The Evolution of Lilith :: Lilith Essays

The Evolution of LilithThe prototypical appearance of Lilith came in the form of a cameo in a figwork forcet called the Prologue of Gilgamesh. In it, a great tree is described, obviously the tree of life. On the top of a tree rests a bird, possibly an eagle, and in the heart lives a dragonwho had build its nest there...the demon Lilith... This poop be equated with the Midguard serpent of Norse mythology and various other chaos creatures who lived and gnawed on the Tree of Life. The usance these entities served was one of balancing the Yang with the Yin, tempering the force of Creation with the force of Destruction, direct with chaos, as one cannot exist without the other. Thus Lilith, and other so-called serpents served an strategic purpose, that of keeping the Yang under control, and thus also serving a mental purpose. When one rests too much in the light, one can surface a self- honesteous attitude, and starts to think that they bonk everything. This was the true nature of the kingdom Adam and Eve were in before the serpent in the garden, who was Lilith as we shall later see, were in....Adam and Eve had the false sense of security that they knew everything there was to have sex and carried in spite of appearance them the forces of creation (Yang). Lilith, on the other hand, who was the personification of Yin brought them down to nation when she got Eve to eat from the tree. Where Yang says I know the right way, I know everything, Yin says You dont know everything, you never will know everything, and there is no right way. Thus, Adam and Eve were brought down to earth, so to speak, when they partook of the fruit. The expulsion from paradise symbolized their word sense of reality, and Yahwehs displeasure symbolized humankinds need to control and escape reality. As one can see, each character in the story of the fall are archtypical symbols for forces within the human psyche... Going back to Lilith, after her appearence in the Prologue, she beca me described on tablets found in ancient Sumeria as the hand of Inanna who swept men into her temples for sacred sexual rights. Lilith became the symbolism of feminine allure, the dangerous seductive qualities of the meritless moon. Though she was never a Goddess in Sumerian lore, Lilith was nonetheless an all-important(prenominal) enough figure for later cultures to take note of her.