entities: ENT_JM_LILITH

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_JM_LILITH Lilith   Jewish Mystical Demoness Adversarial Being demoness; night; infant death; Adam's first wife; sexual danger; Sheol     PER_JM_MEDIEVAL A   Isaiah 34:14 (lilit, hapax legomenon); Babylonian Talmud (Eruvin 100b, Niddah 24b); Alphabet of Ben Sira; Zohar       Female demon; first attested as "lilit" in Isaiah 34:14 (night creature of the desolation). The Babylonian Talmud (Eruvin 100b) describes a nocturnal spirit with wings who harms men sleeping alone. The Alphabet of Ben Sira (9th–11th c. CE) develops the narrative of Lilith as Adam's first wife who refused to lie beneath him, spoke the ineffable name, and flew to the Red Sea to consort with demons. In Kabbalistic literature (Zohar, Zohar Chadash) Lilith becomes the consort of Samael, queen of the demonic realm, and the dark counterpart of the Shekhinah — embodying the "left side" of the divine feminine. demon

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