151b; b. Baba Bathra 73ab, Kabbalist References: Zohar 3:76b77a; Zohar Sitrei Torah 1:147b148b; Zohar 2:267b; Bacharach,'Emeq haMelekh, 19c; Zohar 3:19a; Bacharach,'Emeq haMelekh, 102d103a; Zohar 1:54b55a, Dead Sea Scroll References: 4QSongs of the Sage/4QShir; 4Q510 frag.11.46a//frag.10.1f; 11QPsAp, Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants, "Finding Lilith: The Most Powerful Hag In History", Collection of Lilith information and links, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lilith&oldid=1139992560, (the) night-demon Lilith, evil and rapacious (, "[Expounding upon the curses of womanhood] In a, "For gira he should take an arrow of Lilith and place it point upwards and pour water on it and drink it. [92], Lilith is a poem by Vladimir Nabokov, written in 1928. A 15th or 16th century Kabbalah text states that God has "cooled" the female Leviathan, meaning that he has made Lilith infertile and she is a mere fornication. Deciphering Jewish Manuscripts . These talismans invoke the names of the angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, or sometimes the prophet Elijah, in order to protect young children from the grasp of Lilith. angels and Lilith is the basis for writing the names Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semange-lof on amulets hung around the necks of new-born babes: when Lilith sees the names, she remembers her . With her major characteristics having been well developed by the end of the Talmudic period, after six centuries had elapsed between the Aramaic incantation texts that mention Lilith and the early Spanish Kabbalistic writings in the 13th century, she reappears, and her life history becomes known in greater mythological detail. Magical amulet, to be hung up it seems (scalloped top edge, like a plaque), with the formula "Senoy Sansenoy Semangelof Adam ve-Hava Lilit u." Same scalloped top edge and same text as AIU VI.B.31. One mentions her creation as being before Adam's, on the fifth day, because the "living creatures" with whose swarms God filled the waters included Lilith. And she also afflicts him with sickness, and he knows it not, and all this takes place when the moon is on the wane.[74]. During this time "Pizna", either an alternate name for Lilith or a daughter of hers, desires his beauty and seduces him against his will. It made its way to the Land of Israel from Egypt around 541-542 AD. [75] Gershom Scholem proposes that the author of the Zohar, Rabbi Moses de Leon, was aware of both the folk tradition of Lilith and another conflicting version, possibly older. She gives birth to multitudes of djinns and demons, the first of them being named Agrimas. Moses responds to a threat by God that He will destroy the Israelite people. Again playing on the Hebrew phrase zot hapaam, Adam, according to the same midrash, declares: "it is she [zot] who is destined to strike the bell [zog] and to speak [in strife] against me, as you read, 'a golden bell [paamon] and a pomegranate' [Exodus 28:34] it is she who will trouble me [mefaamtani] all night" (Genesis Rabbah 18:4). Occasionally, a piece of paper with magic spells writ-ten on it was hung by the child's bed. Such an amulet would have been attached to the wall or door of the birthroom to protect the occupants. Found in the wild waters The message was delivered She declined their offer Thus refused to return. Another interesting text can be found in a manuscript which is part of the Bill Gross Collection and which received the rather generic title, Prayers Against the Plague. Senoy, Sansenoy & Semangelof symbols. All who go to her cannot return The poem and the picture appeared together alongside Rossetti's painting Sibylla Palmifera and the sonnet Soul's Beauty. however, sent after her three angels-Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof by name,11 who soon located her in the same wild waters in which the Egyptians were to drown in the days of the Exodus. The female side was Lilith, whereupon she flew to the Cities of the Sea and attacked humankind. [70] The marriage of archangel Samael and Lilith was arranged by Tanin'iver ("Blind Dragon"), who is the counterpart of "the dragon that is in the sea". She was notorious for being a vampiric spirit and loved sucking men's blood. (16) Look in the book of the LORD and read: No one of these shall be lacking, For the mouth of the LORD has ordered it, and His spirit shall gather them there. Nebuchadnezzar sets forth various ordeals for Ben Sira, who responds with 22 stories. Ben Sira is presented as the son of Jeremiah, born to the prophet's own daughter who dipped in a mikveh into which Jeremiah was previously forced to lay seed. The charm in fact consists of two different