Ugh this is what happens when I make a topic too close to going to sleep.
I do not worship anybody or anything, personally I find the term "worship" inconceivable and an abomination, so I'm not 100% sure what you mean by worship in your question. I've heard Lilith derives from Lalitha whom is the divine mother in Hinduism.
1) Wut? What do you mean you don't know wors
2) Pretty sure Lilith has no etymology with Sanskrit. I did a quick search of the etymology and there isn't any connection and Lalitha is more just of a common name, sometimes used to refer to Pravati .
I find it
very hard to imagine Pravati as anything at all like Lilith. Lilith would actually be closest to various tantric Dakinis if anything. Someone once pointed out to me actually that if the west didn't have the stigmas it did the Succubi mythos might of developed very similarly to the Dakini's mythology
He had actually made a point that Succubi are possibly a "low level" type of being of the same type, but I think he described them as more Asura. Who the heck knows though? It's hard to really put deities into other cultural contexts. Not impossible, but hard to do so authentically.
IMO "Satan" = Saturnus, the Roman
I've seen this claim pop up every now and then but I've never once seen any credible historical evidence for it. It seems to come from an assumption based on how similar the words look despite having no etymological connection.
If you´re having thoughts whether to worship/focus on one the other, my (wild) guess would be that maybe you should focus more on your female part in general? Maybe specifically your spiritual intuition and your dreams and mythical experiences? What are they telling?
But you already knew this, didn´t you?
It's not an either or thing for me. Focusing on the female is very much a Trika kind of thing but this is different. Details are rather personal.
I haven't worshiped her so far, never felt much of an inclination to it or connection to her.
What would you consider scriptural authority? The original Hebrew myths? Later but still historical interpretations (e.g. in late-medieval grimoires)? Or also what contemporary occultists say about her?
I'm asking because much of what I read about her was not from any scientific source, but just from the weblogs and books of occultists. Those often had scientific sources themselves, but their texts are often written in a way that doesn't distinguish between the original myths and their own UPGs.
One example (which at least states the sources, though) would be these articles here:
Lilith (+ Arachnid Lilith and Taninsam)
Lilith’s Esoteric Saturnian Aspect
The former two; the Hebrew myths and grimoires. A lot of what I read when I did worship her was what contemporary occultists said, which is why I said I didn't know much about the actual mythology. And ya, as you said, it's much easier to find what contemporary occultists think over secondary sources discussing the actual mythos.
I kind of gave up trying to find credible sources after a certain point and just went with my own experiences. That's probably why she became less important over time until I kind of just stopped having anything to do with her. It actually lasted maybe a year or so before I mostly forgot about her despite working with Succubi for years after that, but that's rare these days.
It's clear that at the time I just wasn't in a place to properly work with Lilith directly as even then I mostly did so indirectly as if knowing deep down that was so, and that I probably have matured spiritually enough now to. If not something's messin' with me but I seriously doubt something is.
Hopefully someone has written something objective and serious in the last 6 or so years or some information on good, older sources has come online now. I just figured it was easier to just ask and see if anyone already knew of some good credible sources than go digging for days.
I'll take a look at those sources a bit later.
You are clearly someone who takes her theology seriously.
Maybe I didn't 7 years ago but I clearly do now by making this topic.
Actually my exchange with Liu just above shows that I'm not the only one to notice the lack of credible sources. So in defense of my past self I didn't exactly have access to good sources to start with.
Anyways why don't you actually next time not be a jerk when people actually want to learn? We gotta start somewhere.
