Spells are cast on her
Humanity mourns
They searched the dark woods
For the cloak that could save her
Only to find it in shreds
Humanity mourns
For Eve lost her innocence
And cannot put it back again
Spells are cast on her
And the world has grown dark
Frigidity replaced her soft soul
Humanity mourns
Yearning of the trees
That would once bloom
In April, May & June
Has turned to dried leaves
Which now can cover no one
Humanity mourns
Adamant adventurers
Search under rocks
Under roots and piles of leaves
For the magic words
to break the spell~
Eve must wake up!
Only with her awakening
Will the rigidness of humanity end
For it has no chance
Underneath her rays of her light
In the world
Where no work is left undone
Eve will most definitely wake
She will lift her face to see
Reality, as it should be
Leaves will uncurl
And offer shade again
And us?
We will sit down to eat
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Eve or Lilith*, I wonder…..
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I had to look up Lilith. I would say she is Eve’s twin. Eve is the innocent one while Lilith is the temptress, maybe?
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Interesting thought. In the later stories (from the 8th Century) she is created at the same time as Adam, & from the same earth. She is exiled from Eden because she won’t accept Adam’s authority. God then creates Eve from Adam’s rib to ensure she is always subservient to him. So Lilith is the real woman while Eve is the plastic sex-doll?
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Joseph Campbell would say that all mythology represents an aspect of our human experience. When I wrote about Eve as representing all women, I did not yet know about Lilith.
Lilith doesn’t seem like the woman that anyone can fuck with. Eve, on the other hand, she’s the one who needs “salvation” because she was born into an abusive situation. And since women have been abused historically, I would say Eve is the myth to use. Lilith is already awake and in her power.
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“Lilith is already awake and in her power.”
Perfectly phrased.
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The legend also says that she’s knows as a “demon”, so I’m trying to understand that. Are demons necessarily bad? Or were they a metaphor to represent an aspect of us that religion has tried to suppress?
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The older Jewish “demons” are spirits (very vague, usually other religions/civilizations gods) but in the later traditions demons are fallen angels, part of the third of the host that rebelled against God & were expelled from Paradise when they lost the war. Liltih may have originally been part of a Babylonian pantheon (possibly she is even as old as the Gilgamesh stories – the very first stories that people ever told). The more “fun” story about her being Adam’s first wife, appears around the 730s and may come a misinterpretation of religious paintings in Jordan & Iraq.
And demons only get referred to as bad by the Peoples of the Book; in other more pluralistic religions they are simply described as “bright”.
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oh wow, very educational! Thank you!
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