![]() When he finished, he realized that all the animals had a partner except for him, and he asked God for one. The king asked him the meaning of the amulet, and Ben Sira told him Lilit’s part in the biblical story of creation: after the animals were made, Adam was given the task of naming them. Lilit’s story is told in the book The Alphabet of Ben Sira from the 10th century, which is named after a scholar who gave Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, an amulet with the names of three angels. ![]() She grew up in the Middle East, and some say that prior to being Jewish she emerged from Sumerian and Akkadian female demons, called lili and lilu. I hadn’t seen her in years, since my childhood in Jerusalem. ![]() Just before the COVID-19 pandemic Lilit suddenly showed up.
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