Could the Serpent have been Lilith?

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Satan is not mentioned ANYWHERE in Genesis.
Could the tempting serpent have been Lilith, Adam's first wife come back for revenge?

'Tempting serpent' fits her mysterious, succubus, witchy, character.

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EDIT~ Lilith is in the Hebrew (original) text. Lilith was removed because she didn't fit the ideology later Xians wanted to spread.

Funny how many of you say she wasn't real but all the other mythological characters were.

Answer 1

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Lillith or Lilitu goes back to the Sumerian semitic roots of Judaism. Traditionally, until the information from Sumer came to light, Lilith was always derived from "night", but today scholars insist that it is more correct to use Lil. This Sumerian word meant breath, or spirit, and was borrowed by the Babylonians for the same use, becoming lillitu.

The symbols that come with Lilith as well as the translations in the bible tell a story that is connected with Wisdom. Today the owl represents wisdom; Alilat(Arabic) has been identified with Athena, ancient Wisdom Goddess; she is also of the night, as is the owl and it is in the dark of the womb and the earth that all nature germinates; and in the dark of the mind, ideas are born, before they spring into the light.

Although history downgraded her, occasionally someone calls on the older myths and begins to reinstate her. The Cabalistic Zohar says "she has dominion over all instinctual natural beings over every living being that creepeth". Some Cabalists went further: "Lilith is a ladder on which one can ascend to the rungs of prophecy," says one; she makes the connection with the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Another document sees her actually as the bride of god.

Its not hard to make the assumption that Lillith was the snake portrayed in the garden of Eden.

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Answer 2

Interesting thought but my understanding is that she became a demon and causes all sorts of mischief against men and children...

Answer 3

Technically she came from a storm demon/goddess character. So, no, it really doesn't fit. Though there were many snake goddesses, Lilith wasn't one of them.

Only after the Abrahamic theology got ahold of her did she become a succubi. And technically, she's not in the Bible or the Torah.

Answer 4

Liliyth is only in Isaiah 34:14, described as a screech own.

Liliyth is a night demon that inhabits desolate places in Jordan (Edom).

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Hermenutika Bible Works 4

Answer 5

Oftentimes, 6000 and more years ago, when an new religion was introduced to an area, the previous god was made a demon for "tricking" its followers. 6000+ years ago there were cultures who were snake worshippers. They believed snakes were immortal because of the way they shed their skin, they thought the snake was reborn. So most likely, the serpent in Genesis was not Satan but the snake god of an abandoned religion. The concept of Satan and the Devil was introduced to the Jewish religion later, and it came from Zoroastrianism.

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My college education. It was expensive.

Answer 6

She was a former day Heather Mills

Answer 7

she wasnt even real...
Watching HChannel huh? WE KNOW SATAN can posess creatures...its obvious..

Answer 8

With regard to the tempting serpent of the tree of life ,I consider that to be evil in the DNA. Tree of life is DNA . Evil in the dna is the genetic bomb.

Just one point ...there is no proof that adam and eve story is history. More likely to be the birth of a new species called Meek

Answer 9

no she was a person. but what if she sent the serpent? now that would be a story worth reading.

Answer 10

At first I thought you were talking about Frasier's or is it Niles's wife on "Frasier" the TV serial and then I looked it up and found:
Lilith (Hebrew לילית) is a mythological female Mesopotamian storm demon associated with wind and was thought to be a bearer of disease, illness, and death. The figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind and storm demons or spirits as Lilitu, in Sumer, circa 3000 BC. Many scholars place the origin of the phonetic name "Lilith" at somewhere around 700 BC.[1] Lilith appears as a night demon in Jewish lore and as a screech owl in the King James version of the Bible. She is also apocryphally the first wife of Adam.

I LOVE the Sumerian Empire. One of my fave references. It's when EVERYthing seemed to begin. Banks, religions, govts ... all the "constraints of mankind". When I looked it up there was also a picture of EVe with the Serpent all wrapped around her so yes ... Lilith WAS the serpent that tempted EVe.

WElp ... it's almost 2:30am ... time for me to hit the hay. You must live in England? Or you just seem to be up late tonight ... perhaps to make up for going to bed so early yesterday?

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Don't let Swan know that the Bible is highly improbable, when related to actual history, too. :-)

Answer 11

Lilith is not mentioned ANYWHERE in Genesis either.

Answer 12

Lilith became a demon, but i doubt it.

Answer 13

The serpent is not identified as what most do consider as being the "fallen angel" Lucifer. However, we do know that at the time of man fruition on the earth, Satan was given reign as the prince of darkness....Lilith is only identified in the major prophets, ideally the book of Isaiah. Therefore rendering your hypothesis highly improbable.

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