Lilith's topics are liberty, courage, playfulness, passion, pleasure and sexuality. Lilith symbol is an apple. In Hebrew legends, Lilith is a dangerously beautiful Goddess who refused to weak Herself into Adam, believing She was created as an equivalent. This makes Lilith possibly the first true liberationist, and She resolves to create modern life similarly equal for all people. She also boldly instructs us to stand up for what we believe in, unbridled and courageous, no matter the cost. According to legend, Lilith was turned away from paradise for Her 'crime', and She has been depicted in art as a demon.
Leap Year occurs every four years to keep our calendar in sync with the solar calendar year. Customarily, women break loose today, asking guys out or telling union. In the modern liberal society, actions such as this are not overly surprising. Nonetheless, Lilith charges us with the duty of ever searching after equality, not only for women but for all of earth's people. If there's someone you've wronged with presupposition or bias, make amends today.
To internalize Lilith's fairness, bravery, or exuberant lustiness, eat an apple now. Quite literally take a bite out of life, and revel in some daring activity to its fullest without guilt or fear.
Like Lilith, you are the master of your destiny!
(Patricia Telesco, “365 Goddess: a daily guide to the magic and inspiration of the goddess”.)
Lilith dates back into the bird-serpent Goddess of all antiquity. In Sumeria, She had been portrayed as with both the claws and wings of a bird. Some reliefs reveal Her lower half as being the body of a serpent or She is shown as a serpent with the head and breasts of a woman. There are many possibilities as to Her ancient Goddess names: Belil-ili, Belili, Lillake, or Ninlil. She was a Goddess of agriculture in Addition to the "hand of Inanna". She was said to live in the trunk of this Huluppu-tree:
‘Then a serpent that couldn't be charmed
Made its nest in the roots of the huluppu-tree.
The Anzu-bird put his young in the branches of the tree.
And the dark maid Lilith built her home in the back.’
Lilith also helped women in childbirth and nursed infants.
Recent translations of Her name are varied and range from ‘screech owl’, lilah which is darkness or night in Hebrew, to Lilitu which is said to be the Babylonian word for ‘evil night-spirit.’
Her symbols are the crossroad, owl, serpent, tree, and dark moon.
The Hebrew Lilith
When Jewish patriarchy overtook the territory, they made Lilith evil so as to stop the people from worshipping Her. In Kabbalistic tradition, Lilith has been forced the first wife of Adam. Some sources say that Lilith was Adam's soul wife. Other sources claim that Lilith was fashioned from the ground at either the same time as Adam or before Adam. This created Lilith Adam's equal. As Adam's equal, Lilith refused to lie on Her back while Adam took the dominant position in sex (missionary style). Lilith believed that they ought to make love as equals (the beast with two backs). Adam was adamantly against this, desiring his wife to be submissive, and Lilith left the Garden of Eden.
God then supposedly gave Adam Eve, a docile girl of the flesh. Finally, Lilith was portrayed as the foe of Eve. It was Lilith in serpent type who seduced Eve to eat the fruit of knowledge. No doubt the very first wife wanted the second wife to determine what a jerk Adam was and that Lilith also wanted Eve to open her eyes and come back in the fulness of herself, her womanhood. In this time, Lilith was believed to have induced nocturnal emissions from Adam (night hag). These children of Lilith were called Lilin or even Lilim, 'night-demons.'
The Goddess who formerly protected mothers and infants was now portrayed as a demoness who headed abortions and killed babies in their sleep. The Jewish people felt that when a baby laughed or smiled in its sleep, it had been amused by Lilith, and the parents would quickly bop the infant on the nose to divert the infant from the Goddess. It was also believed that She arrived to kids in the shape of an owl and drank their blood.
Despite the Jewish efforts to erradicate this ancient Goddess, She can nevertheless be found in Her truer, albeit symbolic, shape in their own literature: 'During a very long and dangerous confinement take ground in the crossroads, write upon it the five first verses of this Psalm, and put it upon the belly of the parturient; let it remain until the arrival is achieved, but no longer...
Lilith and Sexuality
Goddess Lilith, as 'hand of Inanna,' would collect men from the streets and direct them to the temples of the sacred prostitutes. Instead She chose to have sex with "evil" spirits and beget more demons. (Who could blame Her?) Lilith was comfortable with Her sexuality, something which terrified that the Jewish patriarch who thought that only having sex for enjoyment was a form of abortion. Recently, Lilith has morphed to the succubus and incubus or the night hag who sits on the chests of men and causes them to have perverse dreams so that they will ejaculate. She could take the Kind of either a man or a woman:
‘. . .who appear to mankind, to men in the likeness of women, and to women in the likeness of men, and with men they lie by night and by day.’
Men dread Lilith because She knows the power of Her sexuality and She knows that Her heritage has power over guys. Much like Circe, She turns men into beasts or pigs by opening the doors to their deep and primal sexual desires. Such desires are prohibited by the Jewish and Christian cults. Women, who are like the submissive Eve, also fear Lilith because of the power She holds. However, as has been shown in the myth of the garden of Eden, Lilith isn't an enemy of womankind. She retains the ancient fruit of knowledge, the secrets of the deepest sexual nature, and She is prepared to offer you this fruit to us.