<span data-t="0.0">Pro</span> <span data-t="0.3">Football</span> <span data-t="0.7">is</span> <span data-t="0.8">back.</span> <span data-t="1.0">And</span> <span data-t="1.2">so</span> <span data-t="1.4">are</span> <span data-t="1.6">the</span> <span data-t="1.7">predictions.</span> <span data-t="2.2">Trade</span> <span data-t="2.5">yours</span> <span data-t="2.6">on</span> <span data-t="2.8">CalCheat,</span> <span data-t="3.6">America's</span> <span data-t="3.9">number</span> <span data-t="4.1">one</span> <span data-t="4.3">prediction</span> <span data-t="4.6">market</span> <span data-t="4.
9">platform.</span> <span data-t="5.3">Indy</span> <span data-t="5.7">takes</span> <span data-t="5.8">on</span> <span data-t="6.0">Kansas</span> <span data-t="6.4">City</span> <span data-t="6.6">with</span> <span data-t="6.8">Indy</span> <span data-t="7.1">currently</span> <span data-t="7.4">trading</span> <span data-t="7.7">at</span> <span data-t="7.8">28%</span> <span data-t="8.4">to</span> <span data-t="8.5">win.</span> <span data-t="8.8">A</span> <span data-t="9.0">$100</span> <span data-t="9.5">trade</span> <span data-t="9.8">pays</span> <span data-t="10.1">out</span> <span data-t="10.
2">$336</span> <span data-t="11.3">if</span> <span data-t="11.4">they</span> <span data-t="11.5">win.</span> <span data-t="12.0">Download</span> <span data-t="12.5">CalCheat.</span> <span data-t="13.2">Use</span> <span data-t="13.4">code</span> <span data-t="13.6">AUDIO</span> <span data-t="14.1">25</span> <span data-t="14.6">to</span> <span data-t="14.6">get</span> <span data-t="14.9">$55</span> <span data-t="15.7">when</span> <span data-t="15.8">you</span> <span data-t="16.0">trade</span> <span data-t="16.3">$25.</span> <span data-t="17.4">K-A-L-S-H-I.</span> <span data-t="19.1">CalCheat.
</span> <span data-t="19.9">Trade</span> <span data-t="20.2">what's</span> <span data-t="20.5">next.</span> <span data-t="20.8">$18</span> <span data-t="21.2">plus</span> <span data-t="21.5">only.</span> <span data-t="21.8">Restrictions</span> <span data-t="22.2">and</span> <span data-t="22.3">eligibility</span> <span data-t="23.0">requirements</span> <span data-t="23.4">apply.</span> <span data-t="23.8">Event</span> <span data-t="24.2">contract</span> <span data-t="24.6">trading</span> <span data-t="24.9">involves</span> <span data-t="25.2">risk</span> <span data-t="25.
5">and</span> <span data-t="25.6">may</span> <span data-t="25.8">not</span> <span data-t="25.9">be</span> <span data-t="26.0">suitable</span> <span data-t="26.3">for</span> <span data-t="26.4">all</span> <span data-t="26.6">investors.</span> <span data-t="27.0">Calci</span> <span data-t="27.6">products</span> <span data-t="27.8">are</span> <span data-t="27.9">not</span> <span data-t="28.0">available</span> <span data-t="28.3">in</span> <span data-t="28.4">all</span> <span data-t="28.6">jurisdictions.</span> <span data-t="29.2">Prices,</span> <span data-t="29.7">values,</span> <span data-t="30.
0">and</span> <span data-t="30.1">available</span> <span data-t="30.5">markets</span> <span data-t="30.8">may</span> <span data-t="30.9">differ</span> <span data-t="31.1">from</span> <span data-t="31.3">those</span> <span data-t="31.4">mentioned.</span> <span data-t="31.8">For</span> <span data-t="32.0">more</span> <span data-t="32.2">information,</span> <span data-t="32.4">see</span> <span data-t="32.6">CalChi.com</span> <span data-t="33.6">slash</span> <span data-t="33.9">regulatory.</span>
<span data-t="113.4">There's</span> <span data-t="113.7">nothing</span> <span data-t="114.0">like</span> <span data-t="114.2">my</span> <span data-t="114.4">American</span> <span data-t="114.8">Express</span> <span data-t="115.1">Platinum</span> <span data-t="115.8">card.</span> <span data-t="116.2">I</span> <span data-t="116.3">love</span> <span data-t="116.5">that</span> <span data-t="116.6">I</span> <span data-t="116.7">can</span> <span data-t="116.9">earn</span> <span data-t="117.1">hotel</span> <span data-t="117.4">credits</span> <span data-t="117.8">when</span> <span data-t="117.
9">I</span> <span data-t="118.0">travel.</span> <span data-t="118.4">I</span> <span data-t="118.5">can</span> <span data-t="118.6">also</span> <span data-t="118.8">earn</span> <span data-t="119.0">RETI</span> <span data-t="119.7">credits,</span> <span data-t="120.1">so</span> <span data-t="120.2">you</span> <span data-t="120.4">know</span> <span data-t="120.6">I'm</span> <span data-t="120.7">hitting</span> <span data-t="121.0">the</span> <span data-t="121.1">restaurants</span> <span data-t="121.6">everyone's</span> <span data-t="122.0">talking</span> <span data-t="122.3">about.
</span> <span data-t="122.7">Plus,</span> <span data-t="123.1">with</span> <span data-t="123.3">the</span> <span data-t="123.4">digital</span> <span data-t="123.8">entertainment</span> <span data-t="124.3">credit,</span> <span data-t="124.7">I'm</span> <span data-t="125.0">even</span> <span data-t="125.2">more</span> <span data-t="125.4">excited</span> <span data-t="125.8">to</span> <span data-t="126.0">catch</span> <span data-t="126.2">my</span> <span data-t="126.4">favorite</span> <span data-t="126.9">shows.</span> <span data-t="127.5">All</span> <span data-t="127.
8">in</span> <span data-t="128.1">all,</span> <span data-t="128.4">I</span> <span data-t="128.6">can</span> <span data-t="128.7">access</span> <span data-t="129.1">over</span> <span data-t="129.4">$3,500</span> <span data-t="130.5">in</span> <span data-t="130.6">annual</span> <span data-t="131.0">value</span> <span data-t="131.4">with</span> <span data-t="131.6">benefits</span> <span data-t="132.0">and</span> <span data-t="132.2">eligible</span> <span data-t="132.6">purchases</span> <span data-t="133.2">across</span> <span data-t="133.6">travel,</span> <span data-t="134.
1">entertainment,</span> <span data-t="134.8">and</span> <span data-t="135.0">more.</span> <span data-t="135.5">Learn</span> <span data-t="135.8">more</span> <span data-t="136.0">at</span> <span data-t="136.2">AmericaneExpress.com</span> <span data-t="137.4">slash</span> <span data-t="137.8">explore</span> <span data-t="138.2">dash</span> <span data-t="138.5">platinum.</span> <span data-t="139.1">Enrollment</span> <span data-t="139.6">requirements,</span> <span data-t="140.1">monthly,</span> <span data-t="140.4">and</span> <span data-t="140.5">other</span> <span data-t="140.
6">limits</span> <span data-t="141.0">in</span> <span data-t="141.2">terms</span> <span data-t="141.6">apply.</span>
<span data-t="171.4">If</span> <span data-t="171.8">so,</span> <span data-t="172.6">then</span> <span data-t="172.9">sit</span> <span data-t="173.2">back,</span> <span data-t="173.8">relax,</span> <span data-t="174.8">and</span> <span data-t="175.0">welcome</span> <span data-t="175.5">to</span> <span data-t="175.8">Southern</span> <span data-t="176.3">Demonology,</span> <span data-t="177.6">the</span> <span data-t="177.9">podcast</span> <span data-t="178.6">that</span> <span data-t="178.7">explores</span> <span data-t="179.5">all</span> <span data-t="179.8">of</span> <span data-t="180.
1">this</span> <span data-t="180.4">and</span> <span data-t="180.7">more.</span> <span data-t="185.4">Hello</span> <span data-t="186.1">all,</span> <span data-t="186.5">and</span> <span data-t="186.8">welcome</span> <span data-t="187.4">back</span> <span data-t="187.6">to</span> <span data-t="187.8">another</span> <span data-t="188.2">episode</span> <span data-t="188.6">of</span> <span data-t="188.9">Southern</span> <span data-t="189.4">Demonology.</span> <span data-t="190.8">As</span> <span data-t="191.1">always,</span> <span data-t="191.9">I</span> <span data-t="192.