amulets joined together, one on top and one below. Blair. In many 17th century Kabbalistic books, this seems to be a reinterpretation of an old Talmudic myth where God castrated the male Leviathan and slew the female Leviathan in order to prevent them from mating and thereby destroying the Earth with their offspring. Under the threat of death, Eve admits that she never loved Adam, while Lilith confesses that she always loved him: As the worst of the venom left my lips, The three angels were made popular by the Alphabet of ben Sirah, while the illustrations of their images in various amulets also contributed to their fame. The only true symbolic references ever used for Senoy , Sansenoy, and Semangelof were their names as insribed in bed posts, amulets, doorways. A few lines in Yiddish are followed by the dialogue between the prophet Elijah and Lilith when he met her with her host of demons to kill the mother and take her new-born child ('to drink her blood, suck her bones and eat her flesh'). She sets out towards Sheol. In the 10th century text known as the Alphabet of ben Sirah, we find the story of Adam and Lilith. Charles Leland associated Aradia with Lilith: Aradia, says Leland, is Herodias, who was regarded in stregheria folklore as being associated with Diana as chief of the witches. This is the earliest Jewish amulet to appear in print. Numbers Rabbah, in: Judaic Classics Library, Davka Corporation, 1999. In Hebrew-language texts, the term lilith or lilit (translated as "night creatures", "night monster", "night hag", or "screech owl") first occurs in a list of animals in Isaiah 34. It made its way to the Land of Israel from Egypt around 541-542 AD. Moses pleads before God, that God should not be like Lilith who kills her own children. The eyes are very large, as well as the hands (if depicted). Senoy, Sansenoy and Smangeluf (sometimes written Semangelof, or Snvi, Snsnvi and Smnglof) are three guarding angels in the Jewish mythology. First published in 1883, the poem uses the traditional myths surrounding the triad of Adam, Eve, and Lilith. That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, (In English: Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof). The Black Suitcase of Magical Amulets with a Mysterious History. The names Senoy and Sansenoy are mentioned several times in first century Hebrew texts and they can also be found on an incantation bowl discovered at Nippur in modern-day Iraq. The manuscript ends with a dedication to a young man: Yosef Tzemach Gabriel Donati, Over time, the Hebrew word for plague Magefa () has come to be associated with other meanings as well. According to occult practises, she would be subject to the demon-king Murrah al-Abyad, which appears to be another name for Iblis used in magical writings. Up to medieval times, Jewish people often kept amulets to . Another passage charges Lilith as being a tempting serpent of Eve. The text notes the name of the amulets buyer: Sylman Ben Katton, for the protection of the people in his home., On an incantation bowl kept at the National Library, which was inscribed in antiquity, long before the ben Sirah stories of the Middle Ages, we find the same narrative which appears on amulets protecting new mothers. The issue of these unions were demons and spirits called "the plagues of humankind", and the usual added explanation was that it was through Adam's own sin that Lilith overcame him against his will. If you placed an amulet with the name of the 3 Angels on it, and placed it on the baby, lilith could not harm it. [75], A copy of Jean de Pauly's translation of the Zohar in the Ritman Library contains an inserted late 17th century printed Hebrew sheet for use in magical amulets where the prophet Elijah confronts Lilith. [84], In Mandaean scriptures such as the Ginza Rabba and Qolasta, liliths (Classical Mandaic: ) are mentioned as inhabitants of the World of Darkness. [77], The sheet contains two texts within borders, which are amulets, one for a male ('lazakhar'), the other one for a female ('lanekevah'). [84] One source states simply that she is a daughter of the goddess Hecate, another, that Lamia was subsequently cursed by the goddess Hera to have stillborn children because of her association with Zeus; alternatively, Hera slew all of Lamia's children (except Scylla) in anger that Lamia slept with her husband, Zeus. [Here is] your divorce and writ and letter of separation, sent through holy angels. The three failed in their mission; Lilith claimed that the great demon has already come upon her, referring to Samael, and could therefore no longer return to Adam. Whether this particular tradition is older is not known. At this point, the three angels enter the picture. As with the Massoretic text of Isaiah 34:14, and therefore unlike the plural liliyyot (or liliyyoth) in the Isaiah scroll 34:14, lilit in 4Q510 is singular, this liturgical text both cautions against the presence of supernatural malevolence and assumes familiarity with Lilith; distinct from the biblical text, however, this passage does not function under any socio-political agenda, but instead serves in the same capacity as An Exorcism (4Q560) and Songs to Disperse Demons (11Q11). [12] For example, in the 13th-century writings of Isaac ben Jacob ha-Cohen, Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she had coupled with the archangel Samael. 