From: owner-lilith-fair-fans-digest@smoe.org (lilith-fair-fans-digest) To: lilith-fair-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: lilith-fair-fans-digest V2 #2 Reply-To: lilith-fair-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-lilith-fair-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lilith-fair-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lilith-fair-fans-digest Friday, April 9 1999 Volume 02 : Number 002 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [lilith-fair-fans] Lilith history [Paul Schreiber Subject: [lilith-fair-fans] Lilith history I found this, and though I'd pass it on... Paul Adam's first wife was a relic of an early rabbinical attempt to assimilate the Sumero-Babylonian Goddess Belit-ili, or Belili, to Jewish mythology. To the Canaanites, Lilith was Baalat, the "Divine Lady". On a tablet from Ur, ca. 2000 B.C., she was addressed as Lillake.[1] Hebraic tradition said Adam married Lilith because he grew tired of coupling with beasts, a common custom of Middle-Eastern herdsmen, though the Old Testament declared it a sin (Deuteronomy 27:21). Adam tried to force Lilith to lie beneath him in the "missionary position" favored by male-dominant societies. Moslems were so insistent on the male-superior sexual position that they said, "Accursed be the man who maketh woman heaven and himself earth."[2] Catholic authorities said any sexual position other than the male-superior one is sinful.[3] But Lilith was neither a Moslem nor a Catholic. She sneered at Adam's sexual crudity, cursed him, and flew away to make her home by the Red Sea. God sent angels to fetch Lilith back, but she cursed them too, ignored God's command, and spent her time coupling with "demons" (whose lovemaking evidently pleased her better) and giving birth to a hundred children every day. So God had to produce Eve as Lilith's more docile replacement. Lilith's fecundity and sexual preferences show that she was a Great Mother of settled agricultural tribes, who resisted the invasions of nomadic herdsmen, represented by Adam. Early Hebrews disliked the Great Mother who drank the blood of Abel the herdsman, after his slaying by the elder god of agriculture and smithcraft, Cain (Genesis 4:11). Lilith's Red Sea was another version of Kali Ma's Ocean of Blood, which gave birth to all things but needed periodic sacrificial replenishment. There may have been a connection between Lilith and the Etruscan divinity Leinth, who had no face and who waited at the gate of the underworld along with Eita and Persipnei (Hades and Persephone) to receive the souls of the dead.[4] The underworld gate was a yoni, and also a lily, which had "no face". Admission into the underworld was often mythologized as a sexual union. The lily or lilu (lotus) was the Great Mother's flower-yoni, whose title formed Lilith's name. The story of Lilith disappeared from the canonical Bible, but her daughters the lilim haunted men for over a thousand years. Well into the middle ages, the Jews were still manufacturing amulets to keep away the lilim, who were lustful she-demons given to copulating with men in their dreams, causing nocturnal emissions.[5] Naturally, the lilim squatted on top of their victims in the position favored by ancient matriarchs. Greeks adopted the lilim and called them Lamiae, Empusae (Forcers-In), or Daughters of Hecate. Christians also adopted them and called them harlots of hell, or succubae, the female counterparts of incubi. Celibate monks tried to fend them off by sleeping with their hands crossed over their genitals, clutching a crucifix. It was said that every time a pious Christian had a wet dream, Lilith laughed. Even if a male child laughed in his sleep, people said Lilith was fondling him. To protect boys against her, chalk circles were drawn around cradles with the written names of the three angels God sent to fetch Lilith back to Adam ‹ even though these angels had proved incapable of dealing with her. Some said men and babies should not be left alone in the house or Lilith might seize them.[6] Another common name for the Daughters of Lilith was Night-Hag. This term didn't imply that they were ugly; on the contrary, they were supposed to be very beautiful.[7] As with their brothers the incubi, they were presumed so expert at lovemaking that after an experience with a Night-Hag, a man couldn't be satisfied with the love of a mortal woman. [1] Robert Graves & Raphael Patai. Hebrew Myths (1964), p.68. [2] Allen Edwardes. The Jewel in the Lotus (1965), p.157. [3] Robert Graves & Raphael Patai. Hebrew Myths (1964), p.67. [4] H.R. Hays. In The Beginnings (1963), p.183. [5] Robert Graves. The Greek Myths (1955), v.1, p.190. [6] Richard Cavendish, The Powers of Evil (1975), p.99. [7] Reginald Scot. Discoverie of Witchcraft (1973), p.512. - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe lilith-fair-fans - -or-- unsubscribe lilith-fair-fans-digest Hey, AOL chuckleheads--stop mailing unsub messages to the list. Read the instructions five lines up. Because a mind is a terrible thing. Lilith is done for the year, so feel free to use this as a Lilith-act chat and tape-trade list. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:03:21 EDT From: AMCFLND1@aol.com Subject: [lilith-fair-fans] Lilith Info Does anyone actually know when dates and artists will be released? - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe lilith-fair-fans - -or-- unsubscribe lilith-fair-fans-digest Hey, AOL chuckleheads--stop mailing unsub messages to the list. Read the instructions five lines up. Because a mind is a terrible thing. Lilith is done for the year, so feel free to use this as a Lilith-act chat and tape-trade list. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:11:17 EDT From: SarahMcL99@aol.com Subject: Re: [lilith-fair-fans] Lilith Info The tourdates and lineups should be released around April 26 or so, at least that's what i heard. - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe lilith-fair-fans - -or-- unsubscribe lilith-fair-fans-digest Hey, AOL chuckleheads--stop mailing unsub messages to the list. Read the instructions five lines up. Because a mind is a terrible thing. Lilith is done for the year, so feel free to use this as a Lilith-act chat and tape-trade list. ------------------------------ End of lilith-fair-fans-digest V2 #2 ************************************