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--- lb:lilith [2025-05-01 08:05:29] – [In Nomine] ninjasr
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 ==== Origin ====
-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.
 ==== Wicca ====
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 ==== Lucifer ====
-Here I'm referring to the Lucifer TV show, which found its way to Netflix at some point. Lucifer is a crime show about the devil himself helping a police detective solve crimes. Seriously, that's what the show is about. In addition to all that, there are often supernatural shenanigans happening. I don't care much for //Lucifer// since I forgot to keep up with it, though I did enjoy it until then...though //Lucifer// was insane anyhow. Apparently Eve marries Mazikeen? What?\\  In //Lucifer//, Lilith makes a very brief appearance, but is mentioned a couple'a times. She is stated to be the mother of demons, who serve Lucifer in Hell, which includes Mazikeen.((:fn:>For those who don't know: Maz is Lucifer's sexy demon bartender/helper/friend.))\\  She and Lucifer were friends and Wikipedia states they were ex-lovers. My memory doesn't say this is wrong, but I don't remember that being explicitly stated. Ah, well, doesn't matter.\\  She had apparently given birth to the Lilim (demons) on her own. There is a question of how she managed to do this, but it doesn't really matter. Her demonic children were made into super-orphans who lack souls((:fn:>There are some...possible philosophical and metaphysical issues with that. I remember thinking back when I watched this show that the demons definitely have souls so, if they really didn't...well, shit. But that's not the point of this article or this section.)) to make them strong and independent like how she is strong and independent. Yes, Lilith is a feminist. And, just like every feminist, she's a deadbeat mom.\\  Adam also remains infatuated with her, apparently. Although we only have Eve's word on this (and she is in the process of cheating on Adam((:fn:>Sure she's no longer married to him because marriage ends once death occurs...but still. Kinda a shitty thing to do.))((:fn:>It's also kinda...icky in a meta sense, suggesting that the first woman is committing infidelity and a lesbian and so on. It could //easily// be turned into a way to point at women and go 'see, they're inherently immoral/prone to cheating because the first woman was like that!'. This kind of association is obviously bad and I generally lean towards 'avoid it please'.)) and previously cheated on him) so we can’t be sure that's true. If it is, that infatuation lasted a //very// long time.\\  This portrayal makes her look bad, which is kinda important if big G is supposed to be good, or at least neutral, but the show probably doesn't fully realize that she //is// bad? I mean, her position of ‘I must be strong and independent’ is a clear feminist ideal, but her children are all aforementioned super-orphans who lack souls. Plus she hasn't been in their life at all and then she fucked off to live alone for the rest of her life, never meeting any of them. If she is intended to be a pure bad girl, then this is fine...all I'm saying is, that it's thematically hilarious that the feminist is treated so poorly when the show generally leans progressive.\\  Lilith's portrayal in Lucifer is probably the closest to the folklore in that she's a //bad// girl who befriended/banged Lucifer at some point, gave birth to all the demons and was the first woman made. Good on you //Lucifer//. Though...I //am// suspecting this is accidental. This //feels// like an attempt at a morally neutral or good Lilith that fumbled the execution big time. Refer to this if you want a hypocritical Lilith, but otherwise refer to //In Nomine// for a neutral portrayal.
+Here I'm referring to the Lucifer TV show, which found its way to Netflix at some point. Lucifer is a crime show about the devil himself helping a police detective solve crimes. Seriously, that's what the show is about. In addition to all that, there are often supernatural shenanigans happening. I don't care much for //Lucifer// since I forgot to keep up with it, though I did enjoy it until then...though //Lucifer// was insane anyhow. Apparently Eve marries Mazikeen? What?\\  In //Lucifer//, Lilith makes a very brief appearance, but is mentioned a couple'a times. She is stated to be the mother of demons, who serve Lucifer in Hell, which includes Mazikeen.((:fn:>For those who don't know: Maz is Lucifer's sexy demon bartender/helper/friend.))\\  She and Lucifer were friends and Wikipedia states they were ex-lovers. My memory doesn't say this is wrong, but I don't remember that being explicitly stated. Ah, well, doesn't matter.\\  She had apparently given birth to the Lilim (demons) on her own. There is a question of how she managed to do this, but it doesn't really matter. Her demonic children were made into super-orphans who lack souls((:fn:>There are some...possible philosophical and metaphysical issues with that. I remember thinking back when I watched this show that the demons definitely have souls so, if they really didn't...well, shit. But that's not the point of this article or this section.)) to make them strong and independent like how she is strong and independent. Yes, Lilith is a feminist. And, just like every feminist, she's a deadbeat mom.\\  Adam also remains infatuated with her, apparently. Although we only have Eve's word on this (and she is in the process of cheating on Adam((:fn:>Sure she's no longer married to him because marriage ends once death occurs...but still. Kinda a shitty thing to do.))