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I'm curious - does the story of Lilith (Adam's supposed first wife) relate to the Egyptians??
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No that's CHRISTANITY not EGYPTIAN.
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DrDemon you're so needlessly rude.
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I was trying to clarify... Not trying to be rude.
Trust me I not even close to how mean I can be.
But again I was trying to clarify...not trying to be rude.
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Caps are a bit rude. And also, a lot of Christianity does take from older religions so it was a legit question.
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Lilith has NOTHING to do with Christianity. Lilith is never mentioned in the Bible.
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Lilith is a part of Jewish folklre and in certain rabbinical treatises was the first wife of Adam but refused to submit to him (as she was not created from his rib, but as an equal i.e. directly from God). She later becomes the mother of demons and a folk spirit associated with barreness and miscarriages.

So not Christian, but certainly along those lines, she actually has earlier origins as a wind demon if my memory serves correctly, my knowledge of her is only in ther role as the qliphoth of Malkuth in the qabalstic tradition.
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thanks!
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"There were Gods for every known event, and every known animal,bird,reptile. Gods of the Nile,God of the crocodile,Hippo,Horses. In every Dynasty right up until the 18th,when Ahkenaten condemned the whole lot of them in favour of one God,the Sun. But even he was "deposed", and all the old Gods came back again"

Several of the statements above are incorrect.

For instance, there are no spider gods, though spiders are well known in ancient and modern Egypt. For that matter, until recently there were no spider glyphs. Horses are not sacred animals in the same sense that hippos, crocodiles, cobras, etc, are; they are mainly used in warfare and are not given as the sacred animal of any particular Netjeru. The "Water Horse" epithet for hippo Netjeru (specifically Taweret) is due to a poor translation from the LAGG or Lexikon der gyptischen Gtter und Gtterbezeichnungen .

Amenhotep IV or Akhenaten did not introduce one Netjer (singular of Netjeru) nor did he condemn all others; he actually put forth the Aten as the supreme expression of the Divine. The Aten is "Ra-Herakhety in His Name of Shu in His Form of the Aten"; the Aten being the personification of the physical sun as Iah is the personification of the physical moon. During his reign, both he and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti were compared to the oldest of the Netjeru (in some myths) Shu and Tefnut respectively. By placing himself as the "First/Eldest Son" of the Aten and Nefertiti as the original "Eye of Ra" and Ma'at herself (which is what Tefnut is), he essentially stripped the Ra and Amun priesthoods of their power. What purpose is a priestly practice that serves Netjeru that are far removed from humanity, when there are two living Netjeru in front of you? It is because of this that many modern Egyptologists feel that Akhenaten was only a hereatic in that he removed the power of the priesthood and outlawed the old forms of the Divine.

There also aren't really hundreds of them; most of the Netjeru are local forms of more national Netjeru. This is why there are so many forms of the two Heru's (Heru-wer and Heru-sa-Aset) and how forms like Hatmehit come from Aset (Isis).

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Lilith is still not Kemetic in origin. Please take any further conversation about her elsewhere.

However, Christian hell is based off what the Gnostic Christians of Egypt knew of their ancestors' religion; the Duat is much scarier than the unmodified Christian concept, or can be if traversed improperly.

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I worship the God Anubis He is my main protector my question is what kind of offerings do you give to Him?
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