Other authors say that she could have been a fertility goddess (this connects her again with Ishtar, Astarte and Asherah), and some Neopagans consider Belili a mother goddess.Ī related concept is the Lamia from old English legends. Some authors, however, relate her with Lilith, who is commonly associated with the demon Asmodai and considered a female demon with the function of acting as a succubus. As the wife of Bel she can be associated with Ishtar for Assyrians and Babylonians, with Astarte for Semites, and with Asherah for Philistines in this sense Belili can also be associated with sacred prostitution and human sacrifice (of children, by fire). The Canaanites called her Baalat or Baalit, the wife and female counterpart of Baal. She was later included in the Babylonian pantheon with the name of Belili or Belit-ili (also spelled Belet-ili), acquiring in some time a much higher status as the wife of Bel (the Assyrian and Babylonian equivalent to Baal).
'Belili' was first a Sumerian minor goddess called Gesht-inanna, sister of Dumuzi, and wife of Nin-gishzida (the door keeper of An). Went the man who engendered them was about to die, they surrounded his bed waiting for the moment during which they could take their father's soul, impeding his travel to the Underworld, and making of him an errant spirit, feared by all living people. They were engendered during a men sleep with Lilitu or one of her demon servants. In Akkadian mythology they were a race of monstrous and faceless demons that destroyed all that they could capture. The ghostly version of the succubus is the soul of a young woman who died in or near a lake (many of these rusalki were murdered by their lovers), and came to haunt that lake this undead rusalka is not particularly malevolent, and will be allowed to die in peace if her death is avenged.Īllu are the offspring of Succubi. She corresponds to the Scandinavian and German Nixie. Men who were seduced by her died in her arms, and in some version her laugh can also cause death. In Slavic mythology 'Rusalka' was a female ghost, water nymph or succubus-like demon who lived in a lake. People feel pressure on their chest, and some people report that they observed Mara laying on their chest, sometimes choking their necks, and mostly inducing sleep paralysis. 'Mara' is the name of a fabulous ogress who hags people when sleeping.
Men and also mothers feared the attack of the lilin, because they were also said to kidnap children, like Lilith. They are demons, with their function being that of a succubus. Jewish mothers believed Lilith would come to take their children away and eat them.Īccording to Jewish folklore, the 'lilin' are the daughters of Lilith and Adam, engendered while she was his wife. A demon-woman who hunts men, seduces them and drains their life with a kiss. In both Islamic and Jewish myths however, she is a succubus.
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