April 2013
About 'The Lilithiati'...
Lilith - “In Jewish folklore, from the 8th–10th centuries Alphabet of Ben Sira onwards, Lilith becomes Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time and from the same earth as Adam. This contrasts with Eve, who was created from one of Adam's ribs. The legend was greatly developed during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadic midrashim, the Zohar and Jewish mysticism. In the 13th Century writings of Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob ha-Cohen, for example, Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she mated with archangel Samael. The resulting Lilith legend is still commonly used as source material in modern Western culture, literature, occultism, fantasy, and horror.”
Ilumminati – “TheIlluminati (plural of Latin illuminatus, "enlightened") is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically the name refersto the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secretsociety founded on May 1, 1776 to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life, abuses of state power, and to supportwomen's education and gender equality. The Illuminati were outlawed along withother secret societies by the Bavarian government leadership with the encouragement of the Roman Catholic Church, and permanently disbanded in 1785. In the several years following, the group was vilified by conservative andreligious critics who claimed they had regrouped and were responsible for the French Revolution.
In subsequent use, "Illuminati" refers to various organizations claiming or purported to have unsubstantiated links to the original Bavarian Illuminati or similar secret societies, and often alleged to conspire to control world affairs by masterminding events and planting agents in government and corporations to establish a New World Order and gain further political power and influence. Central to some of the most widely known and elaborate conspiracy theories, the Illuminati have been depicted as lurking in the shadows and pulling the strings and levers of power in general popular culture.”
The Lilithiati...
Following women’s independence partly symbolized by Lilith as an icon in contemporary culture, and the irony that the initial Illuminati concept of equality turned out to become a more recent controversial conspiracy theory that are suspected to practice exactly the opposite, in order to regain a more clean concept back to its original intentions, ‘The Lilithiati’ would be, a new thought form to work with, etymologically coming from a woman’s name directly.
A woman’s name that has been demonized through the ages just because, as history and mythology says, she wanted to be treated as equal. (quoted by someone called Eva/Eve, ironically named after the submissive and passive replacement from original woman).
#Femen.org #PussyRiot #GoddessMovement
All tracks names have been chosen keeping in mind different aspects from the Goddess.
Yemaya
“Yemanja, or Yemaya, is an orisha,originally of the Yoruba religion, who has become prominent in many Afro-American religions. Africans from what is now called Yorubaland brought Yemaya/Yemoja and a host of other deities/energy forces in nature with them when they were brought to the shores of the Americas as captives. She represents the ocean, the essence of motherhood, and a protector of children.”
Naamah
“Is a demonic legendary creature, the mother of divination. How she became a demon is unclear. It is also a female given name in contemporary Israel. Literally, it means "Pleasant One". It can also refer to: thedaughter of Lamech the Cainite, in Genesis; in some extra-Biblical traditions, a"Naamah" also appears as Noah's second wife, who is sometimes said to be a daughter of Enoch; also is the name of a wife of Solomon, mother of Rehoboam; a city of Canaan,listed in Joshua 15:41,as having been conquered and subsequently settled by the Tribe of Judah; and last, a demon/angel of prostitution, one of the succubus mates of the archangel Samael in Zoharistic Kabbalah.”
Note: Strangely enough, the ‘pleasant one’ can be interpreted as, a virtuous wife, or a demon.
Ashratu
“Ashratu,or Asherah, in Semitic mythology, is a Semitic mother goddess, who appears in anumber of ancient sources including Akkadian writings by the name of Ashratum/Ashratu and in Hittite as Asherdu(s) or Ashertu(s) or Aserdu(s) or Asertu(s). Asherah is generally considered identical with the Ugaritic goddess Athirat (more accurately transcribedas ʼAṯirat).
Sheis identified as the wife or consort of the Sumerian Anu or Ugaritic El, theoldest deities of their pantheons. This role gave her a similarly high rank inthe Ugaritic pantheon. The name Allat (Elat, Ilat) in the Sanchuniathon is clearly associated with Asherah, because the same common epithet of "the goddess par excellence," is used to describe her. The Book of Jeremiah written circa 628 BC possibly refers to Asherah when it uses the title"Queen of Heaven", stating: "pray thou not for this people... the children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger."
