Lilith

In praise of darkness, defiance and uncompromising desire

Of all of her aspects (the most ignominious being some kind of sexy vampire-demon pandering to male desire), to me Lilith is the primordial mother diabolised; the product of mythic narratives designed to subordinate female power, desire and authority. She is the rejection of orthodoxy, order and oppression; the transgressor whose dominion must by its na…