Lillith

An ancient legend that was well known from Jewish folklore the work known as the Alphabet of Ben Sirah, around the 8th–10th Century . The name Lillithn roughly translated to “bad wind;” the ill wind that blows misfortune. Lillith was said to be Adam’s first wife, G-d created her from the same dust from which Adam was molded, at the same time, making them equal. Gen. 1:27 “So G-d created man in his own image, in the image of G-d created He him; male and female created He them”. Lilith is described as refusing to assume a subservient role to Adam during sexual intercourse and so deserting him ("She said, 'I will not lie below,' and he said, 'I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.'"). Lilith promptly uttered the name of G-d, took to the air, and left the garden, settling on the Red Sea coast. G-d had sent three angels in pursuit of Lilith. After that she mated with archangel Samael, who had taken her as his bride. This places Lilith in a unique position, for she left the garden of her own accord and before the Fall of Man, and so is untouched by the Tree of Knowledge. They angels made threats to kill one hundred of Lilith's demonic children for each day she stayed away, she countered that she would prey eternally upon the descendants of Adam and Eve, who could be saved only by invoking the names of the three angels. She did not return to Adam.
Samael was important archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore, a figure that is accuser, seducer and destroyer, and has been regarded as both good and evil. It is said that he was the guardian angel of Esau and a patron of the Roman empire. Samael is known as one of the seven archangels: seven archangels are Anael, Gabriel , Michael, Oriphiel, Raphael, Samael and Zachariel. They are all believed to have a special assignment to act as a global Zeitgeist ('time spirit'), each for periods of about 380 years. Michael has been the leading time spirit. Four important archangels are also supposed to display periodic spiritual activity over the seasons: Raphael during the spring, Uriel during the summer, Michael during the autumn, and Gabriel during the winter. In anthroposophy, archangels may be good or evil.
Then G-d created Eve to be Adam's mate, taken from the rib of Adam's body, she will be submissive to man. Since Lilith choose to mate with Samael it was said she was the ‘serpent’ in the garden and that it was a ‘sexual’ sin of partaking of forbidden fruit. In rabbinic literature Lilith is describe as the mother of Adam's demonic offspring; Gen. 3:15 “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; (his partaking with Eve his second wife). Gen. 2:23 “And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Gen 3: 20 “And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.”
A Hebrew tradition exists in which an amulet is placed around the neck of newborn boys in order to protect them from the Lilith until their circumcision. Also a Hebrew tradition to wait a while before a boy's hair is cut so as to attempt to trick Lilith into thinking the child is a girl so that the boy's life may be spared. Lilith's name also appears in a list of demonic creatures in the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q510 frag. 11.4-6a; frag. 10.1f), in a passage referring to Isaiah 34:14. The word "Lilith" appears several times in the Talmud. In Tractate Niddah 24b it refers to a winged human, while in Erubin 100b it refers to female with long hair.
Today to guard against Lilith, mothers would hang four amulets, one on the wall of each room of a newborn babe, with the inscription "Lilith - abi!" ("Lilith - begone!")
The only reference to Lilith in the Bible (Old or New Testaments) is Isaiah 34:14, it's a description of desolation, jackals and ravens among nettles and briers, etc.: "Goat demons shall greet each other; there too Lilith will repose." Most of the other creatures referenced in this poetry cannot be positively identified. The KJV, following the Vulgate, translates "the Lilith" as "the night demon," confusing the lili- with the Hebrew word for night. The notion of a Lilith as a demon is probably Assyrian, they had three female demons, Lilit, Lilu,and Ardat Lilit. There's little doubt that the Hebrew Lilith-demon mentioned in Isaiah was a folkloric adaptation of the Assyrian demons.
And ever since, Lilith flies around the world, howling her hatred of mankind through the night, and vowing vengeance because of the shabby treatment she had received from Adam. She is also called "The Howling One."
Truth or a myth? It is said the reason the for-fathers did not add this to the canonical books was because it showed women were created in equal standing, the same reason for other books that were well known back then that were written by women. Rabbinical interpretation is a strange thing to most modern Christians. The ancient scribes and Rabbis assumed that their sacred literature held cryptic meanings placed there by G-d. Biblical contradictions are an embarrassment to modern fundamentalists, but to the ancient scholars they acted as keyholes through which a hidden meaning might be glimpsed. Holes in the story could be used to tell new stories, and thereby wring a little more meaning out of the text.
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