When did the story of Lilith first come about?
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Lilith is mentioned first in the pre-hebrew semitic peoples as the wife of the first man. She was wilful and disobeyed both her husband and God, and was cast away by there husband. \n\n Kabbalah tradition holds that Lilith sinned against God by not wanting to become pregnant, and using unnatural means to satisfy her prodifious sexual needs; Thus, God cursed her to become a succubus like creature preying upon young boys at night to test their chastity and temeperance. \n\n Lilith is also the name of a Phoenecian goddess of storms and doom to sailors.
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Its a metaphorical story taken from even older texts.  If you read your Bible, it states that the serpent tempted Eve and not Satan.
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You forgot Lilith, who was made at the same time as Adam, as his equal.\n\nInbreeding's irrelevant, I'm afraid. And Christians say no incest. Tsk tsk tsk.
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ABIGAIL\nMemorial \n1 September \nProfile \nJewish laywoman. Wife of King David. Old Testament matriarch. One of the seven women considered a prophet by the Talmudic scholars. \nBorn \nc.1000 BC \nDied \nc.950 BC \nCanonized \nPre-Congregation \nHard Copy \nprinter friendly version \nTranslate \nespañol | français | deutsch | italiano | português \nReadings \nThen Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon asses: And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal. And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and she met them. And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to this fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good. May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I leave of all that belong to him till the morning, any that pisseth against the wall. And when Abigail saw David, she made haste and lighted off the ass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground. And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, my lord: let thy handmaid speak, I beseech thee, in thy ears, and hear the words of thy servant. Let not my lord the king, I pray thee, regard this naughty man, Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I, thy handmaid, did not see thy servants, my lord, whom thou sentest. Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil to my lord. Wherefore receive this blessing, which thy handmaid hath brought to thee, my lord: and give it to the young men that follow thee, my lord. Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely make for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the battles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life. For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling. And when the Lord shall have done to thee, my lord, all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have made thee prince over Israel, This shall not be an occasion of grief to thee, and a scruple of heart to my lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or hast revenged thyself: and when the Lord shall have done well by my lord, thou shalt remember thy handmaid. \n\nAnd David said to Abigail: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me, and blessed be thy speech: And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand. Otherwise, as the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, who hath withholden me from doing thee any evil, if thou hadst not quickly come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall. And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and said to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, and honoured thy face. \n\nAnd Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal's heart was merry, for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning. But early in the morning, when Nabal had digested his wine, his wife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died. And when David had heard that Na
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Beautiful Human females with rather large breasts!\nThus began the Nephilim.\n\nLoL, I love mythology!
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Yes she was, regardless what so called enlightened people say about Lilith. Eve means, "Mother of all living." All living what? After her kind, Humans, of course. Genesis means "Beginning" it shows the beginning of humans, first sin, first murder and so forth. Don't be led astray by "Gnostic" ideas. Pray for God's guidance.
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Pandora , in Greek mythology, first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to create her as vengeance upon man and his benefactor, Prometheus. The gods endowed her with every charm, together with curiosity and deceit. Zeus sent her as a wife to Epimetheus, Prometheus' simple brother, and gave her a box that he forbade her to open. Despite Prometheus' warnings, Epimetheus allowed her to open the box and let out all the evils that have since afflicted man. Hope alone remained inside the box.
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It is from H.P. Lovecrafts book "Circus Maximus" loosely based on Sumerian numerology cults from his Cthulu series.  To make a long story short, the redheaded stepchild was a circus freak that no one liked. \n\nIf you are an X Files fan, you can read H.P. Lovecrafts work and discover that is where a large portion of their material comes from.\n\nHope that helps.
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She was the first wife of Adam, made from the earth.  She refused to submit to him, thinking of herself as his equal rather than lesser, rightfully so.  God banished her then created Eve from Adams rib.
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I don't believe that much.\n\nbut Cain wasn't the first.....\nThe first Vampire was Lilith, also the first wife of Adam that she eventually left for Lucifer.
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the story of jesus was a myth.\n\nit comes from another pagan cult that predates christianity by 900 years called mithra.  mithra is the original cult claiming to be a savior from a virgin birth, later tortured and killed, then resurrected.  a god would have never written or inspired anything so poorly authored as the crap in the bible.  a second-year communications student from USC could do better...\n\nPeople will comment here about false doctrine, but in reality, the bible is the biggest, most false collection of dogma there is.  it's like the biggest practical joke ever pulled on mankind.
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Pride was the first sin. It came in via Lucifer's desire to be above God. God cast him to the earth and renamed him Satan.
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Emma Lazarus. I actually knew this and didn't have to look it up like these other people. GIVE ME THE POINTS!!!
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found this info\nhttp://gnosis.org/lilith.htm
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Lilith. \nBut she was too strong a female figure for the church to be comfortable with.\nA lot of changes have been made in the Bible over time for political reasons. \nFor example the archangel who guarded the gates of Eden was removed when people started praying directly to him (Uriel - hope my spelling is correct) since he was thought to be responsible for earthquakes, floods and other natural catastrophies. People said why pray to God to tell his angel to spare us when we can ask him directly.\nNow you hear about a flaming sword hovering in front of the gates...\nJust liek the catholic church actually announced "disarming" the heavenly host for the new millenium just to be on the safe side in case the second comming was imminent and their teachings hadn't been loving enough.
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This is one intrepretation of the MYTH...\n\nThe ancient Greek explanation for the presence of suffering among men may not be quite as familiar to us and is the subject of a painting by Saj called Pandora's Box. Pandora, the first woman, was created to punish Prometheus, a god who championed the cause of mortal man against the wishes of Zeus, ruler of the gods. Pandora was presented to Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, accompanied by a sealed jar, or box. Insatiable curiosity led Pandora to open the box and release a shower of misery on mankind, the apple of Prometheus's eye. Thus Pandora turned out to be the source of all evil for man, as was Eve, according to the story of original sin.
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check out the book "Seven daughter of Eve"  I think it may be what youre looking for, sorry I forget the author though.