Note: Ashratu’s lyrics were sung out of Sumerian phonetic extracts from Cults of Uruk and Babylon.
Inanna
Sumerian:Inanna; Akkadian: Ištar; is the Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare. Inanna is the goddess of love - but not marriage. She is connected with extramarital sex and sensual affairs, prowling streets and taverns for sexual adventure. In the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh,Gilgamesh points out Inanna's infamous ill-treatment of her lovers. Inanna also has a very complicated relationship with her lover, Dumuzi, in "Inanna'sDescent to the Underworld". She also is one of the Sumerian war deities:"She stirs confusion and chaos against those who are disobedient to her,speeding carnage and inciting the devastating flood, clothed in terrifying radiance. It is her game to speed conflict and battle, untiring, strapping on her sandals." Battle itself is sometimes referred to as "the dance of Inanna." Consider her description in one hymn: "When the servants let the flocks loose, and when cattle and sheep are returned to cow-pen and sheep fold, then, my lady, like the nameless poor, you wear only a single garment. The pearls of a prostitute are placed around your neck, and you are likely to snatch a man from the tavern.”Despite her association with mating and fertility of humans and animals, Inanna was not a mother goddess, although she is associated with childbirth in certain myths. Inanna also was associated with rain and storms and with the planet Venus, the morning and evening star,as was the Greco-Roman goddess Aphrodite or Venus.
Lil-la-ke
Water Spirit, or owl, both connected to Lilith. “The spirit in the tree in the Gilgamesh Epic; Samuel Noah Kramer (1932, published1938) translated ki-sikil-lil-la-ke as Lilith in "Tablet XII" of the Epic of Gilgamesh dated c.600 BC. "Tablet XII" is not part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, but is a later Akkadian translation of the latter part of the Sumerian poem of Bilgames and the Netherworld. The ki-sikil-lil-la-ke is associated with a serpentand a zu bird. In Bilgames and the Netherworld, a huluppu tree (willow) growsin Inanna's garden in Uruk, whose wood she plans to use to build a new throne. After ten years of growth, she comes to harvest it and finds a serpent living at its base, a Zu bird raising young in its crown, and that a ki-sikil-lil-la-ke made a house in its trunk. Bilgames/Gilgamesh is said to have smitten the snake, and then the zubird flew away to the mountains with its young, while the ki-sikil-lil-la-ke fearfully destroys its house and runs for the forest. Identification ki-sikil-lil-la-ke as Lilith is stated in Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (1999). According to a new source from Late Antiquity the Lilith(s) appear(s) in a Mandaic magic story where she (they) is (are)considered to represent the branch(es) of a tree with other demonic figures that form other parts of the tree. Suggested translations for the Tablet XII spirit in the tree include ki-sikil as "sacred place", lil as"spirit", and lil-la-ke as "water spirit", but also simply "owl", given that the lil is building a home in the trunk of the tree.”
Igrath
Another wife of Samael, together with Lilith.“One version that was also current among Kabbalistic circles in the Middle Ages establishes Lilith as the first of Samael's four wives: Lilith, Naamah, Igrath, and Mahalath. Each of them are mothers of demons and have their own hosts and unclean spirits in no number.
Note: Instrumental kindly used with permission.
Tawaret
In Egyptian mythology, Tawaret or Taweret (also spelled Taurt, Tuat, Taouris, Tuart, Ta-weret, and Taueret, Thouéris and Toeris) is the Egyptian goddess of childbirth and fertility. The name "Taweret" means, "she who is great"or simply, "great one". When paired with another deity, she became the wife of Apep, the devouring serpent god much feared by the Egyptians. However, the Egyptians essentially treated Taweret as a benevolent figure and this deity is attested as early as the Old Kingdom period "when she took three principal names: Opet or Ipy ('harim' or favoured place), Taweret ('the great goddess') and Reret ('the sow'). She has been linked with the fierce, devouring goddess Ammit". While there is a temple of Opet at Karnak, dating to the Late Period and Ptolemaic era, "it was the cult of Taweret that gained particular importance over time."
Note: Sound samples by Ruse23.
