The first references to Lilith appears in Sumerian tablets, dated around the third millennium BC, under the name of Lilitu or Lamatsu and surrounded by an extremely far from imagery provided by the Hebrew Talmud and the few biblical references. So what role played Lilitu in Sumerian mythology? According
narrate mythological Sumerian inscriptions, gods and demigods emerged from an infinite ocean that symbolized the primeval chaos giver of life. In those ancient times, Lilith symbolized the female part of one of the demigods Agbal hermaphrodite or flowed from the Abyss to serve the first gods of the depths. Lilith stands as a "spirit of the night wind" (translation or Lamatsu Lilitu Sumerian) whose primary mission was to guard the doors that separated the spiritual from the physical plane, acting therefore as a guide to the wisdom of immortality. It is due to his character that is depicted wearing guiding rings Shem, the oldest symbols showing that an individual has crossed into immortality and wisdom reached the Tree of Knowledge.
Sumerian iconography of Lilith is a young winged girl draws men to the temple of Ishtar for sexual rites with the virgin priestesses of the goddess to achieve a spiritual transformation and regenerate the physical body, thus prolonging the life-threatening. Thus, Lilith as "Hand of Ishtar" men a share of the mysteries of the temple rituals in which they had to exert some influence some kind of alchemy related to the menstrual blood of the priestesses.
Assyrian influences in the second half of the second millennium altered the iconography of Lilith, and subsequent Assyrian legends, is represented by the kings in his hands holding the rod and ring of royal authority, flanked by the Bird Wisdom and Léon, Beastmaster.
Lilith's relationship as a goddess of the wind with the world of classical femininity seems as settled, but how it relates to the iconography of Lilith that appears in the Hebrew Talmud and the Bible written? To this question try to answer in the next entries.
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