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Isaiah 34:14 picks up the story). Gilgamesh and his men then fell the tree so Inanna can
make her bed and chair. In gratitude she makes the pukku (drum?) from the base of the
tree and the mikku (drumstick?) from the crown, and gives them to Gilgamesh. Hence
in the twelfth tablet of the epic we find Gilgamesh lamenting the loss of these objects,
the identification of which is still not certain, to the underworld. The coupling of Lilith
with the serpent in the Huluppu Tree in Inanna’s garden of course is similar to the
Garden of Eden story.
In later lore Lilith becomes a succubus and child-slayer. The Alphabet of Ben Sira
(circa AD 800) introduces the most famous element of the story, that Lilith was the first
wife of Adam who refused to lie under him for sex and abandoned him, fleeing the
Garden of Eden. This text is believed to be an early parody of Hebrew literature. Lilith
appears as the female of Samael in the Zohar (circa AD 1200), where she is described as
an abominable harlot who stands on street corners to attract men. Forlong’s A Cyclopedia
of Religions (London, 1906) makes an interesting observation: “Lilith became the consort
of Samael and together they are ‘the Beast’…”
Robert Graves and Raphael Patai note in Hebrew Myths that Asmodeus and other
demons were born of sexual union between Adam and Lilith and another like her
named Naamah, Tubal Cain’s sister, and that “Solomon suspected the Queen of Sheba
of being Lilith, because she had hairy legs”. Graves and Patai also identify the two
unnamed harlots who come before Solomon to have the ownership of a child decided
in 1 Kings 3:16 as Lilith and Naamah, presumably because a child of one of the women
has died in the night, which links with the motif of Lilith as a child-slayer and nightmonster.
The evidence for this association appears slim to me. As for there being a
relationship between Babalon and Lilith, I have found no early textual support for this
idea and so at present it remains an occult association to be further explored.
JB
Babalon the Whore: of the light?
Ok could someone please tell me what this fascination with Babalon the Whore is?
The A∴A∴, the oto, and other groups often claim to be servants of the light. I would
like to know how certain magicians who are on the right hand path, in service to the
Tetragrammaton, to purity, to light, to passiveness, to control etc can use icons such as
The Beast 666, Baphomet, and of course Babalon. In Liber ABA Crowley says that this
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