Lilith: the mother of vampires

Lilith: the mother of vampires.

We owe the prophet Isaiah one of the most devastating and distressing versions of the myth of this woman; She was demonized and turned into a symbol of shame, precisely because she was the first creature who wanted to be a woman and not just a procreative womb at the service of the community of the righteous.

“…and in his palace the brambles will grow…”

The prophet maintains in the first part of his book, at least of the book normally attributed to him, which is also the least suspected of being apocryphal and the one with the most profound poetic scope:

“In its fortresses the nettles and thistles will take root and will be the abode of jackals. There Lilith will also rest, and will find her resting place.”

Dismal kingdom inhabited by demons, satyrs, wild dogs and cats, incubator of snakes and home of vultures and carrion beasts; cut that, in short, Yahweh usually groups together when he gets angry.

This is the site that the Bible imagines as the residence of Adam’s first wife.

The origin of Lilith.

Lilith was, above all, a female demon of the storm in the Babylonian pantheon, called Lajil (meaning “night”) by the Canaanites.

Lilith She appears in heterodox tradition as the “enemy of Eve”, whom her husband abandoned after the birth of Abel and immediately before the birth of Cain; begotten, according to evil tongues, by the demon Samael. In the orthodox version Cain is instead the firstborn.

The skilled interpreters of the Talmud put a twist on the legend, suggesting that it was Lilithand not Eve, Adam’s first wife, whom this male prototype repudiated because she did not submit to the archetype of the obedient and submissive wife that God had promised him.

For this reason, God decided that it was essential to resort to the Adamic rib to create an ideal substitute for Lilith: the predictable and dull Eve, mother of the human species and paradigmatic example of the monotonous resignation that society demands of women.

But eroticism and motherhood are rarely reconciled, at least for the mentality that reigned at that time; and the late Adam clandestinely returned to the arms of Lilith to enjoy her caresses, naturally, inappropriate for a mother and a wife.

This story explains why Lilith She ended up becoming the queen of the succubi, the tireless infertile temptress, the apex of men’s obsessions and erotic fantasies; she the vamp par excellence: paradigmatic, archetypal, condemned to wander without direction or refuge through the darkness of the world.

This is the main idea that sacred texts offer us about feminine nature: a supposed fascination with debauchery and sin, only correctable through rigor and submission.

And it was thanks to this founding idea that the Bustuariae, the Hierodules of ancient times, were savagely condemned and the medieval witches who comforted the dispossessed in the vicinity of the villages and forests sponsored by Lucifer were burned by the thousands.

The mother of vampires.

Let us now see why it is considered Lilith as mother of vampires.

According to biblical myth, when Lilith She refused to stay under Adam during the sexual act, she fled into the night, transforming into a gust of cold air. Some speculate that a party of angels sent by God managed to trap her on the banks of the Red Sea, but others maintain that this escape provided her with a direct passage to immortality.

It is at this point where the myth breaks. Lilith It moves from angry protest and timid resistance to direct action.

Hebrew tradition states that, immediately after his escape, Lilith He began to take revenge through an abominable act: infanticide.

To understand the true meaning of this atrocious revenge we must first delve into the meaning of what unleashed Lilith’s rebellion.

Lilith It kills and feeds on babies for a very simple reason. At the time when the legend developed, it was believed that pregnancy only occurred when the woman adopted a passive position in bed. Therefore we can conclude that what Lilith What she wanted (when she fled from Adam) was to become pregnant.

Underlying Lilith’s hasty escape is a strong declaration of principles: denying the supposed destiny of motherhood that has weighed on women since the dawn of civilization, knowing that the acceptance of such a destiny is also a resignation of other fundamental aspects of femininity.

Within this context, it is natural that Lilith’s revenge falls on what she hated the most.

The story of Lilith It becomes more and more complex as we go deeper into it. But prudence advises avoiding classical interpretations and, instead, using intuition and imagination to resolve the motives for their behavior.

Lilith She channels her revenge by hitting where it hurts a mother the most: her children. And her revenge grew to devastating proportions.

According to some texts from the Babylonian Talmud, Lilith He managed to escape the curse that God sent to men after the fall of Adam and Eve, caused by eating an apple that never existed. The founding couple lost immortality, but Lilith He avoided punishment by not being present in Eden during that conflict.

As? Very simply, Lilith was not present in Paradise because she is the night, the darkness, that which moves in the darkness. Original sin occurred during the day; as can be seen from the analysis of Genesis. For this reason Lilith He preserved his immortality, something truly annoying if one is a creature condemned by God.

Thus Lilith It went down in the history of myth and legend; simply as the antagonist of Eve; -prototype of the wife-mother-, enemy of the home and the submission that society imposes on all women.

And so Lilith became what she already was: the night, with all its mysteries and secrets; eternal, immortal, scene of the acts that, due to its abominable nature, must be committed under the mantle of its prudent darkness.

Lilith’s condemnation is, in part, a declaration of perpetual rebellion: she will drink blood from still-throbbing necks and will always remain thirsty, she will feed on our nightmares, and, despite the obvious paradox, popular tradition will end up assigning her an epithet of motherhood that is also a sign of disgrace: Mother of Vampires.

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