WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.740 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.740 --> 00:00:03.450 align:middle line:84% Another story about Adam and Eve is 00:00:03.450 --> 00:00:07.470 align:middle line:84% that it's not Adam and Eve, but Adam and Lilith and then 00:00:07.470 --> 00:00:09.840 align:middle line:90% Adam and Eve. 00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:13.320 align:middle line:84% That Lilith was created with Adam and not out of dirt 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:14.670 align:middle line:90% either-- 00:00:14.670 --> 00:00:17.940 align:middle line:84% I mean, not out of Adam's side, but out of the same dirt 00:00:17.940 --> 00:00:20.250 align:middle line:90% as Adam was created. 00:00:20.250 --> 00:00:26.910 align:middle line:84% And this being Adam's first marriage as well. 00:00:26.910 --> 00:00:30.150 align:middle line:84% She was then kicked out of the Garden of Eden 00:00:30.150 --> 00:00:32.490 align:middle line:84% by God because Adam complained about her. 00:00:32.490 --> 00:00:35.400 align:middle line:90% 00:00:35.400 --> 00:00:37.110 align:middle line:90% He was most unhappy with her. 00:00:37.110 --> 00:00:40.770 align:middle line:90% She had totally her own will. 00:00:40.770 --> 00:00:42.240 align:middle line:84% She would, for instance, according 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:43.865 align:middle line:84% to some of the varieties of alleged not 00:00:43.865 --> 00:00:47.250 align:middle line:84% sleep under him when they made love, but wanted 00:00:47.250 --> 00:00:50.620 align:middle line:84% to sleep at least part of the time over him. 00:00:50.620 --> 00:00:54.630 align:middle line:84% She also apparently had an uncanny scream when she came 00:00:54.630 --> 00:00:55.830 align:middle line:90% and this terrified Adam. 00:00:55.830 --> 00:01:00.690 align:middle line:90% 00:01:00.690 --> 00:01:02.370 align:middle line:84% She would not do all of the things 00:01:02.370 --> 00:01:04.950 align:middle line:84% that he wanted her to do in general and maintaining 00:01:04.950 --> 00:01:08.963 align:middle line:90% the garden and so on. 00:01:08.963 --> 00:01:10.880 align:middle line:84% And so he went to God and complained and said, 00:01:10.880 --> 00:01:13.640 align:middle line:90% this is not a fit helpmate. 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:15.200 align:middle line:84% And God said, Lilith, what do you 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:17.960 align:middle line:84% have to do-- what do you have to say for yourself? 00:01:17.960 --> 00:01:20.750 align:middle line:84% And she said, I've already said it. 00:01:20.750 --> 00:01:23.240 align:middle line:84% And that I'm my own person and so on. 00:01:23.240 --> 00:01:27.080 align:middle line:84% And so she was expelled from Eden for pride or whatever. 00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:31.322 align:middle line:84% And went down to the banks of a river, which is named-- 00:01:31.322 --> 00:01:33.530 align:middle line:84% in which I can't remember the name of right offhand-- 00:01:33.530 --> 00:01:37.010 align:middle line:84% where she consorted with devils and conceived 1,000 demons 00:01:37.010 --> 00:01:40.164 align:middle line:90% daily ever since. 00:01:40.164 --> 00:01:43.531 align:middle line:90% [GIGGLING] 00:01:43.531 --> 00:01:46.900 align:middle line:90% 00:01:46.900 --> 00:01:48.640 align:middle line:84% She's also-- this is, by the way, 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:50.650 align:middle line:84% was omitted from the Old Testament. 00:01:50.650 --> 00:01:54.790 align:middle line:84% It was one of the of the legends that was definitely 00:01:54.790 --> 00:01:57.850 align:middle line:84% around and, like Ecclesiastes, got in by the skin of its teeth 00:01:57.850 --> 00:02:00.470 align:middle line:84% by a good deal of rewriting, of course, 00:02:00.470 --> 00:02:04.360 align:middle line:84% at the end of it to slip it through. 00:02:04.360 --> 00:02:06.760 align:middle line:84% But it's been preserved, for instance, 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:13.750 align:middle line:84% in a number of old traditional Judaic wedding ceremonies. 00:02:13.750 --> 00:02:16.218 align:middle line:84% There'll be a candle lit in each corner of the room 00:02:16.218 --> 00:02:18.010 align:middle line:84% and it's seldom explained what this is for. 00:02:18.010 --> 00:02:21.160 align:middle line:84% But what it's for is to terrify the spirit of Lilith 00:02:21.160 --> 00:02:24.820 align:middle line:84% because Lilith does not like Eve very much. 00:02:24.820 --> 00:02:27.940 align:middle line:84% Lilith does not very much like the domesticated woman 00:02:27.940 --> 00:02:29.410 align:middle line:84% because the domesticated woman took 00:02:29.410 --> 00:02:32.570 align:middle line:84% from her what she considered to be her rightful place. 00:02:32.570 --> 00:02:35.545 align:middle line:84% And so she will try by various means to lure the husband away. 00:02:35.545 --> 00:02:39.660 align:middle line:90% 00:02:39.660 --> 00:02:42.540 align:middle line:84% How she is pictured-- these are the basic parts of the story-- 00:02:42.540 --> 00:02:45.300 align:middle line:84% how she is pictured then in various mythologies 00:02:45.300 --> 00:02:49.110 align:middle line:84% will vary widely from a sexual prodigy on the one hand, 00:02:49.110 --> 00:02:53.160 align:middle line:84% to a demon on the other hand, to a savior on the other hand. 00:02:53.160 --> 00:02:59.340 align:middle line:90% 00:02:59.340 --> 00:03:05.030 align:middle line:84% "I awakened to the dark figure of a woman coming down upon me. 00:03:05.030 --> 00:03:07.880 align:middle line:84% Eyes wide in her decomposing face. 00:03:07.880 --> 00:03:09.590 align:middle line:90% Dead mouth opening. 00:03:09.590 --> 00:03:12.590 align:middle line:90% Body opening to take my body in. 00:03:12.590 --> 00:03:15.500 align:middle line:84% The seed I cannot hold against the terrible thrilling 00:03:15.500 --> 00:03:17.480 align:middle line:90% of our need. 00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:18.800 align:middle line:90% She turns away. 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:23.680 align:middle line:84% I wake, as from a dream still vivid in the air." 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:25.454 align:middle line:90%