According to myth she is the "First Eve" created in the same way as
Adam from the red miry clay. But in being made his equal, she was
unwilling to take the submissive role, and in refusing for the act of
love to lie beneath her husband she was banished from Eden, only to be
replaced by the woman made from the rib of man, Eve.
For the sin of her willfulness and disobedience, Lilith was sent
childless out of the Garden, while Eve and Adam, after their own fall
from grace, began, outside the gates of Eden to procreate and bring
forth their first sons into the world. Lilith, meanwhile having been
transported by angels westward toward the river of Egypt, there,
somewhere up in the air over the Red Sea, she mates with a falling
archangel, Samael to bring on to the earth that race known to Genesis
as the "sons of men". These to be distinguished from the "sons of God"
generated from the womb of Eve.
According to certain Kabbalistic accounts, let alone from the ceiling
of the Sistine chapel in a painting of Micheangelo, the Serpent in the
Garden of Eden was *Lilith* . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith
'The marriage of Samael and Lilith is known as the "Angel Satan" or
the "Other God," but it was not allowed to last. To prevent Lilith and
Samael's demonic children (the "Lilin") from filling the world, God
castrated Samael.'
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The myth of Lilith offers to reveal the ancient mystery as to where
the sons of God, i.e. of Adam and Eve, could have found wives to
further procreate and populate the earth. Before the castration of
archangel Samael, the seed for the sons of men, the "Lilin" had
already been sown, despite being soon cut off from any further pure
succession for their line--as if the wisdom of ancient myth were here
to recount the fate of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.
Lilith, once again being denied fulfillment of a desire, which again,
being Lilith, she could not abide, as ever, her lust to tempt, to
mount and couple with man, to surmount him and make him submissive
remains unslaked along with her passion to bear and keep his children.
She is thus become a succubus, going forth to hover over and suck
semen from the bodies of sleeping men all over the earth, and also to
rob mothers of their children, both boys and girls, stealing the souls
from their infant bodies during the first few weeks following birth.
And there is more, very much more to be learned about the myth and
mystery of Lilith . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith
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JP