#147 Lilith
original carved from butternut Click here to see a slideshow of developing Lilith
This image of Lilith is based largely on a Sumerian clay tablet relief from
2000 BC. She wears the horned crown that marks her as a Goddess not a demon
in Sumerian mythology. Lilith appears in Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian,
Canaanite, Persian, Hebrew, Arabic and Teutonic mythology. She is also
known as Adam's "first wife" who refused to "lie beneath." In
the oldest mythologies she is a Goddess and in later stories she is demonized.
Lilith
is a motherless form of the divine feminine even known to some as the wife
of Yahweh. As the embodiment of the neglected, outcast and rejected aspects
of the Great Goddess she calls women to rise up in strength to reclaim their
own divinity.
Available Finishes: Stone and Rosewood
Size: 11 3/4" x 5 3/4" x 5 1/4"
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