Lilith

Both of her main appearances through history, two very similar stories, in both she leaves a garden.

Genesis Deleted Texts: The Garden Of Eden

this is part of one of the most well known creation stories, the garden of eden.

Before Eve came, Lilith, was there.

When God created Adam and saw that he was alone, He created a woman from dust, like him, and named her Lilith. But when God brought her to Adam, they immediately began to fight. Adam wanted her to lie beneath him, but Lilith insisted that he lie below her. When Lilith saw that they would never agree, she uttered God’s Name and flew into the air and fled from Adam. 

Mesopotamian Texts : “Inanna and the Huluppu Tree”

the garden of eden creation story was taken from, as ancient mesopotamia is the oldest known civilization, this sumerian text.

this is a part of it where lilith is mentioned again:

Then a serpent who could not be charmed Made its nest in the roots of the Huluppu-tree. The Anzu-bird set his young in the branches of the tree. And the dark maid Lilith built her home in the trunk.

The young woman who loved to laugh wept. How Inanna wept! Yet they would not leave her tree.

In both of these texts, there is a “Tree of life” so to speak, Lilith who leaves due to the space no longer being able to hold her full self, the snake is also seen in both stories, in both gardens.

Also the same rivers are specified in both stories;

Pishon, Gihon, Hiddekel, and Euphrates.

The Euphrates and Hiddekel (the Tigris) are prominent real-world rivers in the Middle East, to this day.

I find all this rather interesting, but this is a topic I have been circling, or should I say, has been circling me and all of my spiritual experiences…

I stumbled upon this quote today, and suddenly it all made sense.

Who I am, my life path, my interactions with lilith throughout my life.

Lilith was harshly demonized with the rise of patriarchy/puritanical culture, when the connection to the land, and thus reality, was beginning to be severed.

(as seen in the story inanna and the huluppu tree)

this is a deep topic we are only going to graze.

this is all meant to summon buried instinct and remembrance deep within you if its meant to.

here is the quote:

“in the face of the awakening of the demonic forces, or in other words, the awakening of instinct and its many faces. patriarchal structures lose their main source of power. Lilith, therefore, does not fight Patriarchy by its own rules, she awakens that which is capable of rendering it powerless; the psychic autonomy to oppose everything that attempts to subjugate the free expression of the self”

Its as if, Lilith, actually, represents the wild.

and through her position in the stories you can see the wild is being pushed back, and away, misunderstood, seen as an inconvenience, scary, with much of the wildlife left with nowhere to live.

Lilith is the one who is always depicted as leaving to keep her autonomy.

So it seems she represents what is uncontrived, wild, instinctual not intellectual.

she seems to even represent the last standing resistance to the tyranny of logos.

maybe these are just the ramblings of a mad woman

or maybe this was exactly what you needed to read…

i’ll let you decide 😉