2">am</span> <span data-t="192.4">your</span> <span data-t="192.6">friendly</span> <span data-t="193.1">neighborhood,</span> <span data-t="194.1">Ancient</span> <span data-t="194.7">Demonologist,</span> <span data-t="196.0">JJ.</span> <span data-t="197.2">Tonight</span> <span data-t="197.9">we</span> <span data-t="198.2">are</span> <span data-t="198.4">finally</span> <span data-t="198.9">beginning</span> <span data-t="199.4">the</span> <span data-t="199.5">Name</span> <span data-t="200.0">Demon</span> <span data-t="200.6">series</span> <span data-t="201.0">in</span> <span data-t="201.
3">earnest,</span> <span data-t="202.2">and</span> <span data-t="202.5">there</span> <span data-t="202.8">was</span> <span data-t="203.1">really</span> <span data-t="203.4">only</span> <span data-t="203.8">one</span> <span data-t="204.1">place</span> <span data-t="204.4">to</span> <span data-t="204.6">start.</span> <span data-t="205.1">Lilith</span> <span data-t="205.9">was</span> <span data-t="206.2">the</span> <span data-t="206.3">overwhelming</span> <span data-t="207.2">favorite</span> <span data-t="207.6">in</span> <span data-t="207.8">the</span> <span data-t="208.
0">poll</span> <span data-t="208.5">I</span> <span data-t="208.7">posted</span> <span data-t="209.2">on</span> <span data-t="209.5">YouTube.</span> <span data-t="210.5">But</span> <span data-t="210.8">even</span> <span data-t="211.1">apart</span> <span data-t="211.7">from</span> <span data-t="212.0">that,</span> <span data-t="212.6">she</span> <span data-t="212.9">is</span> <span data-t="213.2">exactly</span> <span data-t="214.2">the</span> <span data-t="214.5">kind</span> <span data-t="214.8">of</span> <span data-t="215.0">figure</span> <span data-t="215.5">that</span> <span data-t="215.
8">makes</span> <span data-t="216.2">this</span> <span data-t="216.5">whole</span> <span data-t="217.0">series</span> <span data-t="217.6">necessary.</span> <span data-t="218.8">Her</span> <span data-t="219.1">history</span> <span data-t="219.8">is</span> <span data-t="220.1">ancient,</span> <span data-t="221.0">layered,</span> <span data-t="222.0">and</span> <span data-t="222.2">spread</span> <span data-t="222.8">across</span> <span data-t="223.4">multiple</span> <span data-t="224.1">cultures,</span> <span data-t="225.0">which</span> <span data-t="225.3">means</span> <span data-t="225.
7">that</span> <span data-t="226.0">the</span> <span data-t="226.3">moment</span> <span data-t="226.6">anyone</span> <span data-t="227.1">starts</span> <span data-t="227.5">speaking</span> <span data-t="228.1">about</span> <span data-t="228.4">her</span> <span data-t="228.6">with</span> <span data-t="229.0">absolute</span> <span data-t="229.6">confidence,</span> <span data-t="231.0">there</span> <span data-t="231.3">is</span> <span data-t="231.6">a</span> <span data-t="231.8">very</span> <span data-t="232.2">good</span> <span data-t="232.5">chance</span> <span data-t="233.
0">they</span> <span data-t="233.3">have</span> <span data-t="233.4">already</span> <span data-t="233.9">flattened</span> <span data-t="234.6">the</span> <span data-t="234.8">evidence</span> <span data-t="235.7">into</span> <span data-t="236.0">something</span> <span data-t="236.6">much</span> <span data-t="237.0">cleaner</span> <span data-t="237.9">than</span> <span data-t="238.2">it</span> <span data-t="238.5">actually</span> <span data-t="239.1">is.</span> <span data-t="240.0">That</span> <span data-t="240.3">is</span> <span data-t="240.6">one</span> <span data-t="240.
7">of</span> <span data-t="240.9">the</span> <span data-t="241.0">reasons</span> <span data-t="241.6">I</span> <span data-t="241.8">wanted</span> <span data-t="242.2">to</span> <span data-t="242.4">begin</span> <span data-t="243.0">here.</span> <span data-t="243.8">Lilith</span> <span data-t="244.6">is</span> <span data-t="244.9">not</span> <span data-t="245.1">merely</span> <span data-t="245.6">famous,</span> <span data-t="246.6">she</span> <span data-t="247.0">is</span> <span data-t="247.3">instructive.</span> <span data-t="248.4">She</span> <span data-t="248.
8">forces</span> <span data-t="249.4">us</span> <span data-t="249.6">to</span> <span data-t="249.8">use</span> <span data-t="250.0">the</span> <span data-t="250.2">framework</span> <span data-t="251.0">from</span> <span data-t="251.1">the</span> <span data-t="251.4">introductory</span> <span data-t="252.2">episode.</span> <span data-t="253.5">We</span> <span data-t="253.8">have</span> <span data-t="254.1">to</span> <span data-t="254.2">ask</span> <span data-t="254.6">what</span> <span data-t="254.9">language</span> <span data-t="255.5">we</span> <span data-t="255.
7">are</span> <span data-t="255.9">dealing</span> <span data-t="256.4">with,</span> <span data-t="256.9">what</span> <span data-t="257.2">the</span> <span data-t="257.4">earliest</span> <span data-t="258.1">attested</span> <span data-t="258.8">form</span> <span data-t="259.0">of</span> <span data-t="259.2">the</span> <span data-t="259.4">name</span> <span data-t="259.9">is,</span> <span data-t="260.4">what</span> <span data-t="260.7">later</span> <span data-t="261.2">traditions</span> <span data-t="261.9">did</span> <span data-t="262.2">to</span> <span data-t="262.
4">that</span> <span data-t="262.7">name,</span> <span data-t="263.3">and</span> <span data-t="263.6">how</span> <span data-t="263.9">much</span> <span data-t="264.2">certainty</span> <span data-t="264.9">the</span> <span data-t="265.1">evidence</span> <span data-t="265.8">can</span> <span data-t="266.1">bear.</span> <span data-t="267.0">In</span> <span data-t="267.4">her</span> <span data-t="267.9">case,</span> <span data-t="268.6">all</span> <span data-t="268.9">of</span> <span data-t="269.1">those</span> <span data-t="269.5">questions</span> <span data-t="270.
2">matter</span> <span data-t="270.8">because</span> <span data-t="271.3">the</span> <span data-t="271.6">figure</span> <span data-t="272.2">most</span> <span data-t="272.5">people</span> <span data-t="272.6">call</span> <span data-t="273.0">Lilith</span> <span data-t="273.9">today</span> <span data-t="274.6">is</span> <span data-t="274.9">the</span> <span data-t="275.2">product</span> <span data-t="275.7">of</span> <span data-t="275.9">a</span> <span data-t="276.2">very</span> <span data-t="276.9">long</span> <span data-t="277.5">historical</span> <span data-t="278.
2">development</span> <span data-t="279.4">rather</span> <span data-t="279.9">than</span> <span data-t="280.2">a</span> <span data-t="280.4">single</span> <span data-t="281.0">stable</span> <span data-t="281.6">identity</span> <span data-t="282.4">preserved</span> <span data-t="283.0">intact</span> <span data-t="283.7">from</span> <span data-t="283.9">antiquity.</span> <span data-t="285.2">Now</span> <span data-t="285.6">before</span> <span data-t="286.1">we</span> <span data-t="286.3">go</span> <span data-t="286.5">further,</span> <span data-t="287.2">let</span> <span data-t="287.
4">me</span> <span data-t="287.7">state</span> <span data-t="288.0">something</span> <span data-t="288.5">plainly.</span> <span data-t="289.5">Most</span> <span data-t="290.0">people</span> <span data-t="290.3">inherit</span> <span data-t="290.9">Lilith</span> <span data-t="291.6">in</span> <span data-t="291.8">already</span> <span data-t="292.2">digested</span> <span data-t="293.1">form.</span> <span data-t="293.8">By</span> <span data-t="293.9">the</span> <span data-t="294.2">time</span> <span data-t="294.5">she</span> <span data-t="294.6">reaches</span> <span data-t="295.
