Patch : Lilith Not An eve

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Be a Lilith 

Not an Eve

If you have heard of Lilith before this, you perhaps have only heard the mythological stories about her being the mother of demons. This is the more well known version that people have witnessed in movies, tv shows, or read in books. Lilith is typically portrayed as evil, manipulative, and deceptive. This idea that she is evil however, stems from the notion that when Lilith left Adam, she was actually given the chance to go back to him and live a blissful, yet obedient life as his wife in Eden, but when she refused, she was punished. Her punishment was to be cast into the “night”, and that all of her children would die. Demons being referred to as “creatures of the night”, and Lilith being the first “creature of the night”, is thus where the theory that Lilith is the mother of demons comes from.

Unfortunately, poor Adam just couldn’t handle Lilith. Again, there are many different versions of this story, but the basic telling is that Adam wanted Lilith to be subservient to him, and to “lie beneath” him, but Lilith argued that they were equals and perhaps Adam should “lie beneath” her. As you can imagine, Adam wasn’t too happy about that, and thus Lilith ran away from Eden to have her own freedom. The story goes on to say that Adam whined about Lilith leaving him, wanting God to make him another woman, and that’s when Eve was created — a lesser version of Adam, more compliant and not as clever.

If you have heard of Lilith before this, you perhaps have only heard the mythological stories about her being the mother of demons. This is the more well known version that people have witnessed in movies, tv shows, or read in books. Lilith is typically portrayed as evil, manipulative, and deceptive. This idea that she is evil however, stems from the notion that when Lilith left Adam, she was actually given the chance to go back to him and live a blissful, yet obedient life as his wife in Eden, but when she refused, she was punished. Her punishment was to be cast into the “night”, and that all of her children would die. Demons being referred to as “creatures of the night”, and Lilith being the first “creature of the night”, is thus where the theory that Lilith is the mother of demons comes from.

Lilith was even given the option to return, and knowing that she would be punished and cast into the darkness, still seemed a better option to her than living the remainder of her life as a compliant and enslaved woman to man. Of course, we weren’t told that story. It got lost in time and forgotten, or perhaps it was purposely removed from most records. Better to let women always think that they are lesser than man, and that man came first and is therefore more important, than to even let women know at all that they were originally created equal to man. Men would just prefer we aren’t aware of our strength at all in the first place, than to have to deal with our defiance and punish us for it.