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How amelinda retroactively changed early Judaic lore

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(idea) by amelinda (4.2 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Fri Apr 14 2000 at 21:15:52

Yes, It's all my fault. I did it. I went back and rewrote early Judaic lore.

Well, not really.

When I started using Lillith as my name (see: amelinda), I went all out with the whole theme, and I wrote several pseudo-titles for the name. Several of them came about because of being in various usenet newsgroups, others from hanging out with friends, and so on. I put them up on my web page for laughs.

Well, one day this New Age idiot came wandering through the World Wide Internet and found my page with my personal titles. And she decided that these were real titles that really did belong to the original Lillith.

To be sure, some of them were based on actual tales of Lillith, such as Mother of Demons (after Lillith left the Garden of Eden, she reportedly lived by the Red Sea and spawned countless demons, called the lilim). But many of these were pretty much totally fabricated, such as "Evil Which Types In The Night."

This would be the end of the story, but this woman was an author. And she was deep into writing a book called "Angels and Archetypes." In this book (which I own a copy of now, bought on sale, just to point out this woman's folly), the chapter on Lilith describes her using the personal titles that I made up.

The footnote for them gives the source as the email address of some poor guy at UPenn, who does maintain a website about the mythical Lilith, but doesn't even talk about modern Lilith imdemonators, much less have any links to my site! When I finally got to email him and ask him about it, he said that he'd never heard of it and had no idea how it happened.

And that's how I retroactively changed early Judaic lore.


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Six Myths of Our Time Creating a credible Urban Legend pool myths Lillith
Sexual myths about women Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga lilim Lilith
The Mythical Man-Month Judaic Bad Religion fictitious myths
Angels find pleasure in work when God is on vacation urban myth web page Mother of Demons
usenet November 7, 2004 Thoughts on how religious proscriptions came to be Hegemony
World Wide Internet Legends of the Fall Center for Southern Folklore urban legend
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