2">pop</span> <span data-t="295.5">culture,</span> <span data-t="296.3">occult</span> <span data-t="297.0">books,</span> <span data-t="297.8">internet</span> <span data-t="298.5">demonology,</span> <span data-t="299.6">and</span> <span data-t="299.8">the</span> <span data-t="300.1">endless</span> <span data-t="300.6">machine</span> <span data-t="301.2">that</span> <span data-t="301.4">turns</span> <span data-t="301.9">ancient</span> <span data-t="302.6">material</span> <span data-t="303.5">into</span> <span data-t="303.8">bite-sized</span> <span data-t="305.
0">certainty,</span> <span data-t="306.2">she</span> <span data-t="306.4">usually</span> <span data-t="306.9">arrives</span> <span data-t="307.4">with</span> <span data-t="307.6">a</span> <span data-t="307.8">ready</span> <span data-t="308.2">made</span> <span data-t="308.6">biography.</span> <span data-t="310.0">People</span> <span data-t="310.6">know</span> <span data-t="311.0">her</span> <span data-t="311.2">as</span> <span data-t="311.4">Adam's</span> <span data-t="312.2">first</span> <span data-t="312.5">wife,</span> <span data-t="313.1">or</span> <span data-t="313.
3">as</span> <span data-t="313.4">the</span> <span data-t="313.7">mother</span> <span data-t="314.0">of</span> <span data-t="314.3">demons,</span> <span data-t="315.1">or</span> <span data-t="315.4">as</span> <span data-t="315.7">some</span> <span data-t="315.8">kind</span> <span data-t="316.2">of</span> <span data-t="316.4">primordial,</span> <span data-t="317.4">dark</span> <span data-t="317.9">feminine</span> <span data-t="318.7">force.</span> <span data-t="319.6">And</span> <span data-t="319.9">all</span> <span data-t="320.2">of</span> <span data-t="320.5">that</span> <span data-t="320.
7">feels</span> <span data-t="321.4">old</span> <span data-t="321.8">because</span> <span data-t="322.3">the</span> <span data-t="322.6">name</span> <span data-t="322.9">itself</span> <span data-t="323.4">is</span> <span data-t="323.8">old.</span> <span data-t="324.6">But</span> <span data-t="325.0">those</span> <span data-t="325.4">are</span> <span data-t="325.6">not</span> <span data-t="325.8">all</span> <span data-t="326.1">equally</span> <span data-t="326.6">early</span> <span data-t="327.3">ideas,</span> <span data-t="328.2">and</span> <span data-t="328.4">they</span> <span data-t="328.
6">certainly</span> <span data-t="329.2">are</span> <span data-t="329.4">not</span> <span data-t="329.7">all</span> <span data-t="329.9">biblical.</span> <span data-t="331.4">Some</span> <span data-t="331.8">are</span> <span data-t="332.1">later</span> <span data-t="332.6">developments,</span> <span data-t="333.7">some</span> <span data-t="334.0">are</span> <span data-t="334.2">interpretive</span> <span data-t="335.0">expansions,</span> <span data-t="336.1">and</span> <span data-t="336.4">some</span> <span data-t="336.7">are</span> <span data-t="337.0">simply</span> <span data-t="337.
4">the</span> <span data-t="337.8">result</span> <span data-t="338.1">of</span> <span data-t="338.3">multiple</span> <span data-t="338.9">traditions</span> <span data-t="339.6">being</span> <span data-t="340.0">piled</span> <span data-t="340.6">on</span> <span data-t="340.8">top</span> <span data-t="341.0">of</span> <span data-t="341.3">one</span> <span data-t="341.5">another</span> <span data-t="342.2">until</span> <span data-t="342.6">the</span> <span data-t="343.0">pile</span> <span data-t="343.4">starts</span> <span data-t="343.8">passing</span> <span data-t="344.
2">itself</span> <span data-t="344.7">off</span> <span data-t="345.0">as</span> <span data-t="345.3">history.</span> <span data-t="346.4">So</span> <span data-t="347.4">if</span> <span data-t="347.7">we</span> <span data-t="347.9">are</span> <span data-t="348.2">going</span> <span data-t="348.3">to</span> <span data-t="348.6">handle</span> <span data-t="349.0">Lilith</span> <span data-t="349.9">responsibly,</span> <span data-t="351.3">we</span> <span data-t="351.6">need</span> <span data-t="351.9">to</span> <span data-t="352.2">begin</span> <span data-t="352.8">where</span> <span data-t="353.
0">we</span> <span data-t="353.3">should</span> <span data-t="353.7">always</span> <span data-t="354.3">begin</span> <span data-t="355.4">with</span> <span data-t="355.7">the</span> <span data-t="356.0">name</span> <span data-t="356.5">itself.</span> <span data-t="357.6">The</span> <span data-t="357.8">Hebrew</span> <span data-t="358.6">term</span> <span data-t="359.2">Leit</span> <span data-t="360.4">appears</span> <span data-t="361.0">explicitly</span> <span data-t="361.8">in</span> <span data-t="362.1">Isaiah</span> <span data-t="362.7">thirty</span> <span data-t="363.
1">four</span> <span data-t="363.5">fourteen,</span> <span data-t="364.5">and</span> <span data-t="364.6">the</span> <span data-t="364.9">dictionary</span> <span data-t="365.5">of</span> <span data-t="365.8">deities</span> <span data-t="366.2">and</span> <span data-t="366.5">demons</span> <span data-t="367.0">in</span> <span data-t="367.1">the</span> <span data-t="367.4">Bible</span> <span data-t="368.0">says</span> <span data-t="368.5">that</span> <span data-t="368.8">although</span> <span data-t="369.2">it</span> <span data-t="369.4">is</span> <span data-t="369.
6">often</span> <span data-t="369.9">connected</span> <span data-t="370.6">by</span> <span data-t="370.9">popular</span> <span data-t="371.4">etymology</span> <span data-t="372.6">with</span> <span data-t="372.8">the</span> <span data-t="373.0">Hebrew</span> <span data-t="373.6">word</span> <span data-t="373.9">for</span> <span data-t="374.2">night,</span> <span data-t="375.0">it</span> <span data-t="375.2">is</span> <span data-t="375.4">better</span> <span data-t="375.9">understood</span> <span data-t="376.6">as</span> <span data-t="376.7">a</span> <span data-t="377.
0">loan</span> <span data-t="377.6">word</span> <span data-t="378.1">from</span> <span data-t="378.4">Achaidian</span> <span data-t="379.4">Lilitu,</span> <span data-t="380.6">itself</span> <span data-t="381.1">related</span> <span data-t="381.7">to</span> <span data-t="381.9">older</span> <span data-t="382.3">Sumerian</span> <span data-t="383.2">material</span> <span data-t="383.7">built</span> <span data-t="384.1">on</span> <span data-t="384.3">Lil.</span> <span data-t="385.6">That</span> <span data-t="385.9">means</span> <span data-t="386.3">the</span> <span data-t="386.
6">common</span> <span data-t="387.0">night</span> <span data-t="387.4">demon</span> <span data-t="387.9">association</span> <span data-t="388.6">is</span> <span data-t="388.9">not</span> <span data-t="389.1">meaningless,</span> <span data-t="390.2">but</span> <span data-t="390.5">it</span> <span data-t="390.6">is</span> <span data-t="390.9">not</span> <span data-t="391.0">the</span> <span data-t="391.3">whole</span> <span data-t="391.6">story</span> <span data-t="392.1">either.</span> <span data-t="392.7">It</span> <span data-t="393.0">tells</span> <span data-t="393.
4">us</span> <span data-t="393.6">something</span> <span data-t="394.2">about</span> <span data-t="394.5">how</span> <span data-t="394.8">later</span> <span data-t="395.7">interpreters</span> <span data-t="396.9">heard</span> <span data-t="397.4">the</span> <span data-t="397.7">name,</span> <span data-t="398.4">not</span> <span data-t="398.7">necessarily</span> <span data-t="399.7">where</span> <span data-t="399.9">the</span> <span data-t="400.2">figure</span> <span data-t="400.8">began.</span> <span data-t="401.8">And</span> <span data-t="402.2">that</span> <span data-t="402.
5">right</span> <span data-t="403.0">there</span> <span data-t="403.4">is</span> <span data-t="403.7">the</span> <span data-t="404.0">first</span> <span data-t="404.3">place</span> <span data-t="405.0">where</span> <span data-t="405.3">bad</span> <span data-t="405.8">demonology</span> <span data-t="406.8">gets</span> <span data-t="407.3">made.</span> <span data-t="408.0">People</span> <span data-t="408.6">hear</span> <span data-t="408.9">a</span> <span data-t="409.1">convenient</span> <span data-t="409.8">etymology,</span> <span data-t="411.1">decide</span> <span data-t="411.
