Lilith: The Alphabet Of Ben Sira

demon can be found in many other cultures, such as the Iranian, Babylonian, Mexican, Greek, Arabian, English, German, Oriental, and even Native American (Hefner NP Online ). These demons that are “Lilith” like, consist of a winged female demon, who has the power to be extremely fertile. In the Alphabet of Ben Sira, Lilith leaves Adam. Upon her leaving, Adam calls upon God asking if he could do anything about her leaving. God then sends 3 angels after Lilith; Snwy, Snsnwy, and Smnglf, whom threaten Lilith, if she does not return to Adam, one hundred of her sons would die every day. She still refuses to return to the man whom thinks she should be submissive in many ways to him. She claimed to the angels that she was created to harm newborn infants,
and that she was going to continue to do so. However, the angels warned Lilith that if she saw the image of the angels in the form of an amulet, that she will lose her powers to kill the infant (AICE NP Online). That being said, it shows up in text from different cultures that women hung the angel amulets up around the children’s bed when they slept, to keep Lilith from draining the infants blood, strangling them, eating the marrow, and eventually consuming the flesh. (Freedman 324-325) Due to Adam losing out on having Lilith, the original human feminine, God created another woman to serve in her place. This time, he created her from Adam’s rib that way she had to remain submissive to him as a dominant male. Eve then became the basic wife and soon to be the biological mother. Since Lilith was no longer earthbound, she remained living in the Reed Sea and was reduced to an abnormal reality and became unconscious to her sense of feminine life (Vogelsang 154). This then brought research to the story of Adam and Eve. This is the story that most people have heard of at some point in their life. The only issue is, Lilith is not