Lilith. The other side of femininity

A woman out of the womb of the night

Introduction: When Darkness Speaks

In every corner of the earth, the nights whisper the same name, even if the languages are different.
There is always a "she" - a woman of smoke and light, ageless and deathless, dangerously beautiful, whose eyes are like two portals to hell.
In folk tales, in the legends of forgotten villages and on the walls of ancient temples, the same faces repeat themselves: A night inhabiting a woman's body, a seduction that leads to certain doom.

It seems that the world did not invent her, but woke up one night to find her standing at his door, smiling at him from behind the fog.

The Beauty Before the Curse

في مصر، يسمّونها “الندّاهة”؛ تنادي الرجال من بين الغيطان بصوتٍ كالسحر، فتجذبهم نحو النيل ثم يبتلعهم الصمت والماء.
وفي بلاد الرافدين، تظهر “السعلاة”؛ جسدها مغطّى بالشعر، ووجهها لا يُرى إلا بعد فوات الأوان.
وفي اليمن والجزيرة يسمّونها “أم الصبيان”، العاشقة المجرّدة من الرحمة، تسكن البيوت حين ينام الأطفال، وتختار فريستها كما تختار الريح وجهتها.

In Morocco, she is transformed into Aisha Kandisha, both the seductress of men and their deaths.
With each journey to a new land, the name changes but the soul remains the same: The woman who was eaten by desire until she became pure desire, killing by whispering and seducing by looking.

The birth of a first name

أقدم أثر لاسمها وُجد منقوشًا على قرصٍ سومري من طينٍ جافٍ، منذ ما قبل الميلاد بثلاثة آلاف عام.
كانوا يسمّونها “ليليتو”، سيدة الظلال ورفيقة الفسق والشهوة.
قيل إنها عاشت داخل شجرةٍ عند ضفاف دجلة، يحرسها تنين من نار، وكانت تطير ليلاً كالعاصفة.
حين علم الملك جلجامش بأمرها، قطع الشجرة وطعن التنين، فهربت إلى الصحراء وتركَت وراءها وعدًا بالانتقام.
ومنذ تلك الليلة، لم تعد ليليتو تُرى بأعين البشر، لكنها بدأت تُرى داخل أحلامهم.

Adam's first wife

In an ancient text from "The Alphabet of Ben Sira" (Alphabet of Ben Sira), the story is told in another way:"Lilith" – not "Eve" – was Adam's first woman. She was created from the clay just like him, and life flowed into her with the same breath, so she did not see him as a master or owner.However, she rebelled when obedience was demanded of her, so she fled to the Red Sea and swore never to return.Thereupon, the Deity cursed her and transformedher into a nocturnal demoness (she-demon), roaming the horizon, searching for human children to take revenge on the offspring of the man she had rejected.

Since then, every male newborn has had to survive seven terrifying nights, with salt sprinkled around their beds and candles lit to ward off their shadows
This is how the "Sabbath" was born between ritual and awe, a folklore that people do not know that its origin is a spell against ancient Lilith.

Leith in Religions and Beliefs

In Jewish tradition, Lilith is mentioned as a "woman of demons" who sits on the banks of lakes, seducing men and strangling children.
In the Talmud, she is described as "long-haired like a snake, not to be grasped by a human hand".
She then infiltrated Christian mythology, partnering with Satan himself as a symbol of eternal temptation, sometimes depicted together as fire and night, sometimes as star and shadow.

In some later Islamic narratives, the other name - "mother of boys" - appears as a distant shadow of this ancient idea.
A female being that lives between heaven and earth, does not enter a house where the Qur'an is recited, nor does it afflict a person who carries on his chest the remembrance of God.
She is the embodiment of untamed feminine evil, the one that is not killed by the sword but by awareness, patience and faith.

Its Undying Symbols

The symbols of Lilith are repeated across the centuries:
The elongated crescent moon is like a horn.
The predatory lioness... the owl that sleeps when everyone else sleeps.
The snake that carries the first sin.
The pentagram symbolises a light falling from the sky.

Sages say that these symbols have not disappeared, but rather have remodelled themselves in religions, arts and logos, disguised under new names.
Whenever generations thought they had rid themselves of the myth of Lilith, they found it on the door of an ancient temple, in a strange poem, or in a mysterious tattoo whose meaning is unknown to its owner.

Return of the Lady of the Night

It is said that Lilith does not die, because she was not created as humans are.
She is the half that was banished from the world when men ruled the earth.
The half that lives in the long nights, in the dreams of rebellious women, and in men's fear of untamed beauty.

When the wind blows late at night and you hear a woman laughing in the distance for no reason.
Maybe it's her - hovering with her black wings around the windows of sleepers, smelling the scent of scared hearts, and smiling...

Because she knows that no matter how fortified with knowledge and faith, man will still fear the night.
In every fear, she is reborn.
She is Lilith, the daughter of the shadow, the first lady of desire, and the mother of undying myths.
It was never just a story... it was a mirror to the dark side of all of us.