7">they</span> <span data-t="411.9">have</span> <span data-t="412.2">solved</span> <span data-t="412.6">the</span> <span data-t="413.0">problem,</span> <span data-t="413.5">and</span> <span data-t="413.8">then</span> <span data-t="414.0">start</span> <span data-t="414.4">building</span> <span data-t="414.9">a</span> <span data-t="415.0">whole</span> <span data-t="415.4">theology</span> <span data-t="416.2">on</span> <span data-t="416.4">top</span> <span data-t="416.7">of</span> <span data-t="417.0">it.</span> <span data-t="417.4">But</span> <span data-t="417.8">Lilith</span> <span data-t="418.
5">is</span> <span data-t="418.6">one</span> <span data-t="418.8">of</span> <span data-t="418.9">those</span> <span data-t="419.2">cases</span> <span data-t="419.7">where</span> <span data-t="419.8">the</span> <span data-t="420.1">convenient</span> <span data-t="421.0">answer</span> <span data-t="421.6">is</span> <span data-t="421.9">not</span> <span data-t="422.2">the</span> <span data-t="422.6">deepest</span> <span data-t="423.4">answer.</span> <span data-t="424.5">The</span> <span data-t="424.6">night</span> <span data-t="425.3">hag</span> <span data-t="425.
8">reading</span> <span data-t="426.6">reflects</span> <span data-t="427.3">a</span> <span data-t="427.5">genuine</span> <span data-t="428.2">strand</span> <span data-t="428.7">of</span> <span data-t="429.0">reception,</span> <span data-t="429.8">and</span> <span data-t="430.1">it</span> <span data-t="430.2">certainly</span> <span data-t="430.8">affected</span> <span data-t="431.4">later</span> <span data-t="431.9">Jewish</span> <span data-t="432.4">and</span> <span data-t="432.6">Christian</span> <span data-t="433.2">imagination.</span> <span data-t="434.4">But</span> <span data-t="434.
6">the</span> <span data-t="434.9">deeper</span> <span data-t="435.4">roots</span> <span data-t="435.8">of</span> <span data-t="435.9">the</span> <span data-t="436.2">figure</span> <span data-t="436.6">lie</span> <span data-t="436.8">in</span> <span data-t="437.0">Mesopotamian</span> <span data-t="438.4">material,</span> <span data-t="439.6">not</span> <span data-t="439.9">in</span> <span data-t="440.2">a</span> <span data-t="440.6">neat</span> <span data-t="441.0">little</span> <span data-t="441.3">Hebrew</span> <span data-t="441.9">wordplay</span> <span data-t="443.
0">that</span> <span data-t="443.2">wraps</span> <span data-t="443.8">everything</span> <span data-t="444.3">up</span> <span data-t="444.6">in</span> <span data-t="444.7">a</span> <span data-t="445.0">bow.</span> <span data-t="446.5">If</span> <span data-t="447.0">we</span> <span data-t="447.3">go</span> <span data-t="447.5">back</span> <span data-t="447.8">into</span> <span data-t="448.1">that</span> <span data-t="448.2">Mesopotamian</span> <span data-t="449.5">background,</span> <span data-t="450.6">the</span> <span data-t="450.8">picture</span> <span data-t="451.
3">immediately</span> <span data-t="452.1">becomes</span> <span data-t="452.8">more</span> <span data-t="453.0">complex</span> <span data-t="453.7">and</span> <span data-t="454.0">frankly</span> <span data-t="454.9">more</span> <span data-t="455.2">interesting.</span> <span data-t="456.6">The</span> <span data-t="456.9">dictionary</span> <span data-t="457.8">notes</span> <span data-t="458.2">that</span> <span data-t="458.3">the</span> <span data-t="458.6">evidence</span> <span data-t="459.1">reaches</span> <span data-t="459.7">back</span> <span data-t="460.0">into</span> <span data-t="460.
2">the</span> <span data-t="460.4">third</span> <span data-t="460.8">millennium</span> <span data-t="461.8">BCE,</span> <span data-t="463.1">including</span> <span data-t="463.6">the</span> <span data-t="463.8">Sumerian</span> <span data-t="464.6">tradition</span> <span data-t="465.1">usually</span> <span data-t="465.5">connected</span> <span data-t="466.1">to</span> <span data-t="466.3">Gilgamesh</span> <span data-t="467.4">and</span> <span data-t="467.7">Kidu</span> <span data-t="468.6">and</span> <span data-t="468.7">the</span> <span data-t="468.9">Netherworld,</span> <span data-t="470.
0">where</span> <span data-t="470.3">a</span> <span data-t="470.6">related</span> <span data-t="471.1">demon</span> <span data-t="471.6">figure</span> <span data-t="472.0">appears</span> <span data-t="472.6">in</span> <span data-t="472.6">the</span> <span data-t="472.9">tree</span> <span data-t="473.3">associated</span> <span data-t="473.8">with</span> <span data-t="474.2">Inanna.</span> <span data-t="475.7">It</span> <span data-t="476.0">also</span> <span data-t="476.3">points</span> <span data-t="476.8">out</span> <span data-t="477.0">that</span> <span data-t="477.
3">forms</span> <span data-t="477.7">such</span> <span data-t="477.9">as</span> <span data-t="478.1">Lilu,</span> <span data-t="479.0">Lilitu,</span> <span data-t="479.8">and</span> <span data-t="479.9">Wardat</span> <span data-t="480.6">Lili</span> <span data-t="481.4">appear</span> <span data-t="481.8">together</span> <span data-t="482.3">in</span> <span data-t="482.5">Achaidean</span> <span data-t="483.7">texts</span> <span data-t="484.2">as</span> <span data-t="484.5">closely</span> <span data-t="485.1">related</span> <span data-t="485.8">beings</span> <span data-t="486.
6">whose</span> <span data-t="487.1">dominion</span> <span data-t="487.8">is</span> <span data-t="488.2">tied</span> <span data-t="488.5">to</span> <span data-t="488.8">stormy</span> <span data-t="489.4">winds.</span> <span data-t="490.9">That</span> <span data-t="491.2">ancient</span> <span data-t="491.8">association</span> <span data-t="492.6">with</span> <span data-t="493.0">wind</span> <span data-t="493.5">matters</span> <span data-t="494.1">much</span> <span data-t="494.3">more</span> <span data-t="494.6">than</span> <span data-t="494.8">it</span> <span data-t="495.
0">might</span> <span data-t="495.3">seem</span> <span data-t="495.6">at</span> <span data-t="495.8">first</span> <span data-t="496.2">glance.</span> <span data-t="497.0">In</span> <span data-t="497.3">the</span> <span data-t="497.5">modern</span> <span data-t="498.0">world,</span> <span data-t="498.6">wind</span> <span data-t="499.1">can</span> <span data-t="499.4">sound</span> <span data-t="499.7">like</span> <span data-t="499.8">a</span> <span data-t="500.1">vague</span> <span data-t="500.6">symbol.</span> <span data-t="501.5">In</span> <span data-t="501.8">the</span> <span data-t="502.
1">ancient</span> <span data-t="502.7">world</span> <span data-t="503.3">it</span> <span data-t="503.6">was</span> <span data-t="503.9">anything</span> <span data-t="504.7">but</span> <span data-t="505.0">vague.</span> <span data-t="506.3">Wind</span> <span data-t="507.0">enters</span> <span data-t="507.5">the</span> <span data-t="507.7">house</span> <span data-t="508.1">without</span> <span data-t="508.6">permission.</span> <span data-t="509.4">It</span> <span data-t="509.7">moves</span> <span data-t="510.1">through</span> <span data-t="510.5">cracks</span> <span data-t="511.
0">and</span> <span data-t="511.2">across</span> <span data-t="511.7">thresholds.</span> <span data-t="512.8">It</span> <span data-t="513.0">rattles</span> <span data-t="513.8">what</span> <span data-t="513.9">is</span> <span data-t="514.2">stable</span> <span data-t="514.6">and</span> <span data-t="514.9">unsettles</span> <span data-t="515.7">what</span> <span data-t="515.8">is</span> <span data-t="516.1">secure.</span> <span data-t="516.9">It</span> <span data-t="517.1">can</span> <span data-t="517.4">bring</span> <span data-t="517.7">life</span> <span data-t="518.
