Lilith – Adam’s First Wife – Female Demon – Sexually Wanton – Represents Chaos, Seduction and Ungodliness – Cold Cast Bronze Resin

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Item Specifics

Condition: New
Material: Cold Cast Bronze Resin
Height: 12,5 cm – 4,9 inches
Width: 17 cm – 6,7 inches
Length: 11 cm – 4,3 inches
Weight: 520 g

For 4,000 years Lilith has wandered the earth, figuring in the mythic imaginations of writers, artists and poets. Her dark origins lie in Babylonian demonology, where amulets and incantations were used to counter the sinister powers of this winged spirit who preyed on pregnant women and infants. Lilith next migrated to the world of the ancient Hittites, Egyptians, Israelites and Greeks. She makes a solitary appearance in the Bible, as a wilderness demon shunned by the prophet Isaiah. In the Middle Ages she reappears in Jewish sources as the dreadful first wife of Adam.
In the Renaissance, Michelangelo portrayed Lilith as a half-woman, half-serpent, coiled around the Tree of Knowledge. Later, her beauty would captivate the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Her enchanted hair, he wrote, was the first gold. Irish novelist James Joyce cast her as the patron of abortions.
Modern feminists celebrate her bold struggle for independence from Adam. Her name appears as the title of a Jewish womens magazine and a national literacy program. An annual music festival that donates its profits to battered womens shelters and breast cancer research institutes is called the Lilith Fair.
In most manifestations of her myth, Lilith represents chaos, seduction and ungodliness. Yet, in her every guise, Lilith has cast a spell on humankind.
The ancient name Lilith derives from a Sumerian word for female demons or wind spiritsthe liltu and the related ardat lil. The liltu dwells in desert lands and open country spaces and is especially dangerous to pregnant women and infants. Her breasts are filled with poison, not milk. The ardat lil is a sexually frustrated and infertile female who behaves aggressively toward young men.