The Book of Lilith tells the story of Lilith, who was really the first woman created by God, and who just happened to have been created before Adam. She is set the task of giving a soul to all the things in the world by loving them, beginning with the still inanimate Adam. After Adam's awakening, he too is given a task: o create rules and law out of chaos by defining "Sin".
Unfortunately, Adam turns out to be jealous of Lilith's primacy, insecure, rude, and sometimes even violent. Nor does Lilith care for it when Adam defines it as a Sin for them to have sex in any position but Adam on top, "to be closer to God". When she attempts to put a moratorium on sex in general until Adam reconsiders, Adam rapes and beats her and burns down her house-tree.
Lilith flees with her children with the help of her eldest son, Cain, and prays to Inanna for justice. Inanna responds by calling down a small asteroid that lands in the Red Sea, flooding the entire Tigris-Euphrates watercourse and drowning Eden (and of course, creating the legend of the flood in the process). Lilith and her children barely survive and stumble off to the west to discover the still-soulless towns of early Phoenicia.
This begins Lilith's adventures as she embarks on a Zen journey across the world giving things souls, shopping with Inanna in early bazaars, healing the sick, acting as judge, jury, and executioner to the wicked, and ultimately giving birth to a god at the end of her Yuga.
The Book of Lilith is alternately funny, serious, surreal, and amazing. It can be purchased via any of the following links:
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