1">when</span> <span data-t="518.3">it</span> <span data-t="518.6">is</span> <span data-t="518.8">breath,</span> <span data-t="519.7">but</span> <span data-t="519.9">it</span> <span data-t="520.2">can</span> <span data-t="520.5">also</span> <span data-t="520.7">bring</span> <span data-t="521.3">terror</span> <span data-t="521.9">when</span> <span data-t="522.2">it</span> <span data-t="522.5">becomes</span> <span data-t="523.3">storm.</span> <span data-t="524.5">So</span> <span data-t="524.8">when</span> <span data-t="525.1">these</span> <span data-t="525.4">beings</span> <span data-t="525.
8">are</span> <span data-t="526.1">associated</span> <span data-t="526.8">with</span> <span data-t="527.0">the</span> <span data-t="527.4">wind,</span> <span data-t="528.1">we</span> <span data-t="528.3">are</span> <span data-t="528.6">not</span> <span data-t="528.8">dealing</span> <span data-t="529.3">with</span> <span data-t="529.4">a</span> <span data-t="529.7">decorative</span> <span data-t="530.5">poetic</span> <span data-t="531.2">flourish.</span> <span data-t="532.3">We</span> <span data-t="532.6">are</span> <span data-t="532.9">looking</span> <span data-t="533.
3">at</span> <span data-t="533.4">one</span> <span data-t="533.6">of</span> <span data-t="533.8">the</span> <span data-t="534.0">ways</span> <span data-t="534.4">the</span> <span data-t="534.6">ancient</span> <span data-t="535.1">imagination</span> <span data-t="536.0">described</span> <span data-t="536.6">a</span> <span data-t="536.9">hostile</span> <span data-t="537.6">presence</span> <span data-t="538.5">that</span> <span data-t="538.7">crossed</span> <span data-t="539.4">boundaries,</span> <span data-t="540.5">entered</span> <span data-t="541.0">domestic</span> <span data-t="541.
8">space,</span> <span data-t="542.5">and</span> <span data-t="542.8">made</span> <span data-t="543.2">itself</span> <span data-t="543.8">felt</span> <span data-t="544.3">without</span> <span data-t="544.9">becoming</span> <span data-t="545.5">fully</span> <span data-t="546.2">visible.</span> <span data-t="547.6">That</span> <span data-t="547.9">was</span> <span data-t="548.2">one</span> <span data-t="548.5">of</span> <span data-t="548.6">the</span> <span data-t="548.9">main</span> <span data-t="549.1">things</span> <span data-t="549.6">I</span> <span data-t="549.
8">emphasized</span> <span data-t="550.6">in</span> <span data-t="550.8">my</span> <span data-t="551.0">previous</span> <span data-t="551.5">episode</span> <span data-t="552.2">on</span> <span data-t="552.4">Lilith,</span> <span data-t="553.5">because</span> <span data-t="553.8">I</span> <span data-t="554.0">still</span> <span data-t="554.4">think</span> <span data-t="554.6">it</span> <span data-t="554.8">is</span> <span data-t="555.0">one</span> <span data-t="555.2">of</span> <span data-t="555.3">the</span> <span data-t="555.5">keys</span> <span data-t="556.0">to</span> <span data-t="556.
3">her</span> <span data-t="556.6">staying</span> <span data-t="557.3">power.</span> <span data-t="558.2">She</span> <span data-t="558.5">is</span> <span data-t="558.8">not</span> <span data-t="559.0">merely</span> <span data-t="559.5">associated</span> <span data-t="560.3">with</span> <span data-t="560.6">darkness,</span> <span data-t="561.5">she</span> <span data-t="561.8">is</span> <span data-t="562.0">associated</span> <span data-t="562.9">with</span> <span data-t="563.2">wind,</span> <span data-t="563.8">breath,</span> <span data-t="564.6">spirit,</span> <span data-t="565.
5">intrusion,</span> <span data-t="566.4">and</span> <span data-t="566.7">force.</span> <span data-t="567.4">She</span> <span data-t="567.8">occupies</span> <span data-t="568.6">that</span> <span data-t="568.8">unsettling</span> <span data-t="569.8">seam</span> <span data-t="570.4">between</span> <span data-t="571.0">the</span> <span data-t="571.3">tangible</span> <span data-t="572.1">and</span> <span data-t="572.3">the</span> <span data-t="572.6">intangible.</span> <span data-t="573.8">You</span> <span data-t="574.1">feel</span> <span data-t="574.6">her</span> <span data-t="574.
9">before</span> <span data-t="575.4">you</span> <span data-t="575.6">fully</span> <span data-t="576.2">see</span> <span data-t="576.5">her.</span> <span data-t="576.9">She</span> <span data-t="577.2">is</span> <span data-t="577.4">intimate</span> <span data-t="578.1">without</span> <span data-t="578.5">being</span> <span data-t="578.9">welcome.</span> <span data-t="579.7">She</span> <span data-t="580.0">enters</span> <span data-t="580.6">where</span> <span data-t="580.8">she</span> <span data-t="581.0">should</span> <span data-t="581.5">not</span> <span data-t="581.8">be.
</span> <span data-t="582.5">That</span> <span data-t="582.8">is</span> <span data-t="583.1">a</span> <span data-t="583.4">powerful</span> <span data-t="584.2">demonic</span> <span data-t="585.0">profile,</span> <span data-t="586.0">and</span> <span data-t="586.2">it</span> <span data-t="586.4">is</span> <span data-t="586.6">one</span> <span data-t="586.9">of</span> <span data-t="587.0">the</span> <span data-t="587.1">reasons</span> <span data-t="587.8">this</span> <span data-t="588.0">figure</span> <span data-t="588.4">kept</span> <span data-t="588.8">surviving.</span> <span data-t="590.
3">The</span> <span data-t="590.6">dictionary</span> <span data-t="591.4">pushes</span> <span data-t="591.9">the</span> <span data-t="592.2">matter</span> <span data-t="592.6">even</span> <span data-t="592.8">further</span> <span data-t="593.4">though,</span> <span data-t="594.1">because</span> <span data-t="594.4">it</span> <span data-t="594.6">says</span> <span data-t="595.0">that</span> <span data-t="595.2">the</span> <span data-t="595.4">sexual</span> <span data-t="596.1">aspect</span> <span data-t="596.6">of</span> <span data-t="596.9">these</span> <span data-t="597.
1">beings</span> <span data-t="598.0">is</span> <span data-t="598.3">of</span> <span data-t="598.6">great</span> <span data-t="599.3">importance.</span> <span data-t="600.4">Lilitu</span> <span data-t="601.7">and</span> <span data-t="601.9">related</span> <span data-t="602.6">figures</span> <span data-t="603.1">are</span> <span data-t="603.4">described</span> <span data-t="604.0">as</span> <span data-t="604.2">beings</span> <span data-t="604.7">without</span> <span data-t="605.3">husbands</span> <span data-t="606.2">who</span> <span data-t="606.5">wander</span> <span data-t="607.
1">in</span> <span data-t="607.3">search</span> <span data-t="607.8">of</span> <span data-t="608.1">men</span> <span data-t="608.4">and</span> <span data-t="608.7">enter</span> <span data-t="609.2">the</span> <span data-t="609.4">house</span> <span data-t="609.7">through</span> <span data-t="610.1">the</span> <span data-t="610.2">window.</span> <span data-t="611.4">Their</span> <span data-t="611.8">sexuality</span> <span data-t="612.8">is</span> <span data-t="613.1">not</span> <span data-t="613.4">normal</span> <span data-t="614.0">domestic</span> <span data-t="614.
7">sexuality,</span> <span data-t="615.9">but</span> <span data-t="616.2">something</span> <span data-t="616.6">irregular,</span> <span data-t="617.7">predatory,</span> <span data-t="618.7">and</span> <span data-t="619.0">destructive.</span> <span data-t="620.2">The</span> <span data-t="620.6">entry</span> <span data-t="621.2">also</span> <span data-t="621.5">notes</span> <span data-t="621.8">that</span> <span data-t="622.1">Lilith</span> <span data-t="622.9">cannot</span> <span data-t="623.4">properly</span> <span data-t="623.8">nourish</span> <span data-t="624.
5">children</span> <span data-t="625.3">and</span> <span data-t="625.6">instead</span> <span data-t="626.2">resembles</span> <span data-t="627.0">a</span> <span data-t="627.2">false</span> <span data-t="627.8">or</span> <span data-t="628.0">poisonous</span> <span data-t="628.7">wet</span> <span data-t="629.3">nurse,</span> <span data-t="630.1">which</span> <span data-t="630.3">is</span> <span data-t="630.6">one</span> <span data-t="630.7">of</span> <span data-t="630.9">the</span> <span data-t="631.0">reasons</span> <span data-t="631.5">the</span> <span data-t="631.
