[EVA] Lilith origins

[Nanashi]

>>According to a midrash, Lilith was made from earth, but was created from
the filth of the earth, and Adam was made from clean dust. (Adamah=red
earth)<<

From:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/humm/Topics/Lilith/origin.html

In the beginning the Holy One, blessed be He, created Eve, and she was not
flesh but the scum of the earth and its impure sediments, and she was a
harmful spirit [i.e., Lilith]. And the Holy One, blessed be He, took her
away from Adam and gave him another in her stead. (Patai81:453)

When the letters of the name of Adam, descended below, together in their
completeness, the male and the female were found together, and the female
was attached to his side, until God cast a deep slumber upon him and he fell
asleep. And he lay in the place of the Temple below. And the Holy One,
blessed be He, sawed her off him, and adorned her as they adorn a bride, and
brought her to him.... In an ancient book I found that this [refers to] the
primeval Lilith who was with him and conceived from him, but was not a
helpmeet for him.... (Patai81:454)

Come and see: There is a female, a spirit of all spirits, and her name is
Lilith, and she was at first with Adam. And in the hour when Adam was
created and his body became completed, a thousand spirits from the left
[evil] side clung to that body until the Holy One, blessed be He, shouted at
them and drove them away. And Adam was lying, a body without a spirit, and
his appearance was green, and all those spirits surrounded him.    In that
hour a cloud descended an pushed away all those spirits.    And when Adam
stood up, his female was attached to his side. And that holy spirit which
was in him spread out to this side and that side, and grew here and there,
and thus became complete. Thereafter the Holy One, blessed be He, sawed Adam
into two, and made the female. And He brought her to Adam in her perfection
like a bride to the canopy.    When Lilith saw this, she fled. And she is in
the cities of the sea, and she is still trying to harm the sons of the
world. (Patai81:455)

Lilith is called the Northerner, because Out of the north the evil breaks
forth (Jer. 1:14). Both Samael, king of the demons, and Lilith were born in
a spiritual birth androgynously. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is
an epithet for both Samael and Grandmother Lilith (e.g. the Northerner). As
a result of Adam's sin, both of them came and confused the whole world, both
the Upper one and the Nether one. (based on the ed. of G. Scholem, quoted in
Patai81:453)

Samael resembles the form of Adam, and Lilith the form of Eve. Both were
born in an androgynous form, corresponding to the form of Adam and Eve:
below and above, two twin forms. And Samael and Grandmother Eve [i.e.,
Lilith], who is the Northerner, are emanations from beneath the Throne of
Glory. And the sin [of Adam] caused this evil. (Patai81:453)

After the primeval light was hidden, a husk was created for the brain, and
that husk spread out and brought forth another husk which was Lilith. And
when she emerged, she went up and went down towards the little faces, and
wanted to attach herself to them and be shaped after them, and did not want
to depart from them. But the Holy One, blessed be He, removed her from there
and placed her down below.    When He created Adam, in order to perfect this
world, as soon as Lilith saw Eve affixed to the side of Adam, and saw in
them the beauty of the Above, and saw their perfect image, she flew off from
there and wanted, as before to attach herself to the little faces. But the
guardians of the gates of Above did not Let her. The Holy One, blessed be
He, rebuked her, and cast her into the depths of the sea, and she remained
dwelling there until Adam and his wife sinned. Then the Holy One, blessed be
He, brought her up from the depths of the sea and gave her power over all
those children, the little faces of the sons of man, who are liable to
punishment because of the sins of their fathers. And she went and roamed the
world.    She approached the gates of Paradise on earth, and saw the
Cherubim guarding the gates of Paradise, and sat down facing the Flaming
Sword, for she originated from that flame. When that flame revolved, she
fled. And she roams in the world, and finds children liable to punishment,
and caresses them, and kills them. And all this is because of the
diminishing of the moon which reduced its light....    When Cain was born,
she could not attach herself to him. But later she approached him and bore
spirits and winged demons. For 130 years Adam had intercourse with female
spirits, until Naamah came. Because of her beauty the sons of God went
astray after her, 'Ussa and 'Azael, and she bore from them, and from her
spread evil. spirits and demons in the world.... (Patai81:454f)    And she
goes and roams the world at night, and makes sport with men and causes them
to emit seed. And wherever men are found sleeping alone in a house, they
[these spirits] descend upon them and get hold of them and adhere to them
and take desire from them and bear from them. And they also afflict them
with disease, and the men do not know it. And all this is because of the
diminishing of the moon. (Patai81:461)

And the Serpent, the Woman of Harlotry, incited and seduced Eve through the
husks of Light which in itself is holiness. And the Serpent seduced Holy
Eve, and enough said for him who understands. An all this ruination came
about because Adam the first man coupled with Eve while she was in her
menstrual impurity -- this is the filth and the impure seed of the Serpent
who mounted Eve before Adam mounted her. Behold, here it is before you:
because of the sins of Adam the first man all the things mentioned came into
being. For Evil Lilith, when she saw the greatness of his corruption, became
strong in her husks, and came to Adam against his will, and became hot from
him and bore him many demons and spirits and Lilin. (Patai81:455f)

Extra:

Lilin: Patai identifies these as the male equivalents of the liliths -- e.g.
incubus. In contrast, the Epstein translates "female demons." [AH]