Lilith's true story?

Question

Im kinda confussed,wich one's Lilith's true story??? ive read that she is Samael's wife,also that she is part of the Satanic Trinity,another one is that She was the first wife of Adam,another could be the mother of Cain,and also the serpent that tempted adam and eva....so,wich one is it?,i know for sure that she's the queen of the night

Answer 1

Lillith was Adam's first wife, created at the same time as him, to be his equal.  When that was unacceptable to Adam, Lillith went off by herself and mothered demons.

The story of Lillith as Adam's first wife first appears in a small collection of epigrams and moral tales known as the "Alphabet of Ben Sira". (This work dates from medieval times; it was not authored by the Ben Sira who lived during the Second Temple period.) A brief passage there tells how, before Eve was created from Adam's rib, G-d first created from the earth a wife for Adam named Lillith. She and Adam immediately started fighting because she demanded full equality; she soon fled and became a demoness who preyed on newborn children. (The demoness Lillith is mentioned in much earlier sources, but her connection to Adam is first found in this story.)http://www.torah.org/qanda/seequanda.php...

Stories of Lillith - http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/hypostas.h...

God named the man whom he had created Adam, and He placed him in the Paradise which He had created on the third day. Another had been created with Adam out of the dust of the earth. This was the woman Lillith. Lillith lived with Adam in Paradise. But she exalted herself over him, knowing that he and she had been made out of the same dust of the earth. And Lillith was able to pronounce the Ineffable Name, and pronouncing it she caused herself to vanish from the sight of Adam. Thereafter she made herself a demoness.

Then Adam was cast into a deep sleep; a rib was taken from his side, and out of this rib God formed a woman to be Adam's wife, and this woman was Eve. Adam was given the east and the north of Paradise http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/omw/omw2...

Answer 2

Lilith was the granddaughter of Enlil, daughter of his son, Nergal of the Underworld. She was therefore of pure Annunaki stock, and refused therefore to be Adam's permanent mate. In fact, she was the consort of Enki, Cain's father together they produced Cain's wife Luluwa.

Answer 3

i think Lilith is Adams first wife and the mother of the other people the Bible refers to, as 'the other people. but never by name. Like Cane's wife or  Able's wife. It is said that, she turned against God. If she did that she might have turned to Satan. That would make her the 'Queen of the Night'.That would also make the mother of all that is evil. like Vampires , Werewolfes and other Demons. well thats what I think.

Answer 4

Many of the stories you've mentioned are true simply because there are more than one Lilith. There is Lilith the Mesopotamian goddess of Storms, Lilith,the mythological first wife of Adam, Lilith, the feminine dark side of the divine  (which DOES NOT make her a part of a "Satanic Trinity") and Lilith, the wife of Samael.

Answer 5

According to Encyclopedia Mythica

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/l/lilit...

Lilith is a female demon of the night who supposedly flies around searching for newborn children either to kidnap or strangle them. Also, she sleeps with men to seduce them into propagating demon sons. Legends told about Lilith are ancient. The rabbinical myths of Lilith being Adam's first wife seem to relate to the Sumero-Babylonian Goddess Belit-ili, or Belili. To the Canaanites, Lilith was Baalat, the "Divine Lady." On a tablet from Ur, ca. 2000 BCE, she was addressed as Lillake.

One story is that God created Adam and Lilith as twins joined together at the back. She demanded equality with Adam, failing to achieve it, she left him in anger. This is sometimes accompanied by a Muslim legend that after leaving Adam, Lilith slept with Satan, thus creating the demonic Djinn.

In another version of the myth of Lilith, she was Adam's first wife before Eve. Adam married her because he became tired of coupling with animals, a common Middle-Eastern herdsmen practice, though the Old Testament declared it a sin (Deuteronomy 27:21). Adam tried to make Lilith lie beneath him during sexual intercourse. Lilith would not meet this demand of male dominance. She cursed Adam and hurried to her home by the Red Sea.

Adam complained to God who then sent three angels, Sanvi, Sansanvi and Semangelaf, to bring Lilith back to Eden. Lilith rebuffed the angels by cursing them. While by the Red Sea Lilith became a lover to demons and producing 100 babies a day. The angels said that God would take these demon children away from her unless she returned to Adam. When she did not return, she was punished accordingly. And, God also gave Adam the docile Eve.

According to some Lilith's fecundity and sexual preferences showed she was a Great Mother of settled agricultural tribes, who resisted the invasions of the nomadic herdsmen, represented by Adam. It is felt the early Hebrews disliked the Great Mother who drank the blood of Abel, the herdsman, after being slain by the elder god of agriculture and smithcraft, Cain (Genesis 4:11). Lilith's Red Sea is but another version of Kali Ma's Ocean of Blood, which gave birth to all things but needed periodic sacrificial replenishment.