8">dictionary</span> <span data-t="632.5">says</span> <span data-t="633.0">she</span> <span data-t="633.1">becomes</span> <span data-t="633.7">closely</span> <span data-t="634.2">aligned</span> <span data-t="634.7">with</span> <span data-t="635.0">La</span> <span data-t="635.3">Moshtu</span> <span data-t="636.4">in</span> <span data-t="636.6">later</span> <span data-t="637.1">Mesopotamian</span> <span data-t="638.6">tradition.</span> <span data-t="639.8">That</span> <span data-t="640.1">gives</span> <span data-t="640.6">us</span> <span data-t="640.8">a</span> <span data-t="641.
1">very</span> <span data-t="641.4">important</span> <span data-t="641.8">early</span> <span data-t="642.4">matrix.</span> <span data-t="643.5">Before</span> <span data-t="644.1">Lilith</span> <span data-t="644.9">ever</span> <span data-t="645.1">becomes</span> <span data-t="645.5">Adam's</span> <span data-t="646.2">first</span> <span data-t="646.6">wife,</span> <span data-t="647.3">before</span> <span data-t="647.8">she</span> <span data-t="648.0">becomes</span> <span data-t="648.4">a</span> <span data-t="648.7">stock</span> <span data-t="649.2">figure</span> <span data-t="649.
5">in</span> <span data-t="649.8">later</span> <span data-t="650.2">folklore,</span> <span data-t="651.3">and</span> <span data-t="651.4">before</span> <span data-t="651.9">she</span> <span data-t="652.1">becomes</span> <span data-t="652.5">a</span> <span data-t="652.7">favorite</span> <span data-t="653.3">of</span> <span data-t="653.6">internet</span> <span data-t="654.1">occult</span> <span data-t="654.7">aesthetics,</span> <span data-t="655.8">she</span> <span data-t="656.0">is</span> <span data-t="656.2">already</span> <span data-t="656.6">tied</span> <span data-t="657.
0">to</span> <span data-t="657.2">a</span> <span data-t="657.4">recognizable</span> <span data-t="658.3">cluster</span> <span data-t="658.8">of</span> <span data-t="659.0">themes</span> <span data-t="660.1">the</span> <span data-t="660.4">wind,</span> <span data-t="661.0">nocturnal</span> <span data-t="661.9">danger,</span> <span data-t="662.6">intrusive</span> <span data-t="663.5">sexuality,</span> <span data-t="664.6">anti</span> <span data-t="665.1">domestic</span> <span data-t="665.8">disorder,</span> <span data-t="666.6">and</span> <span data-t="666.8">threat</span> <span data-t="667.
4">to</span> <span data-t="667.6">children.</span> <span data-t="668.6">The</span> <span data-t="668.9">later</span> <span data-t="669.4">traditions</span> <span data-t="670.1">do</span> <span data-t="670.3">not</span> <span data-t="670.6">all</span> <span data-t="670.7">appear</span> <span data-t="671.3">out</span> <span data-t="671.4">of</span> <span data-t="671.7">nowhere.</span> <span data-t="672.6">Many</span> <span data-t="673.1">of</span> <span data-t="673.4">them</span> <span data-t="673.6">are</span> <span data-t="673.8">developments</span> <span data-t="674.
6">of</span> <span data-t="674.8">motifs</span> <span data-t="675.4">that</span> <span data-t="675.7">are</span> <span data-t="675.8">already</span> <span data-t="676.4">present</span> <span data-t="677.0">very</span> <span data-t="677.3">early,</span> <span data-t="678.2">though</span> <span data-t="678.7">not</span> <span data-t="679.0">always</span> <span data-t="679.5">in</span> <span data-t="679.7">the</span> <span data-t="679.9">same</span> <span data-t="680.5">form,</span> <span data-t="681.1">and</span> <span data-t="681.4">certainly</span> <span data-t="682.
0">not</span> <span data-t="682.2">with</span> <span data-t="682.5">the</span> <span data-t="682.6">same</span> <span data-t="683.0">level</span> <span data-t="683.4">of</span> <span data-t="683.7">elaboration.</span> <span data-t="685.3">Now</span> <span data-t="685.8">this</span> <span data-t="686.0">is</span> <span data-t="686.2">where</span> <span data-t="686.5">I</span> <span data-t="686.7">want</span> <span data-t="686.9">to</span> <span data-t="687.1">slow</span> <span data-t="687.8">down</span> <span data-t="688.1">and</span> <span data-t="688.4">make</span> <span data-t="688.
7">the</span> <span data-t="689.0">distinction</span> <span data-t="689.8">that</span> <span data-t="690.2">keeps</span> <span data-t="690.6">getting</span> <span data-t="691.0">blurred.</span> <span data-t="692.3">The</span> <span data-t="692.6">presence</span> <span data-t="693.0">of</span> <span data-t="693.3">those</span> <span data-t="693.6">early</span> <span data-t="694.1">motifs</span> <span data-t="695.0">does</span> <span data-t="695.4">not</span> <span data-t="695.7">mean</span> <span data-t="696.1">that</span> <span data-t="696.2">every</span> <span data-t="696.
6">later</span> <span data-t="697.1">Lilith</span> <span data-t="697.9">story</span> <span data-t="698.5">is</span> <span data-t="698.7">equally</span> <span data-t="699.4">ancient.</span> <span data-t="700.3">It</span> <span data-t="700.6">means</span> <span data-t="701.0">the</span> <span data-t="701.3">later</span> <span data-t="701.8">stories</span> <span data-t="702.2">have</span> <span data-t="702.5">roots.</span> <span data-t="703.3">That</span> <span data-t="703.6">is</span> <span data-t="703.8">different.</span> <span data-t="704.6">There</span> <span data-t="705.
0">is</span> <span data-t="705.2">a</span> <span data-t="705.4">major</span> <span data-t="705.9">difference</span> <span data-t="706.4">between</span> <span data-t="707.0">saying</span> <span data-t="707.7">this</span> <span data-t="708.2">later</span> <span data-t="708.6">legend</span> <span data-t="709.2">developed</span> <span data-t="709.8">out</span> <span data-t="709.9">of</span> <span data-t="710.2">older</span> <span data-t="710.8">material</span> <span data-t="711.8">and</span> <span data-t="712.1">saying</span> <span data-t="713.0">this</span> <span data-t="713.
4">later</span> <span data-t="713.9">legend</span> <span data-t="714.6">was</span> <span data-t="714.9">there</span> <span data-t="715.2">all</span> <span data-t="715.5">along.</span> <span data-t="716.7">Lilith</span> <span data-t="717.6">is</span> <span data-t="717.8">one</span> <span data-t="718.0">of</span> <span data-t="718.2">the</span> <span data-t="718.5">best</span> <span data-t="718.7">examples</span> <span data-t="719.5">of</span> <span data-t="719.8">why</span> <span data-t="720.2">that</span> <span data-t="720.4">distinction</span> <span data-t="721.2">matters.
</span> <span data-t="722.2">So</span> <span data-t="722.5">let's</span> <span data-t="723.0">move</span> <span data-t="723.3">from</span> <span data-t="723.4">the</span> <span data-t="723.6">Mesopotamian</span> <span data-t="724.9">background</span> <span data-t="725.9">into</span> <span data-t="726.5">the</span> <span data-t="726.7">Hebrew</span> <span data-t="727.4">Bible</span> <span data-t="728.0">itself.</span> <span data-t="729.5">The</span> <span data-t="729.8">dictionary</span> <span data-t="730.4">of</span> <span data-t="730.6">deities</span> <span data-t="731.
0">and</span> <span data-t="731.2">demons</span> <span data-t="731.7">in</span> <span data-t="731.8">the</span> <span data-t="731.9">Bible</span> <span data-t="732.3">is</span> <span data-t="732.5">extremely</span> <span data-t="733.2">clear</span> <span data-t="733.8">that</span> <span data-t="734.1">Isaiah</span> <span data-t="734.7">3414</span> <span data-t="736.4">contains</span> <span data-t="737.1">the</span> <span data-t="737.4">only</span> <span data-t="737.8">explicit</span> <span data-t="738.6">Hebrew</span> <span data-t="739.3">Bible</span> <span data-t="739.
