Queen of Succubus - Eve wasn't the first!
OK, so through a lot of theological research in my college days, I did a paper on the incubus. (Mainly because I was doing a painting called Incubus and wanted to know what I was talking about). This is an interesting turn to the Adam and Eve story. A more complete story that isn't commonly talked about:
The incubi's mythology takes its roots from many sources, but the most common from its era is the story of Lilith. This Hebrew myth calls the 'monster' Lilith, the queen and mother of succubi.
Lilith was the woman created at the same time as Adam and is often thought of as the wife who turned out badly. She is named after one of the many ancient goddesses who had been degraded into demonesses. The name is actually from the Assyrian word lay'la and in Hebrew pronounced Lil, which meant night and had already in Accadian meant 'sorcery'.
The story reads that when Lilith and Adam both met for the first time, they began to argue about the head ship that both had wanted to claim. Adam supposedly started the first conversation by asserting that he was to be the master. Lilith argued (to no avail) that she too had equal right to the position but Adam would not back down. With this, Lilith gave up arguing and uttered a certain spell that gave unto her wings. With these wings, she promptly flew out of Eden and out of sight.
When Adam realized what was happening, he complained to God that 'his' woman had left him. God sent three angels to find her and bring her back, but they could not persuade her. Lilith declaring "how could it be paradise for her if she was to be the servant of man".
God then sent the angels a second time with the choice that if she did not come back then she would be doomed to have many children but all of them would die in infancy.
In her anguish, she was about to commit suicide when the three angels took pity on her. As compensation, they agreed that she would posses full power over all children after their birth for a period of eight days. In return, she was to let alone any of the babies under the three angels' protection.
With the divorce completed, the second wife, Eve, was then formed. She was formed from Adam's own rib so that the embarrassing question of women's rights would never again arise.
Lilith met Samel when he found her lamenting her wrongs in loneliness. He was already burning with lust and envy after witnessing the pleasures of Adam and Eve. Lilith agreed to join with Samel and she became his wife; gaining the title of Queen of succubi. From there, they agreed to plot against Jehovah, Lilith for revenge and Samel to gain the pleasures of the flesh. It was through these plots that it was decided how to tempt Eve and then Adam by giving them the fruit. Once they had given into the temptation, Samel was able to enter their bodies forever and live as sin, in the hearts of man. It was through the offspring of Adam and Eve that Samel gave bodies to his minions of degenerate angels.
It was believed that any lewd thoughts entering the sleeping mind of a devout and celibate churchman, or maritally devouted church-goers (were the degenerate angels, the sons of God, the followers of Samel), must have been sent by the devil.
Some believed that the demons were basically the spawn of 'intense and lewd imagination' of men and women. Other groups of people believed that both incubi and succubi were amorous illusions and hallucinations. They were the result of religious and moral derangements and symptoms of insanity.
Whatever is believed, it will always remain as the largest manifestation in all history of man's frequent attempts to cripple and pervert his own sexuality in the name of religion.
This Part IV - the first three parts can be found here.
http://www3.telus.net/Nickel/stories.htm
The incubi's mythology takes its roots from many sources, but the most common from its era is the story of Lilith. This Hebrew myth calls the 'monster' Lilith, the queen and mother of succubi.
Lilith was the woman created at the same time as Adam and is often thought of as the wife who turned out badly. She is named after one of the many ancient goddesses who had been degraded into demonesses. The name is actually from the Assyrian word lay'la and in Hebrew pronounced Lil, which meant night and had already in Accadian meant 'sorcery'.
The story reads that when Lilith and Adam both met for the first time, they began to argue about the head ship that both had wanted to claim. Adam supposedly started the first conversation by asserting that he was to be the master. Lilith argued (to no avail) that she too had equal right to the position but Adam would not back down. With this, Lilith gave up arguing and uttered a certain spell that gave unto her wings. With these wings, she promptly flew out of Eden and out of sight.
When Adam realized what was happening, he complained to God that 'his' woman had left him. God sent three angels to find her and bring her back, but they could not persuade her. Lilith declaring "how could it be paradise for her if she was to be the servant of man".
God then sent the angels a second time with the choice that if she did not come back then she would be doomed to have many children but all of them would die in infancy.
In her anguish, she was about to commit suicide when the three angels took pity on her. As compensation, they agreed that she would posses full power over all children after their birth for a period of eight days. In return, she was to let alone any of the babies under the three angels' protection.
With the divorce completed, the second wife, Eve, was then formed. She was formed from Adam's own rib so that the embarrassing question of women's rights would never again arise.
Lilith met Samel when he found her lamenting her wrongs in loneliness. He was already burning with lust and envy after witnessing the pleasures of Adam and Eve. Lilith agreed to join with Samel and she became his wife; gaining the title of Queen of succubi. From there, they agreed to plot against Jehovah, Lilith for revenge and Samel to gain the pleasures of the flesh. It was through these plots that it was decided how to tempt Eve and then Adam by giving them the fruit. Once they had given into the temptation, Samel was able to enter their bodies forever and live as sin, in the hearts of man. It was through the offspring of Adam and Eve that Samel gave bodies to his minions of degenerate angels.
It was believed that any lewd thoughts entering the sleeping mind of a devout and celibate churchman, or maritally devouted church-goers (were the degenerate angels, the sons of God, the followers of Samel), must have been sent by the devil.
Some believed that the demons were basically the spawn of 'intense and lewd imagination' of men and women. Other groups of people believed that both incubi and succubi were amorous illusions and hallucinations. They were the result of religious and moral derangements and symptoms of insanity.
Whatever is believed, it will always remain as the largest manifestation in all history of man's frequent attempts to cripple and pervert his own sexuality in the name of religion.
This Part IV - the first three parts can be found here.
http://www3.telus.net/Nickel/stories.htm
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