Lilith: First Wife or Evil Spirit?

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5 min readJun 17, 2021

We’re sought to examine Lilith, a ravening brutality in the likeness of a winged spirit who preyed on pregnant women and infants. Lilith is first mentioned in Babylonian demonology found in the epic of Gilgamesh and the Huluppu-Tree, a Sumerian epic poem found on a tablet at Ur. Lilith anecdotally appears in the Bible for evaluating what this society had been already accessible, a wilderness demon shunned by the prophet Isaiah.

וּפָגְשׁ֤וּ צִיִּים֙ אֶת־אִיִּ֔ים וְשָׂעִ֖יר עַל־רֵעֵ֣הוּ יִקְרָ֑א אְַ־שָׁם֙ הִרְגִּ֣יעָה לִּילִ֔ית וּמָצְאָ֥ה לָ֖הּ מָנֽוֹחַ׃

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