7">reference</span> <span data-t="740.2">to</span> <span data-t="740.3">Lilith.</span> <span data-t="741.7">That</span> <span data-t="742.0">is</span> <span data-t="742.3">it.</span> <span data-t="743.1">One</span> <span data-t="743.6">direct</span> <span data-t="744.2">Hebrew</span> <span data-t="744.6">Bible</span> <span data-t="745.2">citation.</span> <span data-t="746.1">And</span> <span data-t="746.3">the</span> <span data-t="746.6">context</span> <span data-t="747.2">there</span> <span data-t="747.4">is</span> <span data-t="747.7">not</span> <span data-t="747.
8">a</span> <span data-t="748.1">domestic</span> <span data-t="748.7">scene,</span> <span data-t="749.4">not</span> <span data-t="749.7">Eden,</span> <span data-t="750.3">and</span> <span data-t="750.6">not</span> <span data-t="750.7">a</span> <span data-t="751.0">demonological</span> <span data-t="751.8">biography.</span> <span data-t="752.7">It</span> <span data-t="752.9">is</span> <span data-t="753.0">a</span> <span data-t="753.2">judgment</span> <span data-t="753.8">oracle</span> <span data-t="754.3">against</span> <span data-t="754.7">Edom,</span> <span data-t="755.
4">which</span> <span data-t="755.6">is</span> <span data-t="755.8">portrayed</span> <span data-t="756.3">as</span> <span data-t="756.5">a</span> <span data-t="756.6">desolated</span> <span data-t="757.4">wasteland</span> <span data-t="758.2">inhabited</span> <span data-t="759.0">by</span> <span data-t="759.2">uncanny</span> <span data-t="759.9">creatures,</span> <span data-t="760.6">desert</span> <span data-t="761.2">beings,</span> <span data-t="761.8">birds</span> <span data-t="762.3">of</span> <span data-t="762.6">prey,</span> <span data-t="763.2">and</span> <span data-t="763.
5">agents</span> <span data-t="764.2">of</span> <span data-t="764.4">ruin.</span> <span data-t="765.4">Lilith</span> <span data-t="766.2">appears</span> <span data-t="766.6">there</span> <span data-t="766.8">among</span> <span data-t="767.1">the</span> <span data-t="767.3">things</span> <span data-t="767.7">that</span> <span data-t="767.9">belong</span> <span data-t="768.4">in</span> <span data-t="768.6">cursed</span> <span data-t="769.4">places.</span> <span data-t="770.3">That</span> <span data-t="770.6">fits</span> <span data-t="771.0">exactly</span> <span data-t="771.
6">with</span> <span data-t="771.8">the</span> <span data-t="772.0">way</span> <span data-t="772.2">I</span> <span data-t="772.4">handled</span> <span data-t="772.9">this</span> <span data-t="773.0">in</span> <span data-t="773.3">my</span> <span data-t="773.4">previous</span> <span data-t="773.9">episode</span> <span data-t="774.4">on</span> <span data-t="774.6">Lilith.</span> <span data-t="775.8">In</span> <span data-t="776.1">Isaiah,</span> <span data-t="777.1">she</span> <span data-t="777.4">belongs</span> <span data-t="777.8">to</span> <span data-t="777.9">the</span> <span data-t="778.
2">ecology</span> <span data-t="779.0">of</span> <span data-t="779.2">desolation.</span> <span data-t="780.4">She</span> <span data-t="780.6">appears</span> <span data-t="781.2">alongside</span> <span data-t="781.9">hyenas,</span> <span data-t="782.9">satyrs,</span> <span data-t="783.7">owls,</span> <span data-t="784.3">kites,</span> <span data-t="785.0">and</span> <span data-t="785.3">the</span> <span data-t="785.5">rest</span> <span data-t="785.7">of</span> <span data-t="785.8">that</span> <span data-t="786.1">haunted</span> <span data-t="786.6">bestiary.</span> <span data-t="788.
2">The</span> <span data-t="788.5">point</span> <span data-t="788.8">is</span> <span data-t="789.1">not</span> <span data-t="789.4">that</span> <span data-t="789.7">Isaiah</span> <span data-t="790.3">is</span> <span data-t="790.5">giving</span> <span data-t="791.0">us</span> <span data-t="791.1">a</span> <span data-t="791.4">long</span> <span data-t="791.7">theological</span> <span data-t="792.6">disquisition</span> <span data-t="793.4">about</span> <span data-t="793.7">Lilith.</span> <span data-t="794.8">The</span> <span data-t="795.1">point</span> <span data-t="795.
4">is</span> <span data-t="795.6">that</span> <span data-t="795.8">he</span> <span data-t="796.0">is</span> <span data-t="796.2">drawing</span> <span data-t="796.8">on</span> <span data-t="797.0">a</span> <span data-t="797.2">known</span> <span data-t="797.7">figure</span> <span data-t="798.2">whose</span> <span data-t="798.7">presence</span> <span data-t="799.4">intensifies</span> <span data-t="800.3">the</span> <span data-t="800.6">image</span> <span data-t="800.9">of</span> <span data-t="801.1">a</span> <span data-t="801.4">land</span> <span data-t="801.8">so</span> <span data-t="802.
0">devastated</span> <span data-t="803.1">that</span> <span data-t="803.4">only</span> <span data-t="803.8">the</span> <span data-t="804.1">anti</span> <span data-t="804.6">human</span> <span data-t="805.1">world</span> <span data-t="805.6">remains.</span> <span data-t="806.6">And</span> <span data-t="807.0">that</span> <span data-t="807.3">context</span> <span data-t="807.9">should</span> <span data-t="808.3">keep</span> <span data-t="808.6">us</span> <span data-t="808.9">honest.</span> <span data-t="809.8">Isaiah</span> <span data-t="810.6">is</span> <span data-t="810.
8">not</span> <span data-t="811.0">trying</span> <span data-t="811.3">to</span> <span data-t="811.4">tell</span> <span data-t="811.8">us</span> <span data-t="812.0">her</span> <span data-t="812.3">origin,</span> <span data-t="813.1">her</span> <span data-t="813.4">rank,</span> <span data-t="814.2">her</span> <span data-t="814.5">powers,</span> <span data-t="815.1">or</span> <span data-t="815.4">her</span> <span data-t="815.6">biography.</span> <span data-t="816.8">He</span> <span data-t="817.0">is</span> <span data-t="817.4">painting</span> <span data-t="818.0">a</span> <span data-t="818.
2">landscape.</span> <span data-t="819.4">Lilith</span> <span data-t="820.2">belongs</span> <span data-t="820.6">in</span> <span data-t="820.8">that</span> <span data-t="821.0">landscape</span> <span data-t="821.9">because</span> <span data-t="822.2">she</span> <span data-t="822.6">is</span> <span data-t="822.9">part</span> <span data-t="823.1">of</span> <span data-t="823.4">the</span> <span data-t="823.5">symbolic</span> <span data-t="824.4">world</span> <span data-t="824.8">of</span> <span data-t="825.0">ruin,</span> <span data-t="825.9">wilderness,</span> <span data-t="827.
0">terror,</span> <span data-t="827.8">and</span> <span data-t="828.2">inhabited</span> <span data-t="829.0">desolation.</span> <span data-t="830.2">That</span> <span data-t="830.5">is</span> <span data-t="830.7">what</span> <span data-t="830.9">the</span> <span data-t="831.1">text</span> <span data-t="831.4">gives</span> <span data-t="831.9">us.</span> <span data-t="832.3">It</span> <span data-t="832.6">is</span> <span data-t="832.8">meaningful,</span> <span data-t="833.8">but</span> <span data-t="833.9">it</span> <span data-t="834.2">is</span> <span data-t="834.
5">also</span> <span data-t="834.8">limited.</span> <span data-t="835.8">It</span> <span data-t="836.0">is</span> <span data-t="836.2">enough</span> <span data-t="836.6">to</span> <span data-t="836.9">say</span> <span data-t="837.1">something</span> <span data-t="837.7">real</span> <span data-t="838.2">without</span> <span data-t="838.7">pretending</span> <span data-t="839.4">it</span> <span data-t="839.7">says</span> <span data-t="840.2">more</span> <span data-t="840.5">than</span> <span data-t="840.7">it</span> <span data-t="841.0">does.</span> <span data-t="841.
