লিলিথ বেন হ্যানসেনের আঁকা লিলিথের ছবি কে লিলিথ? লিলিথ ছিলেন আদমের প্রথম স্ত্রী। চমকে গেলেন তো? হ্যাঁ। ইহুদি উপকথা অনুযায়ী- ঈভকে সৃষ্টির আগে ঈশ্বর লিলিথকে সৃষ্টি করেছিলেন। কিন্তু লিলিথের কাছে আদম শান্তি পায়নি। দুজনের খালি ঝগড়া হত। তারপর লিলিথ আদমকে ছেড়ে চলে যায়। তারপর লিলিথের কি হয়েছিল? তার নামে নানা দুর্নাম রটল। লোকে তাকে ডাকিনীযোগীনী বলল। যাই হোক। ইহুদি উপকথার দিকে ফিরে তাকাই - God then formed Lilith, the first woman, just as He had formed Adam, except that He used filth and sediment instead of pure dust. From Adam's union with this demoness, and with another like her named Naamah, Tubal Cain's sister, sprang Asmodeus and innumerable demons that still plague mankind. Many generations later, Lilith and Naamah came to Solomon's judgement seat, disguised as harlots of Jerusalem'. Adam and Lilith never found peace together; for when he wished to lie with her, she took offence at the recumbent posture he demanded. 'Why must I lie beneath you?' she asked. 'I also was made from dust, and am therefore your equal.' Because Adam tried to compel her obedience by force, Lilith, in a rage, uttered the magic name of God, rose into the air and left him. Adam complained to God: 'I have been deserted by my helpmeet' God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. They found her beside the Red Sea, a region abounding in lascivious demons, to whom she bore lilim at the rate of more than one hundred a day. 'Return to Adam without delay,' the angels said, `or we will drown you!' Lilith asked: `How can I return to Adam and live like an honest housewife, after my stay beside the Red Sea?? 'It will be death to refuse!' they answered. `How can I die,' Lilith asked again, `when God has ordered me to take charge of all newborn children: boys up to the eighth day of life, that of circumcision; girls up to the twentieth day. None the less, if ever I see your three names or likenesses displayed in an amulet above a newborn child, I promise to spare it.' To this they agreed; but God punished Lilith by making one hundred of her demon children perish daily; and if she could not destroy a human infant, because of the angelic amulet, she would spitefully turn against her own. বিদ্রোহী লিলিথ পরবর্তীকালে নারীবাদীদের প্রতীক হয়ে উঠেছে । স্মরণ করুন-Adam and Lilith never found peace together; for when he wished to lie with her, she took offence at the recumbent posture he demanded. 'Why must I lie beneath you?' she asked. 'I also was made from dust, and am therefore your equal.' Because Adam tried to compel her obedience by force, Lilith, in a rage, uttered the magic name of God, rose into the air and left him. "লিলিথ" নামে ইহুদি নারীদের রয়েছে নারীবাদী পত্রিকা। পত্রিকাটি দেখার জন্য এখানে ক্লিক করুন। http://www.lilith.org/ লিলিথ সম্বন্ধে আরও জানতে চাইলে- http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Topics/Lilith/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith সর্বশেষ এডিট : ২৭ শে সেপ্টেম্বর, ২০০৯ সকাল ৯:০৯