ELSAIED ABDELGHANI / Mara Voss
Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Who Is Lilith? The First Eve, Mother of Demons, and the Dark FeminineBefore Eve, there was another woman.She was formed from the same dust as Adam - not from his rib, not beneath him. When he demanded her submission, she spoke a forbidden name, took to the sky, and vanished into the wilderness rather than kneel. For four thousand years, her name has survived what almost no other ancient figure has: erasure, demonization, silence, and reinvention - again and again and again.Who Is Lilith? traces her entire, tangled journey - from the storm-demons of ancient Sumer and the blood-drinking predator of the Epic of Gilgamesh, through the scandalous medieval text that gave her a voice for the first time, into the heart of Kabbalistic myth, where she rules as queen of demons beside Samael. From there, she steps into Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Gothic novels, feminist theology, a 1990s music festival that reshaped the industry, and finally into the strange, contested territory of modern astrology and TikTok’s 'dark feminine energy.'This is not a book that settles on one Lilith and calls it truth. It’s a book that asks a harder, more honest question: why does this particular figure - banished, rewritten, worshipped, sold, and endlessly reinterpreted - refuse to disappear? And what does each version of her reveal about the people who needed to invent her?Drawing on comparative mythology, Jungian psychology, feminist film theory, and a critical look at the sources themselves - including a startling academic debate over whether Lilith’s most famous story was ever meant to be taken seriously at all - Who Is Lilith? is part myth, part history, part reckoning with how legends are truly made.
