How does the transformation Sumerian iconography of the Lilith Lilith Hebrew and Christian conceived as a demon? Assyrian influences during the second half of the second millennium BC and altered the iconography of the Sumerian Lilith, ignoring its connection with the sexual rites associated with the worship of the goddess Ishtar. During the last decades of Assyrian domination ended the sexual rites held at the temple, thus eliminating the ordination of women and imposing a religion marked by the strong presence of male gods who symbolized and reinforced the image of a centralized political power exclusively in men of royal descent. The
afianziamiento only a male priesthood and the decline of the cult of the goddess Ishtar Lilith stripped of his semi-divine aura, and became depicted as a demonic figure is attributed to the premature death of newborn babies and natural abortions. Lilith leaves der to be the image of fertility to be linked to infertility and death in newborns, an iconography that will retrieve the Talmud and Hebrew biblical texts.
But before dealing with the concept that Jews and Christians held in Lilith, we briefly discuss the image that it adopt the Greeks. The downside to the Assyrians imposed Lilith is now fully established among the Greeks who identify it with Lamia (derivative of Lamastu Sumerian name), a being malicious and comparable to the striga and empusa, all female demons. In the legend, Lamia was the daughter of Poseidon and queen of Libya Sibilia. Lamia had been attracted by her beauty the interest of Zeus with whom he fathered several children, until Hera, Zeus's wife discovered him and took revenge forcing her to eat their own offspring and be condemned to being unable to close her eyes so that was always obsessed with the image of their children dead. But Lamia, instead of going to Zeus and ask for his protection fled, and he ended up denying it even gave the gift to be drawn and eyes to rest. Lamia
But before dealing with the concept that Jews and Christians held in Lilith, we briefly discuss the image that it adopt the Greeks. The downside to the Assyrians imposed Lilith is now fully established among the Greeks who identify it with Lamia (derivative of Lamastu Sumerian name), a being malicious and comparable to the striga and empusa, all female demons. In the legend, Lamia was the daughter of Poseidon and queen of Libya Sibilia. Lamia had been attracted by her beauty the interest of Zeus with whom he fathered several children, until Hera, Zeus's wife discovered him and took revenge forcing her to eat their own offspring and be condemned to being unable to close her eyes so that was always obsessed with the image of their children dead. But Lamia, instead of going to Zeus and ask for his protection fled, and he ended up denying it even gave the gift to be drawn and eyes to rest. Lamia
had not passed the test the will of the gods had established and, sorrowing, was transformed into a night to be equipped with marine extremities, possibly due to the aqueous nature inherited from his father Poseidon, god the sea. Lamia, feeling envious of other mothers, the children devoured them to feed on blood and curse the life they had been convicted.
The imagery used to represent Greek Lamia as a woman with sea serpent limbs and breasts and female face. This representation, which is closer to the Hebrew and Christian iconography of Lilith that Sumerian image I mentioned in the previous entry, will evolve to show us a primal Eva determined by the biblical Genesis and the Hebrew Talmud bases.
The imagery used to represent Greek Lamia as a woman with sea serpent limbs and breasts and female face. This representation, which is closer to the Hebrew and Christian iconography of Lilith that Sumerian image I mentioned in the previous entry, will evolve to show us a primal Eva determined by the biblical Genesis and the Hebrew Talmud bases.
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