The worst demons in Judeo-Christianity

Post Reply New Topic

Wiccans? I think you mean Jews. Most literary references to Lilith come to us from Jewish sources, mostly in the Talmud, but also the dubiously canon Alphabet of Ben-Sirach, etc. And they all tend to portray Lilith as a mighty and lonely spirit, a dominator of men, blissful release to the doomed unborn, the first spurned wife of Adam and the wife of Samael, a mother of demons and a patroness of abortions.

Sure, maybe the Babylonian tradition is "older." But I place much greater stock in living Jewish traditions, than in some white European professor's interpretation of ten thousand year old Babylonian chicken scratches that he might be reading upside down for all we know.

That being said...... I don't think anyone should be worshiping her as a full-on goddess, and Lilith-as-goddess is a very silly new-age phenomenon. But much like Medusa was to the Athenians, the mighty visage of Lilith today is a shield of terror against every rapist and patriarch. Yes, I do think more forward-thinking feminist types ought to remember her name.

It should be stated, for historical context, that the abortion-industrial complex is largely a product of modernity and you are very unlikely to find references to any mythical figures being a patron(ess) of abortions. Women have been having abortions since time immemorial and usually they were performed in utter secrecy and never spoken of. Many of the old techniques were quite dangerous, and involved the ingestion (or vaginal insertion) of various toxic herbs, heavy metals, etc. Women literally poisoning themselves to end the life inside them.

On the more supernatural side of things there are some very old spells, in some very old texts, in which Lilith or one of her sisters may be called upon to terminate a pregnancy. This is an exceptionally malevolent art and should never be sought by a magician who would consider themselves a friend of the light. Nothing "blissful" about these four, they're gatekeepers of damnation, pray you never feel the need to ask for their intercession.