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Etymology of Angel Names in DF
megarows:
I understand the spatial difference, but there is a link in the mythology, I think via Phoenicia. I don't know if it applies to Lilith. See Minerva, and the Ishtar / Astarte influences. And lamia is how Romans translated Lilith. Perhaps for the etymology that Foxed notes.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: megarows on July 06, 2015, 09:09:48 PM ---I understand the spatial difference, but there is a link in the mythology, I think via Phoenicia. I don't know if it applies to Lilith. See Minerva, and the Ishtar / Astarte influences.
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Im interested, but Im not finding an mention of it, at least not in the link you provided.
Griffyn612:
I thought Lilith was just a made-up story by some dude who's wife cheated on him or left him, so he had a story added about a deceitful whore of a First Wife of Adam?
megarows:
--- Quote from: Quantus on July 06, 2015, 09:18:38 PM ---Im interested, but Im not finding an mention of it, at least not in the link you provided.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni_(mythology) has the link to Astarte.
--- Quote ---I thought Lilith was just a made-up story by some dude who's wife cheated on him or left him, so he had a story added about a deceitful whore of a First Wife of Adam?
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Would trusted scholars be so petty? Anyway, she existed elsewhere in myth first.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on July 06, 2015, 09:37:49 PM ---I thought Lilith was just a made-up story by some dude who's wife cheated on him or left him, so he had a story added about a deceitful whore of a First Wife of Adam?
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Nah, nothing so simple, or settled for that matter. There's lots and lots of debate, but general sense seems to be that she was a borrowed figure from other, mostly older polytheistic traditions. Some have her as an individual figure, many others as a class of demon. Looks like the oldest mention is in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which was one of the relative few that actually specified a singular entity.
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