Lilith, Eve and KundryWho is Lilith?Lilith is a figure in Jewish mythology and folklore. Her legend was developed in the Babylonian Talmud (3rd to 5th century CE). Lilith's story seems to have been invented to reconcile the different creation myths of Genesis chapters 1 and 2. According to the Talmud, Adam had a wife before Eve, whose name was Lilith. In Jewish folklore (at least from the Alphabet of Sirach onwards), it was Lilith who was created at the same time and from the same clay as Adam, as described in Genesis 1. Then Eve was created from one of Adam's ribs, as described in Genesis 2.
 Right: Lilith, by John Collier. Adam and Lilith
Lilith Ur-teufelin
 Left: Lilith, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Lilith in Kabbala
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he rabbis began with the Biblical reference to man's first creation as a bisexual being: 
f woman was created from Adam, after his initial creation, than what happened to the female created at first? The
answer, according to the Midrash, was that she was Lilith; created with Adam, she refused to comply with Adam's demand that she submit herself to him, and in the
end fled from him by using the Ineffable Name. Adam then complained to God about his loneliness, and the creation of Eve followed, together with the Fall
and the Expulsion from Eden. Adam, blaming this on Eve, separated from her, and for a time reunited with Lilith, before finally returning to Eve. The legend
developed extensively during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadah, the Zohar, and Jewish mysticism. For example, in the 13th-century writings of Isaac ben
Jacob ha-Cohen, Lilith left Adam after she refused to become sexually subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she had coupled with
the great demon Samael. In another account she becomes the consort of the demon Asmodeus (or perhaps there are two Liliths, one of whom is the respective consort
of each of these demons).
ilith is often envisioned as a dangerous demon of the night, an incubus or a succubus, a sexual predator. She
steals babies in the darkness and charms have to be used to keep her away from them. Lilith may be linked to a historically earlier class of female demons (lilitu)
in ancient Mesopotamian religion, to whom references have been found in cuneiform texts of Sumer, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, and Babylonia. She is sometimes
identified with the maiden who lived beside Inanna's huluppu tree.
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