Are You Eve or Lilith?
Who is Lilith and where did her story come from? The earliest accounts of Lilith are not biblical or Jewish but predate the Abrahamic stories by thousands of years.
Stories of lilu and lilitu, male and female malevolent spirits appear in the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. The Mesopotamian goddess Lamashtu was a winged demon that tormented women during childbirth, caused miscarriages, and stole breastfeeding infants. Assyrian myths also had “L” named malicious and capricious spirits. They all had one thing in common; they looked for people at their most vulnerable, especially pregnant women and newborns, in an age when infant and maternal mortality was extremely high, and humans created supernatural explanations to explain what they could not.
The Abrahamic religions created their own versions of the “L” malevolent spirit as well. Nearly all Christian as well as Jewish stories have roots in older civilizations from the region.
The book of Genesis has two separate accounts of the creation of humans. In Genesis 1:27, the bible states that god created man and woman at the same time. Male and female created he them. However in Genesis 2, it says that god created Adam first, from the dust of the earth, and after Adam named the animals, he was lonely and asked god for a help mate, and god caused a deep sleep to come on Adam, and he removed a rib from Adam and…
