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lb:lilith [2025-05-01 08:05:29] – [In Nomine] ninjasrlb:lilith [2025-05-06 06:15:18] (current) – [Origin] ninjasr
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-The origin here is concerned with Lilith the //character// rather than the original original ‘Lilith’ which was a monster. //That// Lilith is basically ‘just a [[lb:succubus#lilitulillilith|succubus]]’...so if you want to read that, then that link will take you to the section that //very very briefly// explains that.\\  The character, Lilith, was created due to a misunderstanding, which I mentioned in the opening text. That misunderstanding is related to how the Bible is written.\\  The Bible was originally composed of multiple texts that were smushed together for some reason - not relevant to what we're talking about. However, people eventually just...forgot this.\\  The part of the Bible where the smushing is most evident is in Genesis and, by some miracle, there are two separate depictions of the first woman (Eve) being created. One of those is the ‘from rib’ creation and the other is an ex nihilo creation, similar to Adam's creation.\\  Since people forgot that the Bible was compiled from multiple texts, they looked at this and started asking...why were there two women? This eventually transformed into ‘first woman left, so God made another one’ and then that ‘first woman’ was identified as Lilith...a name used later in the Bible to refer to a monster.\\  Honestly I...don't understand the logic behind identifying the first woman with Lilith, but that's what ended up happening.\\  So that's the origin of Lilith.+The origin here is concerned with Lilith the //character// rather than the original original ‘Lilith’ which was a monster. //That// Lilith is basically ‘just a [[lb:succubus#lilitulillilith|succubus]]’...so if you want to read that, then that link will take you to the section that //very very briefly// explains that.\\  The character, Lilith, was created due to a misunderstanding, which I mentioned in the opening text. That misunderstanding is related to how the Bible is written.\\  The Bible was originally composed of multiple texts that were smushed together for some reason - not relevant to what we're talking about. However, people eventually just...forgot this.\\  The part of the Bible where the smushing is most evident is in Genesis and, by some miracle, there are two separate depictions of the first woman (Eve) being created. One of those is the ‘from rib’ creation and the other is an ex nihilo creation, similar to Adam's creation. The ‘from rib’ one is the second one.\\  Since people forgot that the Bible was compiled from multiple texts, they looked at this and started asking...why were there two women? This eventually transformed into ‘first woman left, so God made another one’ and then that ‘first woman’ was identified as Lilith...a name used later in the Bible to refer to a monster.\\  Honestly I...don't understand the logic behind identifying the first woman with Lilith, but that's what ended up happening.\\  So that's the origin of Lilith. 
  
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lb/lilith.txt · Last modified: 2025-05-06 06:15:18 by ninjasr

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