Lilith i jej potomstwo w mitologii hebrajskiej oraz najnowszej kulturze popularnej – przegląd wybranych reprezentacji
Lilith and Her Offspring in Hebrew Mythology and The Latest Pop Culture – Selected Representations

Summary/Abstract: For thousands of years mythological Lilith has undergone countless transformations. Although she had been created by God himself, just like Adamand Eve, the texts do not pay her as much attention as they do to the firstmarriage. What is more, contemporary scholars of religious studies throwdoubt whether Lilith had even existed.Regardless of the Church’s or scholars’ acceptance, Lilith seems to bea character invariably present in the worldwide culture. In the dawn oftime, she served as a kind of warning, enforcing a more careful childcare– it was believed that if left without a proper care, infants might have beentaken or possessed by Lilith; in medieval times she became a symbol oflechery; contemporarily she is mainly associated with bewildering sexualgraphics and rare literary presentations which emphasize her intense sexual urges. How such transformations came to be? How the transformationof mythological Lilith over the ages looked like?

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