((:fn:>It's also kinda...icky in a meta sense, suggesting that the first woman is committing infidelity and a lesbian and so on. It could //easily// be turned into a way to point at women and go 'see, they're inherently immoral/prone to cheating because the first woman was like that!'. This kind of association is obviously bad and I generally lean towards 'avoid it please'.)) and previously cheated on him) so we can’t be sure that's true. If it is, that infatuation lasted a //very// long time.\\  This portrayal makes her look bad, which is kinda important if big G is supposed to be good, or at least neutral, but the show probably doesn't fully realize that she //is// bad? I mean, her position of ‘I must be strong and independent’ is a clear feminist ideal, but her children are all aforementioned super-orphans who lack souls. Plus she hasn't been in their life at all and then she fucked off to live alone for the rest of her life, never meeting any of them. If she is intended to be a pure bad girl, then this is fine...all I'm saying is, that it's thematically hilarious that the feminist is treated so poorly when the show generally leans [[lb:SocJus|progressive]].\\  Lilith's portrayal in Lucifer is probably the closest to the folklore in that she's a //bad// girl who befriended/banged Lucifer at some point, gave birth to all the demons and was the first woman made. Good on you //Lucifer//. Though...I //am// suspecting this is accidental. This //feels// like an attempt at a morally neutral or good Lilith that fumbled the execution big time. Refer to this if you want a hypocritical Lilith, but otherwise refer to //In Nomine// for a neutral portrayal.
 ==== World of Darkness ====
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 ==== Biblical Mentions ====
-I think that people who include Lilith as an actual character according need to come up with a reasonable explanation as to why Lilith is not explicitly named or referred to in the Bible outside of the single place where she is supposedly created first.((:fn:>Obviously, excluding that, there are mentions of Lilith, but those are explicitly as a monster and not ‘first woman’, which is the point I'm making here.))\\  Remember that the Bible remains exactly the same in this scenario((:fn:>Unless you explicitly change the Bible as well, of course.)), so Genesis is still made up of two books smushed together into one narrative. There has to be a reason for why ‘woman created twice’ is unique among all the other incidents of the same thing happening twice.\\  Here's a simple solution that I came up with: The Dead Sea Scrolls. It doesn't necessarily have to be those, but can be if you want them to be. À la Evangelion, let's suggest that among the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are some of the oldest versions of the Biblical texts, is included a text, or multiple, which explain the whole Lilith situation. This text explicitly explains the creation of woman twice as actually being about two women being created. Then some later evidence suggests (or that text explicitly claims) that disagreements started over why woman was created twice and whether this was a mistake or not. Possibly because it's not understood why woman #1 left the Garden of Eden or disagreements over how woman was created. Over time, it's possible that they may start to argue that only one woman was ever created, but disagreed on //how//.\\  So, in this version of events, the two versions of the creation story that are smashed together are tellings of the same version of events...just that they disagreed on a number of details. The two each chose a different way for how Lilith was created.\\  This isn't an iron-tight view of things, but I think it fits well-enough together.
+I think that people who include Lilith as an actual character based on the folklore need to come up with a reasonable explanation as to why Lilith is not explicitly named or referred to in the Bible outside of the single place where she is supposedly created first.((:fn:>Obviously, excluding that, there are mentions of Lilith, but those are explicitly as a monster and not ‘first woman’, which is the point I'm making here.))\\  Remember that the Bible remains exactly the same in this scenario((:fn:>Unless you explicitly change the Bible as well, of course.)), so Genesis is still made up of two books smushed together into one narrative. There has to be a reason for why ‘woman created twice’ is unique among all the other incidents of the same thing happening twice.\\  Here's a simple solution that I came up with: The Dead Sea Scrolls. It doesn't necessarily have to be those, but can be if you want them to be. À la Evangelion, let's suggest that among the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are some of the oldest versions of the Biblical texts, is included a text, or multiple, which explain the whole Lilith situation. This text explicitly explains the creation of woman twice as actually being about two women being created. Then some later evidence suggests (or that text explicitly claims) that disagreements started over why woman was created twice and whether this was a mistake or not. Possibly because it's not understood why woman #1 left the Garden of Eden or disagreements over how woman was created. Over time, it's possible that they may start to argue that only one woman was ever created, but disagreed on //how//.\\  So, in this version of events, the two versions of the creation story that are smashed together are tellings of the same version of events...just that they disagreed on a number of details. The two each chose a different way for how Lilith was created.\\  This isn't an iron-tight view of things, but I think it fits well-enough together.
 ==== Self-Awareness ====