his religious quality. The cult that no doubt still persisted, a survival from the days of impure divinities, was stamped out. Death by fire was in store for anyone who refused to obey and who found in sin a sacred power and a sense of the divine. Nothing could stop Satan from being divine, but this enduring truth was denied with the rigours of torment.

- Georges Bataille, Erotism, page 121

#satan #satanism #left hand path #georges bataille

[rojinsart]

“Lady Lilith”

Painter: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Style: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Aestheticism, Oil Year: 1866-73 Themes: Beauty, Youth, Mythology Notes: Lady Lilith is an oil painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti first painted in 1866–1868 using his mistress Fanny-Cornforth as the model, then altered in 1872–73 to show the face of Alexa Wilding. The subject is Lilith, who was, according to ancient Judaic myth, "the first wife of Adam" and is associated with the seduction of men and the murder of children. She is shown as a "powerful and evil temptress" and as "an iconic, Amazon-like female with long, flowing hair."

Rossetti overpainted Cornforth's face, perhaps at the suggestion of his client, shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland, who displayed the painting in his drawing room with five other Rossetti "stunners." After Leyland's death, the painting was purchased by Samuel Bancroft and Bancroft's estate donated it in 1935 to the Delaware Art Museum where it is now displayed.

The painting forms a pair with Sibylla Palmifera, painted 1866–1870, also with Wilding as the model.  Lady Lilithrepresents the body's beauty, according to Rossetti's sonnet inscribed on the frame.  Sibylla Palmifera represents the soul's beauty, according to the Rossetti sonnet on its frame.

A large 1867 replica of Lady Lilith, painted by Rossetti in watercolor, which shows the face of Cornforth, is now owned by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. It has a verse from Goethe’s Faust as translated by Shelley on a label attached by Rossetti to its frame:

"Beware of her fair hair, for she excells All women in the magic of her locks, And when she twines them round a young man's neck she will not ever set him free again."

More: Lady Lilith

[sapio-sensual-affair]

Lilith is a female figure in Mesopotamian and Judaic mythology, alternatively the first wife of Adam and supposedly the primordial she-demon. Lilith is cited as having been "banished" from the Garden of Eden for not complying with and obeying Adam. 

[jjellydonutzzofficial]

Just quickly jotting something down for some My Friendly Neighborhood-related OCs

Working on some designs for my versions of the Unfriendly Neighbors. Do they count as OCs? Honestly, I've been in fandoms since I was technically ten years old, and now at the ripe age of 22, I can safely say: I have no clue.

But if not, I could twist them into original designs.

While I work on the designs, here were some names that I thought would be cool for them:

Unfriendly Norman - Nightjar Reasoning: Most of these puppets have alliterative names, but I thought something relating to the newfound dark nature of this Unfriendly puppet would be great. It's a standard trope in horror that we associate the night with frights (haha), so something relating to that was something in mind. Nightjar, specifically, is a name taken from nocturnal birds of the same name (some species of which are classified as owls).

Unfriendly Junebug - Jade Reasoning: Once again, alliteration, but when you hear Ricky drop the lore that some of the puppets' minds were twisted by the horrors they saw on television, you could argue that some of them were "jaded" by what they saw.

Unfriendly Lenard: Lenore Reasoning: Similar to how Lenore from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was considered to be someone precious who was lost, so is Unfriendly Lenard, now dubbed Lenore, now fallen from their former self. She is the closest to her Friendly counterpart, though tends to follow the others in attacking Gordon because of the hive mind habit. I headcanon both Lenard and his unfriendly counterpart to be genderfluid/nonbinary, using any pronouns and comfortably expressing themselves through their relaxed personalities in how they dress no matter what naysayers try to say and do.

Unfriendly Liliana: Lilith Reasoning: In Judaic mythology, Lilith is allegedly Adam's first wife, banished and shunned and, in turn, becoming the first she-demon, because she did not comply with Adam. Similar to this religious/mythical/Biblical counterpart, Lilith embraced the darkness within her, and due to this, was exiled to the Unfriendly Neighborhood because she wouldn't - and couldn't - be what the other, less scathed puppets expected her to be.

Unfriendly George: Ghost Reasoning: Unfriendly George became fascinated with death when he saw the bad TV shows, realizing that, for most, at least, it was inevitable. He wondered how it would be to be a spirit, a ghost, free of the pains and troubles that plague his mind.

My art isn't the best, but I hope to post some design ideas for these Unfriendly fellas soon. Thanks for taking the time to read this, I had a lot of fun writing and researching name ideas. Until next time, ciao!

#my friendly neighborhood #my friendly neighborhood unfriendly puppets #the unfriendly neighborhood #mfn norman #mfn lenard #mfn junebug #mfn liliana #mfn george #mfn gordon