19. The two twin androgynous couples resembled each other and both "were like the image of Above"; that is, that they are reproduced in a visible form of an androgynous deity. A way of resolving the apparent discrepancy between these two accounts was to assume that there must have been some other first woman, apart from the one later identified with Eve. The Rabbis, noting Adam's exclamation, "this time (zot hapaam) [this is] bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh" (Genesis 2:23), took it as an intimation that there must already have been a "first time". Amsterdam, circa 1700. [a] The legend of Lilith developed extensively during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadah, the Zohar, and Jewish mysticism. When the angels heard Lilith's words, they insisted she go back. 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Browning focused on Lilith's emotional attributes, rather than that of her ancient demon predecessors.[91]. Here is a profile of their names and images in symbolism. Although the image of Lilith of the Alphabet of Ben Sira is unprecedented, some elements in her portrayal can be traced back to the talmudic and midrashic traditions that arose around Eve. Enter your e-mail below to receive the most interesting, quality content about the treasures preserved in the National Library! 18:3). The repetition of these sounds (sen-san-sen-sem) enhances the whip-like, whispering, threatening effect. Eli Yassif, who studied the medieval stories of ben Sirah (or ben Sirach), claimed that the custom of writing amulets with the names of the angels dates back even earlier than the 8th century, its story intended to explain an existing custom. He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her . [101] A different approach to a Satanic Lilith holds that she was once a fertility and agricultural goddess. He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. This is the earliest Jewish amulet to appear in paper print. Lilith is also mentioned in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. 16, 1965, p. 1-13, The Black Suitcase of Magical Amulets with a Mysterious History. Before doing so, she attaches herself to Cain and bears him numerous spirits and demons. Two magical incantations against the evil eye. "Return to Adam without delay," the angels said, "or we will drown you!" Lilith asked: "How can I return to Adam and . She also agreed to have one hundred of her children die every day. In memory of Adam and Eve, excluding Lilith, a protective amulet against demons and harmful forces, from the exhibition book Back to the Shtetl An-Sky and the Jewish Ethnographic Expedition, The Israel Museum, 1994, How was this sense of equality manifested? No Children Allowed: Introducing Lilith, the Jewish Vampire Queen. A lovely dream I dreamt one day Four guests protect Smamit from the demon; the names of three of them are Soney, Sosoney and Senigly. On the other three pages of the bifolium is a list of Torah and Prophets readings. Joseph M. Baumgarten (1991) identified the unnamed woman of The Seductress (4Q184) as related to the female demon. Faust: [dancing with the young witch] Many early occult writers that contributed to modern day Wicca expressed special reverence for Lilith. [102], The western mystery tradition associates Lilith with the Qliphoth of kabbalah. If a child laughed while sleeping, it was taken as a sign that Lilith was present. In 1863, Dante Gabriel Rossetti of the Brotherhood began painting what would later be his first rendition of Lady Lilith, a painting he expected to be his "best picture hitherto". The "screech owl" translation of the King James Version is, together with the "owl" (yanup, probably a water bird) in 34:11 and the "great owl" (qippoz, properly a snake) of 34:15, an attempt to render the passage by choosing suitable animals for difficult to translate Hebrew words. This aspect of God was negative and punitive, as well as one of his ten attributes (Sefirot), at its lowest manifestation has an affinity with the