Anat
“Anat or Anath, Antit, Anit, Anti, or Anant; is a major northwest Semitic goddess. In the Ugaritic Ba‘al Hadad cycle, ‘Anat is aviolent war-goddess, a virgin in Ugarit, though the sister and lover of the great Ba‘al known as Hadad elsewhere. Ba‘al is usually called the son of Dagon and sometimes the son of El.‘Anat is addressed by El as "daughter". Either one relationship or the other is probably figurative. Anat's titles used again and again are "virgin ‘Anat" and "sister-in-law of the peoples" (or "progenitress of the peoples" or "sister-in-law, widow of the Li’mites"). In a fragmentary passage from Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), Syria ‘Anat appears as a fierce, wild and furious warrior in a battle, wading knee-deep in blood, striking off heads, cutting off hands, binding the heads to her torso and the hands in her sash, driving out the old men and townsfolk with her arrows, her heart filled with joy. "Her character in this passage anticipates her subsequent warlike role against the enemies of Baal".”Anat’s name is also related to Ashtart, Anu, and Athena, which in some cases, is considered derived or influenced from.
Note: Instrumental by Adam Lygo. This same song is featured on his album ‘Hourglass Sanatorium’, named as ‘Night of Escaping Shadows’.
Norea
Noreais a figure in Gnostic cosmology. Sometimes she is said to be the syzygy of Adam,or wife of Noah, and daughter of Eve. Norea is perceived within gnostic thoughtas Sophia after her fall from grace. For a longtime, Norea was known from a summary of a book called Noria in the Panarion (Against Heresies) of Epiphanius of Salamis (26.1.3-9). According to Epiphanius, the Borborites identified Norea with Pyrrha, the wife of Deucalion (a Greek figure similar to Noah), because nura means "fire" in Syriac. She burned Noah's Ark three times, then revealed the means of recovering stolen sparks through sexual emissions. Elsewhere (39.5.2) Epiphanius says that the Sethians consider Horaia to be the wife of Seth. She has several similar names, including Orea and Horaia, meaning "beautiful". The name is thought to derive from a translation of Naamah, a Hebrew name which means "pleasant". The demon Naamah is called "the younger Lilith".
Note: Sound samples by Ruse23.
Abyzou
Inthe myth and folklore of the Near East and Europe, Abyzou is the name of a female demon. Abyzou was blamed for miscarriages and infant mortality and was said to be motivated by envy, as she herself was infertile. In the Jewish tradition she is identified with Lilith, in Coptic Egypt with Alabasandria, and in Byzantine culture with Gylou, but in various texts surviving from the syncretic magical practice of antiquity and the early medieval era she is said to have many or virtually innumerable names. Abyzou (also spelled Abizou, Obizu, Obizuth, Obyzouth, Byzou etc.) is pictured on amulets with fish- or serpent-like attributes. Her fullest literary depiction is the compendium of demonology known as the Testament of Solomon, dated variously by scholars from as early as the 1st century AD to as late as the 4th. A.A. Barb connected Abyzou and similar female demons to the Sumerian myth of primeval Sea. Barb argued that although the name “Abyzou” appears to be a corrupted form of the Greek word abyssos ("the abyss"), the Greek itself was borrowed from Assyrian Apsu or Sumerian Abzu, the undifferentiated sea from which the world was created in the Sumerian belief system, equivalent to Babylonian Tiamat, or Hebrew Tehom in the Book of Genesis. The entity Sea was originally bi- or asexual, later dividing into male Abzu (fresh water) and female Tiamat (salt water). The female demons among whom Lilith is thebest-known are often said to have come from the primeval sea. In classical Greece, female sea monsters that combine allure and deadliness may also derive from this tradition, including the Gorgons (who were daughters of the old sea god Phorcys), Sirens, Harpies, and even water nymphs and Nereids.
Eisheth
In Zoharistic Kabbalah, Eisheth Zenunim is one of the four angels of sacred prostitution, the mates of the archangel Samael. Her fellow succubi are Lilith, Naamah, and Agrat Bat Mahlat. She is found in the Zohar 1:5a-b as isheth zennanim or qodeshah.
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