Ok, this is probably my last “favorite deity” ramble for today. But on the subject of BAMFS…
Y'all heard of Adam and Eve. But few people know about Adam’s first wife before her, whose myths trace back earlier than the original scripts of the Bible (Which she was omitted in because she was a “bad” role model for women to follow.) Her name was Lilith.
Although accounts of her vary widely, I have a personal canon for her which takes bits from all the different accounts. Basically, God created Adam and Lilith as equals. This became a problem when Lilith wanted to be on top. (I’m not making this up, this what it actually says!) She and Adam had a huge fight over it, and it culminated with her leaving the Garden of Eden in a huff.
Adam got all whiny, and said “Gooood, I’m lonely, make me another one.” But God thought it would be best to try to reconcile first, so he sent some angels out to the wilderness to bring Lilith back. In the meantime, she’d been fornicating with some demons and made lots of little demon babies. When the angels refused to listen to her side of the story and tried to drag her back, a battle between her demon babies and the angels ensued- sadly, all her children died. The angels returned to a now rather disgruntled God to report what happened.
“Fine,” he said, “I’ll make you another one.” And so he did, making Adam’s new partner from Adam’s rib, so she’d be subservient to him. Finally, Adam’s little ego was appeased and he stopped whining.
Then God was like “By the way, Adam, don’t eat these apples, ok.”
And Adam was like “Whatever.”
Then, Lilith decided to come back to the garden. At this time, she’d started to take on a less human form, having the upper body of a woman, but the lower half of a snake. She saw Eve, Adam’s new wife, and went to her. “Hey Eve, check it out, you should totally eat this apple, and you’ll see the truth.” You see, Lilith could see potential in Eve, and fancied having a feminist ally.
Eve was like “Ok, cool!” and ate it without knowing any better. Then she was like “Hey Adam, this is awesome, you should try it."
And Adam was like, "Oh, you mean eat that thing God totally told me not to eat…? Ok fine, I’ll just blame it on you if he finds out.”
And that’s exactly what happened. And for the rest of eternity, Adam kept whining and blaming Eve for everything. >8(
And Lilith was like “CURSES!!” and spent the rest of her life snatching human babies in revenge for all hers that were killed by angels.
THE END
I would kind of like to re-write the whole Bible like this.
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