There are many different theories about different people in the Bible. Many people have different reasons why they theorize different things. Some things can be taken out of context, while people think some words and phrases symbolize a person or place. There are a lot of things that would go into making something fact or fiction, or something that we honestly don't know about. Some of the things we honestly don't know about are the unnamed people as well as the names of the fallen angels that followed Lucifer when he fell from grace. There are many theories about the different books of the Bible; one of those theories is that Adam had a wife before Eve. There are ideas about this woman, who she is, and how she came about and why she isn't mentioned. Her name is Lilith.
The ideas on Lilith begin with the book of Genesis, where many have seen a discrepancy within the scriptures. Genesis 1:27 says "So God created man and woman in his own image; in the image of him; male and female he created them." Farther in chapter 2 verse 22 it says "Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken from the man, and he brought her to the man." Many see these two verses as describing two different women. One created equally from the sand with Adam, and then one created from his rib. It is because of these two verse standing on their own that people think Adam had a wife before Eve: Lilith. The theory is that Lilith did not want to be subservient to Adam. She spoke the four letter name of God and was banished from Eden. Other theories Such as that of Alan G. Hefner, is that Lilith was actually a twin sister that demanded equality, but nothing seems to have stemmed from that theory.
Along with the theory of being Adam's first wife Alan Hefner says that Lilith did not want to submit to Adam sexually and went to the Red Sea. When Adam complained, God sent angels to retrieve her. While at the Red Sea Lilith mated with demons and bore 100 children a day. If she refused to return to Adam with Sanoi, Sansenoi, and Sammangelof she would lose each of the children she bore. Lilith returns to Adam years later, but only to seduce him as a succubus would and bears demons. It is also said she bore demons to Cain after he murders Abel. Some say that her anger and resentment at losing her children and being banished caused her to turn into a succubus or is accompanied by one. Hefner says Lilith launched an attack and terrorizes pregnant women and infants, mainly baby boys.
She goes by many other different names like Lama, a witch who steals children as well as Meyallaleth who was the first night demon. She is also referred to as the howling one. Many have said that Isaiah 34:!4 refers to Lilith when it talks of a screeching owl: "The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest." Some scholars even speculate that Lilith was the serpent that tempted Eve instead of Satan. She is also known as the Queen of the demons because it is thought that she is Satan's favorite wife and of course bore him many demons. Lilith is often viewed with long flowing hair with wings and taloned feet.
Not only is it thought that Lilith was wife to Adam and Satan, but also another demon named Samael, who is one of the demonic angels of death. The myth says that she was the first of his four wives. The two have been referred to as "Leviathan the Slant Serpent and Leviathan the Torturous Serpent." In the Talmudic myth it is said that God castrated Samael in order to keep the two from mating and bearing more demonic children. So Lilith left Samael to mate with men who have night "emissions" or in other words "wet dreams." It is said that when men have these dreams it is Lilith that causes them. It is also said that Samael is the son of Adam and Lilith from one of the times when she seduces him at night after leaving Eden.
In another article by an unknown author on rahoorkhuit.net says that Lilith would attack children in their sleep. She would make the laugh by tickling their feet until they giggled, then she would strangle them. Mothers would tap the baby's nose and cry out "Away Lilith, you have no place here" or place an amulet around the child's neck to keep her at bay. It is said she had power over children in their first week after birth, the young girls a little longer than the boys.
All of the theories of Lilith all have the same element: Lilith becomes a seductress and attacks children since she loses all of hers. We can never know which theory is correct or which is wrong. When there are so many different versions of the same thing, makes it hard to take something as fact, so we shouldn't assume that Adam had a first wife and look further into scripture. Chapter two of Genesis goes in greater detail of how male and female humans were created; not describing a second creation of woman.
