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Arachnidia Lilith, Spidergoddess of Sitra AhraOne of the many secret aspects of Lilith within the 218 Current is Arachnidia Lilith, also known asAkkawbishia Lilith. This aspect is a zoomorphic manifestation of the Mother of All Demons andembodies many of the most feared attributes and powers that within the kliffotic cabbala areascribed to Lilith and her Black Moon sphere of Gamaliel.Arachnidia Lilith is an esoteric development of the six-armed aspect of Ama Lilith, that in manyways is one of the most elevated and powerful personifications of the goddess of the kliffot. Lilithis, in her zoomorphic manifestation as the spidergoddess, associated with the darkest and mostunlawful mysteries of Gamaliel and governs the black magic connected to the highest forms ofvampirism, the creating and sending of nightmares, the esoteric and soul strangling forms ofligature, the climbing of the hidden web that ties together and connects all the kliffotic spheres, themost advanced forms of shapeshifting and lycanthropy, the animation of the shells of the dead, thegaining of the Zachalilim Famulus and the esoteric techniques for the manipulation and control ofthe astral currents.Arachnidia is according to tradition associated with nooses, advanced forms of cord and knotmagic, the ensnaring of the shadows of the living, and murder through hanging and strangulation.Amongst the countless shadows that serve her, there is also a special group that consists of murdervictims, murderers and suicides that have died by the strangler's cord or the hangman's noose. Thisspider aspect of Lilith is therefore called upon within certain dark rites that have as their aim to tieoff and strangle the supply of life force to the enemy and thus, in a very slow and painful fashion,take his/her life, redirecting it towards the ever hungry and gaping jaws of the kliffot.Naamah, who is the 'Younger Lilith' or the Mistress of Nahemoth, is according to tradition thegoddess of weaving. It is therefore interesting to note that the 'Elder Lilith' once again elevates theattributes and powers of Naamah to a much more abstract and higher level, this time by assumingthe form of Arachnidia/Akkawbishia Lilith, who in her spider form is the most perfectly skilled andmasterful weaver of them all.The spider has within many old traditions acted as the foremost totemic animal of both the moonand its goddess, and similar to many of these ancient traditions the spiders within the kliffotic cultusare held as the sacred animals of Arachnidia Lilith, and it is therefore strictly taboo to intentionallyhurt or kill them. On those occasions when dead spiders are needed for some of the rites of61