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Ask Alex: Who exactly is Lilith?

This question was submitted by Jamie:

I heard the story of Lilith just the other day. Someone told me that she was Adams twin sister. Reading this I have come to know different so, who exactly is Lilith. I’m very confused about how she has originated?

Dear Jamie,

Thank you for your question. We should be very careful of what ‘people tell us’, because the truth can be most elusive, like a half-forgotten dream.

The problem with the ‘Adam and Eve’ story in the book of Genesis is that Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain rises up against his brother Abel and slays him. Then, we read, Cain ‘goes to the Land of Nod, East of Eden, where he takes for himself a wife’. My question to Christian and biblical fundamentalists has always been, who was Cain’s wife? Where did she come from, given that there were only three people left on earth? No one has ever been able to answer. Even more, Cain and his ‘wife’ build a city for themselves called Shiloh. Two people in a whole city.

So, the story in Genesis is either a complete fiction, or it is an attempt to mask and corrupt the true events of that time. I would suggest that the second solution is the most probable.

As regards who Lilith is, I think if you read the articles on the web site, and maybe the book itself, and the next book when it eventually appears, you will achieve a very good understanding of this question.

She is certainly not the wife of Cain! Heaven forbid. Nor was she ever the wife of Adam.

I can answer the riddle I have posed regarding the book of Genesis, but to be honest, I want you to desire the truth as a person in the desert desires water, and if I make it easy for you your obviously intelligent mind will not be stimulated!

Thank you for your interest.

Very best wishes,