Lilith
Lilith, Serie: religious mythology,
Hajewski Grace, countess, Deutschland 2011
Oil, 20x20cm, n°30511
The first time that we see Lilith used as a literary character, rather than a figure of religious mythology used within text, is in Goethe's Faust. The mention here is intensely breif, but it is still noteworthy.
Faust: Who's that there?
Mephisto: Take a good look.
Lilith.
Faust: Lilith? Who is that?
Mephisto: Adam's wife, his
first.
Beware of her.
Her beauty's one boast is her dangerous hair.
Then Lilith winds it tight around young men
She doesn't soon let go of them again.
(4206–4211)
Faust: A lovely dream I dreamt one day
I saw a green-leaved apple tree,
Two apples swayed upon a stem,
So tempting! I climbed up for them.
The Pretty Witch: Ever since the
days of Eden
Apples have been man's desire.
How overjoyed I am to think, sir,
Apples grow, too, in my garden
(4216 – 4223)
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