THE SISTERS OF LILITH

Those who hasten to say, perhaps in consideration of monotheistic dogma, that Lilith is a folk, almost decadent, late creation, should remember that something quite close to her name already appears in the second millenium before Christ.

As it is known, it is in a Sumerian tablet, which is part of the Gilgamesh cycle: the story of Gilgamesh and the willow. There, a character named Lillake appears as one of the evil spirits which squatted in the tree of the love goddess, Inanna, and which, the hero must eject.

Another Lilith-prototype, Lilitu, is a star actress, of first rate, in the corpus of Babylonian spells, where she appears as a lust demoness. The incurable patients, which get wasted with no remedy, are called in these spells the bridegrooms of Lilitu, and they recall to us the victims of vampyrism, which, under the stress of her parasitic kisses, languish slowly, until they join their lover in the bosom of death.

Solomon suspected the Queen of Sheba of being Lilith. His judgement on the two harlots is recorded in I Kings III. 16 ff. According to Isaiah xxxiv. I4-I5, Lilith dwells among the desolate ruins in the Edomite Desert where satyrs (se'ir), reems, pelicans, owls, jackals, ostriches, arrow-snakes and kites keep her company.

In the mythology Lilith is also known as an invisible Earth's satellite and for this reason she's called "Black Moon". In Egyptian culture we find the hypothesis of a invisible earth satellite called Nephtys, invisible why it absorbs but doesn't reflect -as all other things- sunlight.

This invisible star symbolizes in the best way Lilith, the rebel and autoerotic demoness. The glyph corresponding to her is the one shown in the Judaic Encyclopaedia, which asserts that, among the lilithian negativenesses, there are "melancholy" and "black mood" (Saturn has these properties, too). Therefore, to represent her astronomically, it's necessary to draw a waning moon with a low cross, considering that Lilith seems just an overturned Saturn. On the other hand this planet is, to many writers, both female and male and, being the opposite of the Moon because it's situated at a distance of 180 degress, is its overturned image. By mere chance, Lilith, invisible satellite, has a glyph which is the overturned image of Saturn.

I'm the bitch from hell.

I think you know me well.

I am the dark goddess,

Kali, Hecate, Lilith, Morgan, Ereshkigal.

The dark goddess lives in us all. Often suppressed and denied she will eventually leak out in hostility and sarcasm, with sly cutting digs, nagging, gossip and put downs. She reveals herself at her most ugly in our closest relationships. Jung calls her the 'animus suppressed'. She is everything that nice girls are not. Suppressed too far she turns her destructive energy inwards and creates depression and disease.

Hail Dark Goddess, Knower of Mysteries, Mother who is Life and Death. Dancer adorned with Skulls, Destructive as Fire, Spark of Creation, Sacred Devourer, Sacred Creatrix. Kali, Lilith, Morgan. My life blood is yours.

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