Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Etymology [ ] The - - served as derivative for the layil and layl, meaning 'night'. Mego Games Obsession Rules Ezy. The and use of Lilith is cognate with the Hebrew. In the language of and the terms lili and līlītu mean spirits.

Some uses of līlītu are listed in (CAD, 1956, L.190), in 's (AHw, p. 553), and (RLA, p. 47). The female demons lili have no etymologic relation to lilu, 'evening'. (1882) considered that Hebrew lilit (or lilith) לילית and the earlier līlītu are from.

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(1902) has this literally translating to 'female night being/demon', although inscriptions from exist where Līlīt and Līlītu refers to disease-bearing wind. [ ] Another possibility is association not with 'night', but with 'wind', thus identifying the Akkadian Lil-itu as a loan from the lil 'air' — specifically from, 'lady air', of the (and wife of ) — and itud, 'moon'. [ ] Mesopotamian mythology [ ]. Main article: The spirit in the tree in the Gilgamesh cycle [ ] (1932, published 1938) translated ki-sikil-lil-la-ke as Lilith in 'Tablet XII' of the dated c.600 BCE. 'Tablet XII' is not part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, but is a later translation of the latter part of the poem of. The ki-sikil-lil-la-ke is associated with a serpent and a.

In Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, a grows in 's garden in, 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. Gilgamesh is said to have killed the snake, and then the zu bird 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 of ki-sikil-lil-la-ke as Lilith is stated in (1999).

According to a new source from Late Antiquity, Lilith appears in a magic story where she is considered to represent the branches of a tree with other demonic figures that form other parts of the tree, though this may also include multiple 'Liliths'. 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.

A connection between the Gilgamesh ki-sikil-lil-la-ke and the Jewish Lilith was rejected by (1932) and rejected on textual grounds by Sergio Ribichini (1978). The bird-footed woman in the Burney Relief [ ]. Babylon (1800–1750 BCE). Some scholars (e.g.

) identified the figure in the relief with Lilith, based on a misreading of an outdated translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Modern research has identified the figure as one of the main goddesses of the Mesopotamian pantheons, most probably. Kramer's translation of the Gilgamesh fragment was used by (1937) and (1937) to support identification of a woman with wings and bird-feet in the as related to Lilith, but this has been rejected by later sources, including the, which is in current possession of the piece. The terracotta plaque depicts a beautiful, naked goddess-like sylph with bird-like features who stands atop two lions and between two owls. Although once believed to be the actual image of Lilith, it is now thought to possibly represent, the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, beauty, war, and sexual desire. The depiction of the nocturnal and predatory owls, however, have led many to believe the relief is an affirmation of Lilith’s role as a demon who flies about the underworld, delivering night terrors to those who sleep.