Lilith (first name)

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Lilith is a female given name .

Origin and meaning

The name Lilith is derived from the Sumerian name DINGIR LIL.du as goddess Lildu ( goddess of the wind at high altitudes ). Her name changed to Lili-tu in the Babylonian language . In the later Semitic language , the term laila ( night ) was used from Lili-tu .

In the Sumerian epic Inanna and the Ḫuluppu tree , the deity Lildu plays an opaque role and is expelled because Inanna wants to cut the tree to make a chair and bed out of it. Her name is subsequently used in conjunction with the ancient oriental demon Lili-tu (Lilith). The later Hebrew adoption of the name Lilith ( Hebrew לילית) means "the nocturnal." In Talmudic sources Lilith haunted around as a night demon in the 3rd to 5th centuries AD and was only raised to Adam's first wife from the 9th century AD, who was similar to the Sumerian Lilith Was the cause of the expulsion from Paradise .

Lilith became a symbol in feminism as a counter-heroine to the biblical Eve , who stands in the patriarchal tradition. Lilith was a popular name for the first women's bookstores and women's cafés, and was subsequently also used as a female first name.

variants

  • Lilit
  • Lillith
  • Lilith
  • Lillit

Well-known namesake

Lilith:

Lilit:

stage name

  • Lilith Love (* 1964), former artist name of Henriëtte Johanna Ignatia Maria van Gasteren, Dutch art photographer and visual artist

See also

Individual evidence

  1. George, AR, Rogers D. Spotswood Collection .: The epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian epic poem and other texts in Akkadian and Sumerian . London, ISBN 978-0-14-044919-8 .