The Lilith in Dracula, Carmilla, Christabel, Geraldine and The Hunger

The Lilith in Dracula, Carmilla, Christabel, Geraldine and The Hunger For centuries Lilith, the Queen of the Night, has been blamed when a babe or earth dies without certain cause or when a cleaning lady refuses to be submissive to her husband. While the Legend of Lilith is not widely cognize today, it is not difficult to find information about the demoness. However, there argon slight variations found from story to story. Here we will focus on the romance as found in Hebrew mythology, and we will peculiarly emphasize the similarities seen between Lilith and various vampires seen in literature today. The Hebrew mannikin of Lilith was actually borrowed from Babylonian and Syrian myths. Lilitu was a Babylonian demon and a spirit of the night and of storms. Lamassu was a Sumerian goddess and the daughter of Anu, the god of Heaven. It is believed that Lilith is a combination of these twain demons from earlier legends. However, for the purpose of our study, we wil l focus on the legend of Lilith found in Hebrew scriptures. According to Hebrew scriptures, Lilith was evens predecessor and therefore, the first wife of Adam. However, there are dickens variations on the Hebrew creation myth. The first states that God made man and woman out of the similar material (earth or clay), at the same time, then the two beings were equals in every way. The alternative version of this myth states that Adam was made of clay while Lilith was made of dirt and filth. However, unheeding of her origin, the remainder of the myth proceeds much the same way. Legends states when it was time for the two to have sexual intercourse, Adam insisted that Lilith take the more submissive position. This enkindle her and in ... ...le from the Garden of Eden, she was doomed to forever prey on neonate children and suck the blood and life fluids from men. For this reason, she is the earliest known force of evil, thus making her the perfect image of t he mother of all vampires. Works Cited Begg, Ean. The fury of the Black Virgin. Arkana Penguin Books, 1996 pp.34-40. Bunson, Matthew. The Vampire Encyclopedia. New York Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1993.Coulter, Charles Russell, and Patricia Turner. The Encyclopedia of antediluvian Deities. London McFarland and Company, Inc., 2000, pp. 285-86.Masters, Anthony. The Natural History of the Vampire. London Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972, pp. 170-71. THE GNOSIS ARCHIVE Gnostic Studies on the Web. Accessed on May 1, 2003. http//www.webcom.com/gnosis/lilith.html