No more than a month ago, I was talking with my brother while we were drinking some beers in granada when he told me something about a strange woman I have never had heard before, an ancient girl named Lilith. The short story my brother told me about her left me very intrigued, so I started looking for some information.
Incredibly I found a long amount of information and I realised how poor are my religious knowledges. Hear I leave some of what I found.
Contrary
to what we have traditionally learned through the evangelization of the
Catholic Church, exist within Hebrew mythology, based on ancient
writings and in some passages of the Bible, beliefs about a female
figure before Eve, Lilith.
On the sixth day, God created man and woman at the same time. The man of dust and mud, was called Adam. The woman's name was Lilith and was made of dust and excrement. Both were created in the image and likeness of God and both were equal, none was superior. This equality between Adam and Lilith gender drawbacks, as she was not
always willing to submit to Adam's will, claiming they were alike to the
eyes of God. So great were the disputes that she refused to have sex with Adam, as she refused to be under him. Adam
tried to force her and she called God, who told her that if she had no sex with Adam, she would be expelled from paradise and she preferred to live
on the shores of the Red Sea, turning into a demon.After that, Adam was lonely in paradise and asked God to create a new partner
to be submissive and obedient, whence arises Eve, created from one of
Adam's ribs to be always in a lower position.Believers
of this study are based on ancient Hebrew texts, where the story is
told concisely and in an inconsistency in the Bible. In
Genesis 1:27 it says " God created man in his image,
in the image of God he created him: male and female he created " and
then explains the creation of Eve, to what is alleged by the talk of the creation of woman two times and in different way.Lilith
is called in the Bible by name on another occasion in Isaiah 34:14 "The
wild cats and hyenas will join and a satyr will call the other, there also shall
rest Lilith and find rest in him", but already in his demon form .Clearly this fable was created in antiquity as an example for any woman who was not willing to accept the superiority of men. They should know that this was a sin punishable by God. Currently many feminist groups take the image and name of Lilith as a representative symbol of struggle for the rights of women.
