Lilith
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- (( OOC note: ingame name is "Lilith-"/"Lilitu-" both with dashes, due to the name (as it nearly always is everywhere) inevitably having been taken already. ))
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| Lilith | |
| Player: User:Lilith | |
| Origin: | Natural/Magic, depending on the observer. |
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| Real Name: | Unknown |
| Known Aliases: | Lilitu, Lilit, Kisikillillake, Queen of Sheba, Lili, Lilu, Auset, Isis, many more... |
| Species: | Unknown/goddess |
| Age: | Unknown - written of in the first known human civilisation, Sumeria, going back 5 millenia before the christian calendar was started. |
| Appearance: | Highly variable depending on the purpose of the manifestation. See #Appearance. |
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Goddess, demoness, succubus? That depends on who you ask.
< Writeup coming sooooon >
Background links
- lilithgallery.com/library/lilith
- holysmoke.org/fem/fem0205.htm
- aquarianessence.com/lilith.html
- web.archive.org/web/20091027050250/http://uk.geocities.com/spellsamour/Lilith.html
- science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/vampire1.htm
- astrology.astrozoom.com/index.php?title=Lilith#Keats.2C_Lilith.2C_and_.22Lamia.22
- matrifocus.com/LAM05/spotlight.htm
- jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=421
Notes
( coming soon )
Names
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Some deities feature under many different names. In fact many gods, by means of false noses and other props, can appear in religious chronicles under any number of different names and descriptions.
Since belief is the true life-force of the gods, this is a good way of getting as much of it as they can - rather like working in a fast-food joint or running a mini-cab in your spare time, although it is more on the level of fraudulently claiming a thousand different Social Security Giros by means of forged IDs.
Pratchett, The Discworld Companion
Semi-chronological order, many are simply "likely" with little tracks left to follow.
- Lilitu/Lilit/Lilu/Lili/Kisikillillake (Sumeria, Mesopotamia)
- Ishtar? (Sumeria, Mesopotamia)
- Morrigan? (Celts of modern day Britain and Ireland)
- Lamia?
- Connection with vampirism?
- Lamia?
- Astarte (war, fertility, sexuality) (Bronze Age up until Ancient Greece)?
- Aphrodite? (beauty, love, sexuality) (Ancient Greece)
- Ariadne? (Ancient Greece)
- Artemis/Diane? (Ancient Greece)
- Venus ♀? (Ancient Rome)
- Auset/Isis (Ancient Egypt)
- Mary (???)
- Kali one aspect, Laksjmi (Lakshmi) the other?
Lilith (Judaism/Qabbalah, Old Testament)
- [Queen of Sheba]? (Judaism)
- Lady Liberty?
Appearance
Sometimes vanity is her weakness when something that would blend in more to the human crowd could attract less attention, but she has and does take on lesser forms when necessary, often simultaneously when necessary in a world populated by over 6,800,000,000 humans.[1][2]
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Poetry
1800+ CE
Lady Lilith/Body's Beauty, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866
The Passion Of Lilith, Pamela Hadas (complete poem may be found in "In Light of Genesis," Jewish Publication Society, 1980)
Nephthys, Ed Hand, 25th October 1987
2000s CE
Anon, ~2005
Popular culture inspirations
Some of these have actually been themselves inspired by Lilith, just to confuse things ;)
- Purgatori - the chaos/destruction/Isis/Kali aspect and of course, sex.[3][4][5]
- Hexadecimal - the chaos aspect.[6][7]
- Harley Quinn - the chaos aspect. A being cannot exist sanely for millenia without being able to look at things lightheartedly sometimes.[8]
- Poison Ivy - the nature goddess aspect.[9]
- Kerrigan - the chaos/destruction/Isis/Kali aspect.[10](6 pages), [11][12][13][14] - pure Machiavelli. Name also sounds a little like "Morrigan".
