The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-19
ADAMS FIRST WIFE.
The Legends Concerning LiIfaa n
Gathered From TaImudIc and Mo-
hnmmedan Source
From the New York Pest.
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f Not soon again she frets him from her
1esses.
/ So responded MephistopheIes TO Faust.
/ as the pair stood together on the Broken
and beheld strangely fascinating fe-
male form amid the eerie throng that
swept by at their feet. Unfortunately
me doctor Was entirely ignorant Of the
Lhufnate relations that once existed he
T tween Lluth and the Prince Of Evil. else
ne would have eagerly sought for m IRE
I vASsnueu information concerning this i'm
T poi tant but shadowy parsonage in bibli-
{ cal history. and the world might have
I oeen deal the wiser
as ~ Is the great majority OF well in
/ LoIineu christians probably know little
/ OF hothlng about Adams first wife. al
tuOGeh the book Of Genesis itself is said
70 throw out vague hint or two on the
SUBJECT, and tantalizing illusions occur
mere and there in profane literature. as
I I IN me instance from Goethe's master
| With the modest intent. then NJ tbrou-
! ing a little more light on the golden
naiTed, beautiful, but alas somewhat
/ faulty spouse Of Adam, the following
carefully CLEANED from the most approved
1SI,mudle and Mohammedan writer's
10 Degln with, accepted Mussulman ira
uitlOnS furnish some interesting and pre-
/ else details concerning the birth of Adam
/ winch may not be widely known 1t seems
I Inat me common ancestor of our kind was
- o4A Il fl0aN afternoon. fha
/ Assr,hour, or about o'clock. God having
/ decided TO form man in his own image. he
ogrIqieFed the four archangels-Gabriel
| Michael, lsrafiel and Asrael-to hiring
1 earth for the purpose from the four ouar7
/ ters OF the globe. Thus * came to mass
4 mar Aoams head and breast We're made
4 Oi cray from Mecca and Medina-the
pldceS Which eventually were 70 become
/ the shrines of the Holy Kaaba and the
/ lomp or Mohammed. The beauty of the
4 completed man must have been beyond
of h.,
! hooked TO the gates of Paradise are de-
/ cared 10 have been fairly dazzled at the
/ SiSht Eblis, the evil one, however. was
/ hHeu with envy on behOlding the charms
I OF the yet inanimate form. and ieer.inglv
remarked TO the heavenly throng: How
/ can you admire a creature made of earth ?
/ From such material nothing but fragil-
4 itY and feebleness can come Neverthe-
less, most of the angels praised God for
what he had done
The body of Adam was so great that il
| ne stood mp his head would reach into
the seventh heaven. But he was not as
vet endowed with a living soul The soul
had been made a thousand wears before
! ana had been stepped an that while in the
sea or light which flowed from Allah
God now ordered the soul to enter the
pouy. IT showed some indlSposition 10
obey, thereupon God exclaimed: Quicken
Adam against your Will. and, as a penal
~ for your disobedience, you shall leave
the body sOrely against your will" Then
God blew the spirit against Adam with
such force that II entered his nose and ran
! reached his eyes Adam opened them and
heheld the throne of the Most High. At
terWdrd the soul penetrated all the mem
bers, reaching last of all the feet Of Adam
| which receiving strength, he sprang up
and stood upon the earth
God then called all created animals be
| lore Adam and told him their names and
their natures. Then he called up all the
| angels, and babe them bow before Adam
the man whom he had made. Only Eblis
refused, in tho pride Of his heart saving:
] / " n ~ M 10 of fra ,at,
before him who is made of earth?' There
fore, he was cast out Of the heavenly pre-
| cincts.
But Adam stepped forth with glowing
mien and preached to the angels. who stood
/ before him In 1900 ranks a sermon on
! the power. majesty and goodness of God
| and he showed such transcendent knowl-
| edge-for he could name each beast in sew
/ enty languages-that his audience was
/ overwhelmed with establishment and adj
miratton.
! In the first chapter of the Book of Cen
esis, at the twentY-seVenth verse, some
time before the creation of Eve is specific
ally mentioned, we read: so God created
man in His own image in the image Of
Goa created He him; male and female
created He them"
Now the Talmudists, from whom the
Arabs have borrowed many of their sacred
1 legends, distinctly affirm that Lilith Is the
female alluded to. According 10 some au-
thorities, she was created Joined to Adam
back. Others believe that the two were
separate beings from the beginning. How
ever that may be, there Is no manner Of
doubt but that they soon fell to quarrellng,
and even tore each other continually. Lii
it'll. furthermore, developed an unsecmlv
prediction for witchcraft and assiduOus-
~ courted the society of devils. to such an
extent in fact, that Adam became jusufia-
bly, annoyed and prayed that his compan-
ION might be left to her own unhallowed
devices.
Cod was sorely vexed at the result OF
his experiment and promptly expelled the
woman from paradise. But something
had TO be done TO compensate Adam Tor
his domestic misfortune. In the eigh-
tcenth verse of the second chapter of
Gensis occur these words: And The Lord
God said, 1t it not good that man should
be alone. l viii make hin. an hepmeet
for him.
Thus it came to pass, so say the rabbin-
zeal writer's, that Eve was created to ill
the trying position from which the erring
Lilth had been deposed. A little later
on in the same chapter (tWenty-thtrd
verse; Adam saws: This is now bone Of
my bone and flesh of my flesh" meaning
thereby, we may infer, that God had now
given him a suitable companion ana wife,
since she was taken from his own body.
A sequel to the Lilith legend informs US
that the first and fairest of Viragos was
nothing lOath to shake OF the dust Of
paradise from her feet, for the reason
that by so doing her ambition of a union
with the EVIL one himself might be speed
lily realized We are told, too, that satan
saw fit TO receive her advances in a mar
ner not unkindly, although he had three
wives already
However this may be, Lilith gained her
suit and was duly recognized at satan's
fourth wife, the others being Machalatn,
Igereth and Mama, the daughter of
Lamech and sister of Tubal-Cain. Each
became the mother Of numerous host of
demons, and each ruled with her respec-
tive progeny over a season of the year
At the change of seasons there was an
immense gathering OF demons about their
mothers, Lilith alone being followed by
no less than AIS legions.
According TO Abraham Echellensis
these children were called Jins, and were
endowed with six qualities. three of which
they shared with men and three with dew
lis. Like men, they did generate in their
own likeness, eat food and die. Like dew
lis they were winged and could where
they listed with great velocity They
might also assume a mantle of invisible
ity, and could pass through solid sub
stances without undergoing personal in
jury.
This race of Jins was supposed to be
less ntagonistic to men than their fair
mother. In fact, the popular belief in In
dia was that these spirits occasionally as
sumed human form and actually played
games with the native children.
I.ilith however whose name may be
literally translated screech-owl or noctur-
nal specter, was known to be the in
plaeable enemy of all infants. over whom
She exercised the power of life and death
for eight days after birth for boys and