realm of evil and it is out of this that Lilith merged with Samael. There is also a threatening vocal motif involved, emanating from the onomatopoeic sound of the names said together, which resembles sounds found in nature, like the hiss of a snake or the crackle of fire. [56], Key features of the depiction of Lilith or Lilit include the following. I climbed up for them.The Pretty Witch: An amulet attributed to Isaac Luria, "The Holy ARI", 1855 The first occurrence of plague in the recorded history of the Middle East was known as the "Plague of Justinian", named after the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I. And find again the paths of life. Smamit escapes the demon and flees to an isolated mountain where she builds a fortified home. This is in accordance with Jewish folk tradition, which associates Lilith both with long hair (a symbol of dangerous feminine seductive power in Jewish culture), and with possessing women by entering them through mirrors.[90]. By that point, she had already slept with Samael, chief among the demons, and vowed that she would not harm the human offspring of Adam and Eve if they wrote her name on a protective amulet during childbirth. The incantation bowls which have been analysed, are inscribed in the following languages, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Syriac, Mandaic, Middle Persian, and Arabic. [52], The correctly worded incantation bowl was capable of warding off Lilith or Lilit from the household. (Babylonian Talmud, tractate Bava Bathra 73a-b). The first woman also becomes the object of accusations ascribed to Rabbi Joshua of Siknin, according to whom Eve, despite the divine efforts, turned out to be "swelled-headed, coquette, eavesdropper, gossip, prone to jealousy, light-fingered and gadabout" (Genesis Rabbah 18:2). [64] But the aspect of the witch-like role that Lilith plays broadens her archetype of the destructive side of witchcraft. They wouldn't force her to come back to Adam under one condition. They told her God's word, but she did not wish to return. They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons, to whom she bore 'lilim' at the rate of more than one hundred a day. She is considered a goddess of independence by those Satanists and is often worshipped by women, but women are not the only people who worship her. [83], According to Siegmund Hurwitz the Talmudic Lilith is connected with the Greek Lamia, who, according to Hurwitz, likewise governed a class of child stealing lamia-demons. [60] The amulets used against Lilith that were thought to derive from this tradition are, in fact, dated as being much older. To prevent Lilith and Samael's demonic children Lilin from filling the world, God castrated Samael. The angels very names Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof are seen as safeguards against Liliths actions. Scottish author George MacDonald also wrote a fantasy novel entitled Lilith, first published in 1895. Lilith in Historical Text The grief caused Lamia to turn into a monster that took revenge on mothers by stealing their children and devouring them. Samael Aun Weor in The Pistis Sophia Unveiled writes that homosexuals are the "henchmen of Lilith". [27], A connection between the Gilgamesh ki-sikil-lil-la-ke and the Jewish Lilith was rejected on textual grounds by Sergio Ribichini (1978). Charles Fossey (1902) has this literally translating to "female night being/demon", although cuneiform inscriptions from Mesopotamia exist where Llt and Lltu refers to disease-bearing wind spirits. Two organisations that use initiations and magic associated with Lilith are the Ordo Antichristianus Illuminati and the Order of Phosphorus. To avert danger, it was held wise to strike the sleeping child's lips with one finger-whereupon Lilith would vanish. [89] Symbols appearing in the painting allude to the "femme fatale" reputation of the Romantic Lilith: poppies (death and cold) and white roses (sterile passion). In Jewish mythology, Lilith is believed to be Adams first wife, who was banished before she was able to bear his children. She said, "I will not lie below," and he said, "I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. [31], The Arslan Tash amulets are limestone plaques discovered in 1933 at Arslan Tash, the authenticity of which is disputed. However, in terms of textual popularity and dissemination, the motif of Eve copulating with the primeval serpent takes priority over her other sexual transgressions. Lilith does not occur in the Mishnah. After Mephistopheles offers this warning to Faust, he then, quite ironically, encourages Faust to dance with "the Pretty Witch". [47][52] These bowls were buried upside down below the structure