Speculation is that perhaps there was a connection between Lilith and the Etruscan divinity Lenith, who possessed no face and waited at the gate of the underworld along with Eita and Persipnei (Hecate and Persephone) to receive the souls of the dead. The underworld gate was a yoni, and also a lily, which had "no face." Admission into the underworld was frequently mythologized as a sexual union. (see Tantrism) The lily or lilu (lotus) was the Great Mother's flower-yoni, whose title formed Lilith's name.

Even though the story of Lilith disappeared from the canonical Bible, her daughters the lilim haunted men for over a thousand years. It was well into that Middle Ages that Jews still manufactured amulets to keep away the lilim. Supposedly they were lusty she-demons who copulated with men in all their dreams, causing nocturnal emissions.

The Greeks adopted the belief of the lilim, calling them Lamiae, Empusae (Forcers-In), or Daughters of Hecate. Likewise the Christians adopted the belief, calling them harlots of h**l, or succubi, the counterpart of the incubi. Celebrant monks attempted to fend them off by sleeping with their hands over their genitals, clutching a crucifix.

Even though most of the Lilith legend is derived from Jewish folklore, descriptions of the Lilith demon appear in Iranian, Babylonian, Mexican, Greek, Arab, English, German, Oriental and Native American legends. Also, she sometimes has been associated with legendary and mythological characters such as the Queen of Sheba and Helen of Troy. In medieval Europe she was proclaimed to be the wife, concubine or grandmother of Satan.

Men who experienced nocturnal emissions during their sleep believed they had been seduced by Lilith and said certain incantations to prevent the offspring from becoming demons. It was thought each time a pious Christian had a wet dream, Lilith laughed. It was believed that Lilith was assisted in her bloodthirsty nocturnal quests by succubi, who gathered with her near the "mountains of darkness" to frolic with her demon lover Samael, whole name means "poison of God" (sam-el). The Zohar, the principal work of the Kabbalah, describes Lilith's powers at their height during the waning of the moon.

According to legend Lilith's attraction for children comes from the belief that God took her demon children from her when she did not return to Adam. It was believed that she launched a reign of terror against women in childbirth and newborn infants, especially boys. However, it also was believed that the three angels who were sent to fetch her by the Red Sea forced her to swear that whenever she saw their names or images on amulets that she would leave the infants and mothers alone.

These beliefs continued for centuries. As late as the 18th century, it was a common practice in many cultures to protect new mothers and their infants with amulets against Lilith. Males were most vulnerable during the first week of life, girls during the first three weeks. Sometimes a magic circle was drawn around the lying-in-bed, with a charm inscribed with the names of the three angels, Adam and Eve and the words "barring Lilith" or "protect this newborn child from all harm." Frequently amulets were place in the four corners and throughout the bedchamber. If a child laughed while sleeping, it was taken as a sign that Lilith was present. Tapping the child on the nose, it was believed, made her go away.

Answer 6

I don't think i remembered reading lilith as adam's first wife in genesis. And the tempter snake was reffered to as serpent only not lilith.

I've heard about her but i don't know anything about her really.

Answer 7

“G-d created the Garden of Eden, and in all its beauty continued to create a being in G-d’s own likeness. From soot and clay G-d created Adam, and all was good. Lonely was Adam thereafter, and soon G-d sought to make him a partner. G-d created woman for Adam, from not limb (Eve) but from soot and clay, as Adam was. G-d called her Lilith and all was good. Soon after, the newly created began to fight with one another. Lilith refused to lie beneath Adam during the course of copulation arguing that she would not lay beneath him, rather atop, signifying them as equals (insisting so with evidence that they were both made the Holy One of soot and clay). Adam defended that Lilith was only fit to lay beneath this, since she was made to consume Adams loneliness, and therefore, he was superior to her. In disgust and anger Lilith called upon G-d's infallible name and fled the garden. Upset and pained, Adam prayed to the Holy One, 'Sovereign of the universe!' he said, 'the woman you gave me has run away.' At once, the Holy One, blessed be He, sent three angels to bring her back to the Garden. When Lilith heard word that Adam still continued to believe Lilith to be his lesser, she refused to return to the garden with the angels. Upon her decision to never return, she was given a definite curse which made her one of the most treacherous of demon.”

Answer 8

You certainly have alot of info now, so you probably don't need my little amount of info, but Lilith wanted me to answer and what Lilith wants she gets. Lilith is an ancient Mesopotamian/Sumerian etc Goddess (she was worshiped in many places under many names) she in the epitome of Feminine Power and was often depicted as a snake or snake-like, her part in the bible (more in Judaism myth rather than Christianity) was Adams first wife. she refused to lay beneath Adam during intercourse, instead wanting them to lay side by side as equals so she was banished. The myth of her then being the snake that tempted eve was a way of vilifying  Feminine Power in the new religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) She is a very powerful and forceful goddess ( i have had alot of contact with her) and that is probably why Satanists chose her to be in their trinity.