She or beings similar to her are found in myths from Iranian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Canaanite, Persian, Arabic, Teutonic, Mexican, Greek, English, Asian, and Native American legends. She is the dark aspect of the Mother Goddess. The numerical value of Lilith’s name equals the Hebrew word for screech, and thus Lilith is often personified by the screech owl. I let the leather-bound book fall closed on my lap. I knew the words almost by heart, anyway. I’d probably read this page from my grandfather’s Demons and Demonology a hundred times. King Solomon succeeded in binding Lilith in chains and cast her into a deep pit, from whence she rules and copulates with demons and men alike, sending her demon children into the world. And on and on. The End Times was the year when the veil was weakened by enough ingresses that everyone, even all the world’s governments, had to suddenly face the reality of demons. But of course, they’ve existed in this world for much longer than that.