of the house or on the land of the house, in order to trap the demon or demoness. etc. https://blog.nli.org.il/en/djm_sen-san-sem/, The figures of Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof appear here from right to left, 2020 . [53][54], The centre of the inside of the bowl depicts Lilith, or the male form, Lilit. (Babylonian Talmud on Tractate Shabbath 151b), "R. Jeremiah b. Eleazar further stated: In all those years [130 years after his expulsion from the Garden of Eden] during which Adam was under the ban he begot, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 22:22. [89] A few magical orders dedicated to the undercurrent of Lilith, featuring initiations specifically related to the arcana of the "first mother", exist. [71], The marriage of Samael and Lilith is known as the "Angel Satan" or the "Other God", but it was not allowed to last. The name of his mate is Mehetabel daughter of Matred, and their daughter is Lilith.[73]. The quest for a proven, functioning magical amulet, one whose supernatural powers can be trusted with certainty, has led buyers to prefer amulets ordained with fixed and familiar mystic formulas. Who is that?Mephistopheles: God separated the female from Adam's side. MacDonald employed the character of Lilith in service to a spiritual drama about sin and redemption, in which Lilith finds a hard-won salvation. [96] In some contemporary concepts, Lilith is viewed as the embodiment of the Goddess, a designation that is thought to be shared with what these faiths believe to be her counterparts: Inanna, Ishtar, Asherah, Anath, Anahita and Isis. The lamiae, the strigae, the sorcerers whom they accused of sucking the blood of living people, and of thus causing their death, the magicians who were said to cause the death of new-born children by charms and malignant spells, are nothing less than what we understand by the name of vampires; even were it to be owned that these lamiae and strigae have really existed, which we do not believe can ever be well proved. Later, the story of how Aaron the High Priest was able to halt the plague with incense is recounted, along with what appears to be a recipe. In the text an amulet is inscribed with the names of three angels (Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof) and placed around the neck of newborn boys in order to protect them from the lilin until their circumcision. The Akkadian word lilu is related to the Hebrew word lilith in Isaiah 34:14, which is thought to be a night bird by some modern scholars such as Judit M. [citation needed]. Hutter, Manfred (1999) "Lilith", in K. van der Toorn et al. This light became hidden and the Holiness became surrounded by a husk of evil. Below it, were the names of the primogenitors: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. Lilith had the power to transform into a woman's physical features, seduce her husband, and conceive a child. [51], An individual Lilith, along with Bagdana "king of the lilits", is one of the demons to feature prominently in protective spells in the eighty surviving Jewish occult incantation bowls from Sassanid Empire Babylon (4th6th century AD) with influence from Iranian culture. The names of the three angels as well as those of Lilith and Satan, also appear. [103] Dion Fortune writes, "The Virgin Mary is reflected in Lilith",[104] and that Lilith is the source of "lustful dreams". [94][95], Gerald Gardner asserted that there was continuous historical worship of Lilith to present day, and that her name is sometimes given to the goddess being personified in the coven by the priestess. Yet another version claims that Lilith emerged as a divine entity that was born spontaneously, either out of the Great Supernal Abyss or out of the power of an aspect of God (the Gevurah of Din). As that youth's eyes burned at thine, so went Stephen Skinner's 1671 Etymologicon Lingu Anglican], which asserts that the word lullaby originates from Lillu abi abi, a Hebrew incantation meaning "Lilith begone" recited by Jewish mothers over an infant's cradle. A similar set of charges appears in Genesis Rabbah 17:8, according to which Eve's creation from Adam's rib rather than from the earth makes her inferior to Adam and never satisfied with anything. Said the Holy One to Adam, 'If she agrees to come back, what is made is good. Lilith claims that since she and Adam were created in the same way they were equal and she refuses to submit to him: After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, "It is not good for man to be alone." In this case Asmodeus and Lilith were believed to procreate demonic offspring endlessly and spread chaos at every turn. 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