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1½ inches thick (3.75 cm)
Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
Artist thehoundofulster
Collection Gods_Goddesses_Mythology
Description Colored pencils on A4Lilith (Hebrew: Llt; Arabic: Ll) is a female Mesopotamian storm demon associated with wind and was thought to be a bearer of disease, illness, and death. The figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind and storm demons or spirits as Lilitu, in Sumer, circa 4000 BC. Many scholars place the origin of the phonetic name 'Lilith' at somewhere around 700 BC despite post-dating even to the time of Moses. Lilith appears as a night demon in Jewish lore and as a screech owl in Isaiah 34:14 in the King James version of the Bible. In later folklore, 'Lilith' is the name for Adam's first wife. Akkadian: Lltu, are female or male nisba adjectives from the proto-Semitic root L-Y-L meaning 'Night,' literally translating to nocturnal 'female night being/demon', although cuneiform inscriptions where Llt and Lltu refers to disease-bearing wind spirits existAnother possibility is association not with 'night' but with 'wind,' thus identifying the Akkadian Lil-itu as a loan from the Sumerian lil, 'air', specifically from NIN.LIL 'lady air,' goddess of the South wind (and wife of Enlil) and itud, 'moon.'Lilitu demonsThe earliest reference to a demon similar to Lilith and companion of Lillake/Lilith is on the Sumerian king list, where Gilgamesh's father is named as Lillu. Little is known of Lillu ('Wind[wer]man'; or Lilu, Lila) and he was said to interfere with women in their sleep and had functions of an incubus, while Lilitu appeared to men in their erotic dreams. Such qualities are further suggested by the Semitic associations made with the names Lila and Lilitu, namely those of lalu, or wandering about, and lulu, meaning lasciviousness.The Assyrian Lilitu were said to prey upon children and women, and were described as associated with lions, storms, desert, and disease. Early portrayals of such demons are known as having Zu bird talons for feet and wings. They were highly sexually predatory towards men, but were unable
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