Lilith painting

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Lilith was the first wife of Adam who left the Garden of Eden and became the mother of demons and the supreme empress of Hell. She is also credited as the creator of the Turok-Han, an ancient species of vampire, and is thus regarded as the Mother of Vampires. The Babylonians identified her as a storm demon known as "Lilitu" in ancient Mesopotamian myth around 3000 BC and she was thought to have been the cause of disease, illness, and death. A female demon of the night who supposedly flies…

Tate on Instagram: "🌹 Meet Lady Lilith, a portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first painted in 1868 to show Fanny Cornforth, then altered in 1872 to represent Alexa Wilding. Gabriel associates Lilith with feminine power, connecting her to ‘New Women’ of the time who were campaigning for equal rights. In a sonnet inscribed on the frame of the painting, Gabriel describes sensual love and ‘the perilous principle in the world being female from the first’. For Gabriel, hair was an expression of…