( I don’t know if this is how it really goes…but this is my understanding of it & a little sarcasm too )
God had created all of the animals, and the things that swam, and flew, and determined that is was time to create something that had dominion over all of them, because you see, even then God believed that hierarchies were the best way to go. So he opted to Create Adam...and Lillith. They were created at the same time, from the same substance, and received the breath of life as one. God introduced them to each other saying Adam, this is Lillith, your helpmate. Lillith, this is Adam your mate. Lillith noticed a problem in the fact that se was expected to help Adam, but he had no such obligation to her. But she kept quiet, deciding to examine this new environment that she was introduced to. The animals, and the things that swam and flew were presented to them, and Adam named each of them.
Lillith had meanwhile wandered off to see the plants and trees of the Garden. Lillith stopped at one tree, and feeling hunger, ate a fruit from it. ( Yeah THAT tree…*shrugs* how was she to know any better?? ) And with the awareness of the Fruit, she began to wonder… why does Adam get to do everything, and I am cast to the side? She was fully aware of their creation…from the same substance, and that they both received the breath of life as one…but somehow, she was cast aside. Lillith, having eaten the Fruit of Logic ( what did YOU think the fruit granted??) decided to wait, and see perhaps if there was SOMETHING that she would be called upon first to do.
They (Lillith, Adam & God) lived in the garden for a while, with Lillith always in the wings, waiting for her moment to arrive. Adam and God were close, always exploring and examining something new, and while Lillith was always THERE…she was never included. Then, one day Adam came to her and said ‘God has decided that it is time for you to fulfill your position, to do your duty’ Lillith, who had been waiting for this point for quite a while, rejoiced. ‘What is this position which I have been created for?’ she inquired, wondering what wondrous thing she was destined to do. Adam lay her on her back, and began to have sex with her. Lillith, confused, but enjoying it, aid nothing until he was done. He then told her ‘This is your position, on your back to receive my Seed, and on your back to bear my children.” Lillith was astonished to say the least, that of all the wondrous things that the word had presented them to do, she was destined to do only one.
She refused, saying that she was flesh of his flesh, and blood of his blood, and that she could not accept that God had created her for this single purpose. Adam informed her that it was God himself who had decided this, and that as his creation, she had no choice in the matter. Lillith, using her logic that the Fruit had granted her decided that there was always a choice, even if the other options were unpalatable and painful. Lillith then said “I will leave this garden, and find my own way, my own destiny, and my own God, who will allow me to explore the full ability of myself.” Adam, taken aback, cursed her for turning away from what God had ordered, and God cursed her to be forever feared, hated and viewed as an animal and cast her from the Garden. She left the Garden, and passed out of history.
But I think that Lillith lived off of the land, ( for the Garden was only a small part of Earth…but you knew that right? ) and learned from the animals, and the stars and the seas…and while she was lonely & alone, she was her own woman, fulfilling her own destiny. And, one day, she met another man, who was called Cain, and they lived together and produced children. And in the children they produced have come the extremes of society, from the simply demented psychopaths, to the frighteningly brilliant composers. You see, Adam and Eve created only duplicates of themselves, who believed that there were no other options other than what God offered, while Lillith and Cain produced children who believed that there was always another path.
And that is MY take on the legend of Lillith.
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