Lilith Sigil Stainless Steel Necklace

Lilith isn’t named in most versions of the Bible. In the first chapter of Genesis, it is written that God created humankind, male and female, equally in his image. Later, we see Adam alone in the garden in need of an appropriate helpmeet, and Eve is born from Adam’s rib. Some believe the serpent that later tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a version of Lilith herself.

According to Jewish mythology, Adam’s first marriage didn’t go so well. He demanded submission from Lilith, insisting she “sleep” beneath him and follow his rules as well as God’s. Lilith knew well enough that she was as powerful, as worthy and as free as Adam, and rules could not contain her—especially those written by an arbitrary authoritarian patriarchy. She was thus banished from the Garden of Eden and went on to mother hundreds of thousands of “demons.”