dark mother

[egypturnash]

Earlier this week a drawing jumped out of my sketchbook at me and demanded to go through the Illustrator process. I believe it's from May.

This happens, sometimes. Sometimes weird significance accretes, as well.


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The basic figure was done and the background was starting to happen when a connection suddenly happened in my brain. A little Googling later, I decided that, yes, this seemed to be Lilith. Depending on how you read things, she is...

• Adam's first wife, who fled Eden rather than submit to him, never Fell, and sort of became a demon who's responsible for crib-death.
• the remnant of some proto-Hebrew Mother Goddess, who got demonized when Yahweh got all pissy about being the One And Only God.
• the female half of a demonic male/female pair that mirrors Adam and Eve - her husband is one Samel. In this version she may or may not be, or have begun as, a sort of conjoinment with Samel, and Adam and Eve begain as one conjoined being as well.
• the result of several generations of half-mad Kabbalist scholars taking one line in the Bible a bit too literally and creating a myth to explain it out of next to nothing.

Religion is funny that way.

The text is from various sources found during that Googling: the main text is an excerpt from Kabbalistic literature, streamlined, and the very faint text in the background is the beginning of a ritual for summoning her. Which I had a moment of dubiousness at pasting in.

I keep being vaguely drawn to Dark Feminine Principle kinds of deities lately. I don't know why.