7">At</span> <span data-t="841.9">the</span> <span data-t="842.2">same</span> <span data-t="842.7">time,</span> <span data-t="843.3">I</span> <span data-t="843.6">do</span> <span data-t="843.8">not</span> <span data-t="844.2">want</span> <span data-t="844.4">to</span> <span data-t="844.6">stop</span> <span data-t="845.0">with</span> <span data-t="845.2">the</span> <span data-t="845.4">direct</span> <span data-t="845.9">Isaiah</span> <span data-t="846.7">citation</span> <span data-t="847.9">because</span> <span data-t="848.4">I</span> <span data-t="848.7">also</span> <span data-t="849.
0">want</span> <span data-t="849.4">to</span> <span data-t="849.6">preserve</span> <span data-t="850.2">something</span> <span data-t="850.6">I</span> <span data-t="851.0">said</span> <span data-t="851.3">in</span> <span data-t="851.6">my</span> <span data-t="851.9">previous</span> <span data-t="852.5">episode</span> <span data-t="853.0">on</span> <span data-t="853.3">Lilith,</span> <span data-t="854.4">and</span> <span data-t="854.7">that</span> <span data-t="855.0">is</span> <span data-t="855.4">the</span> <span data-t="855.7">importance</span> <span data-t="856.
2">of</span> <span data-t="856.3">the</span> <span data-t="856.6">elusive</span> <span data-t="857.3">strand</span> <span data-t="857.8">in</span> <span data-t="858.1">Psalm</span> <span data-t="858.6">ninety</span> <span data-t="859.2">one,</span> <span data-t="859.9">especially</span> <span data-t="860.7">the</span> <span data-t="861.0">phrase</span> <span data-t="861.8">the</span> <span data-t="862.2">arrow</span> <span data-t="862.8">that</span> <span data-t="863.0">flieth</span> <span data-t="863.9">by</span> <span data-t="864.2">day.</span> <span data-t="865.
1">Now</span> <span data-t="865.5">to</span> <span data-t="865.8">be</span> <span data-t="866.0">precise,</span> <span data-t="866.6">Psalm</span> <span data-t="867.2">ninety</span> <span data-t="867.5">one</span> <span data-t="867.8">does</span> <span data-t="868.2">not</span> <span data-t="868.5">explicitly</span> <span data-t="869.4">name</span> <span data-t="869.8">Lilith.</span> <span data-t="871.0">That</span> <span data-t="871.3">distinction</span> <span data-t="871.9">matters,</span> <span data-t="872.5">and</span> <span data-t="872.6">I</span> <span data-t="872.
9">do</span> <span data-t="873.1">not</span> <span data-t="873.3">want</span> <span data-t="873.5">to</span> <span data-t="873.8">muddy</span> <span data-t="874.4">it,</span> <span data-t="874.9">but</span> <span data-t="875.1">the</span> <span data-t="875.4">dictionary</span> <span data-t="876.1">of</span> <span data-t="876.3">deities</span> <span data-t="876.9">and</span> <span data-t="877.1">demons</span> <span data-t="877.9">notes</span> <span data-t="878.5">that</span> <span data-t="878.7">in</span> <span data-t="879.0">later</span> <span data-t="879.4">Jewish</span> <span data-t="879.
9">tradition</span> <span data-t="880.6">a</span> <span data-t="880.9">demon</span> <span data-t="881.4">that</span> <span data-t="881.6">shoots</span> <span data-t="882.1">like</span> <span data-t="882.3">an</span> <span data-t="882.6">arrow</span> <span data-t="883.2">is</span> <span data-t="883.8">identified</span> <span data-t="884.7">with</span> <span data-t="885.0">Lilith,</span> <span data-t="886.2">and</span> <span data-t="886.4">that</span> <span data-t="886.6">the</span> <span data-t="886.9">meteorite</span> <span data-t="887.8">was</span> <span data-t="888.
1">even</span> <span data-t="888.3">known</span> <span data-t="888.7">in</span> <span data-t="888.9">Jewish</span> <span data-t="889.4">tradition</span> <span data-t="890.1">as</span> <span data-t="890.4">the</span> <span data-t="890.7">arrow</span> <span data-t="891.3">of</span> <span data-t="891.5">Lilith.</span> <span data-t="892.5">So</span> <span data-t="892.7">the</span> <span data-t="893.0">careful</span> <span data-t="893.4">way</span> <span data-t="893.6">to</span> <span data-t="893.8">frame</span> <span data-t="894.4">this</span> <span data-t="894.7">is</span> <span data-t="895.
0">that</span> <span data-t="895.5">Isaiah</span> <span data-t="896.2">thirty</span> <span data-t="896.7">four</span> <span data-t="897.1">fourteen</span> <span data-t="898.0">gives</span> <span data-t="898.7">us</span> <span data-t="899.0">the</span> <span data-t="899.1">explicit</span> <span data-t="900.0">Hebrew</span> <span data-t="900.6">Bible</span> <span data-t="901.2">citation,</span> <span data-t="902.2">while</span> <span data-t="902.6">Psalm</span> <span data-t="903.0">91</span> <span data-t="904.3">participates</span> <span data-t="905.3">in</span> <span data-t="905.
5">an</span> <span data-t="905.8">elusive</span> <span data-t="906.6">field</span> <span data-t="907.3">that</span> <span data-t="907.6">later</span> <span data-t="908.2">Jewish</span> <span data-t="908.8">interpretation</span> <span data-t="910.0">associates</span> <span data-t="910.9">with</span> <span data-t="911.1">Lilith's</span> <span data-t="912.0">mode</span> <span data-t="912.3">of</span> <span data-t="912.6">attack.</span>
<span data-t="915.5">ProFootball</span> <span data-t="916.3">is</span> <span data-t="916.4">back,</span> <span data-t="916.6">and</span> <span data-t="916.9">so</span> <span data-t="917.0">are</span> <span data-t="917.2">the</span> <span data-t="917.3">predictions.</span> <span data-t="917.8">Trade</span> <span data-t="918.1">yours</span> <span data-t="918.3">on</span> <span data-t="918.4">Calci,</span> <span data-t="919.2">America's</span> <span data-t="919.6">number</span> <span data-t="919.8">one</span> <span data-t="919.9">prediction</span> <span data-t="920.
3">market</span> <span data-t="920.5">platform.</span> <span data-t="921.0">Indy</span> <span data-t="921.4">takes</span> <span data-t="921.5">on</span> <span data-t="921.7">Kansas</span> <span data-t="922.0">City,</span> <span data-t="922.2">with</span> <span data-t="922.4">Indy</span> <span data-t="922.8">currently</span> <span data-t="923.1">trading</span> <span data-t="923.3">at</span> <span data-t="923.4">28%</span> <span data-t="924.0">to</span> <span data-t="924.2">win.</span> <span data-t="924.4">A</span> <span data-t="924.6">$100</span> <span data-t="925.
2">trade</span> <span data-t="925.4">pays</span> <span data-t="925.7">out</span> <span data-t="925.9">$336</span> <span data-t="926.9">if</span> <span data-t="927.0">they</span> <span data-t="927.2">win.</span> <span data-t="927.6">Download</span> <span data-t="928.1">CalChi.</span> <span data-t="928.8">Use</span> <span data-t="929.0">code</span> <span data-t="929.3">AUDIO</span> <span data-t="929.8">25</span> <span data-t="930.2">to</span> <span data-t="930.3">get</span> <span data-t="930.6">$55</span> <span data-t="931.4">when</span> <span data-t="931.4">you</span> <span data-t="931.
6">trade</span> <span data-t="932.0">$25.</span> <span data-t="933.1">K-A-L-S-H-I.</span> <span data-t="934.8">CalCHI.</span> <span data-t="935.6">Trade</span> <span data-t="935.8">what's</span> <span data-t="936.1">next.</span> <span data-t="936.5">$18</span> <span data-t="936.9">plus</span> <span data-t="937.1">only.</span> <span data-t="937.4">Restrictions</span> <span data-t="937.8">and</span> <span data-t="938.0">eligibility</span> <span data-t="938.6">requirements</span> <span data-t="939.0">apply.</span> <span data-t="939.5">Event</span> <span data-t="939.
8">contract</span> <span data-t="940.2">trading</span> <span data-t="940.5">involves</span> <span data-t="940.8">risk</span> <span data-t="941.1">and</span> <span data-t="941.3">may</span> <span data-t="941.4">not</span> <span data-t="941.5">be</span> <span data-t="941.6">suitable</span> <span data-t="942.0">for</span> <span data-t="942.1">all</span> <span data-t="942.2">investors.</span> <span data-t="942.6">Calci</span> <span data-t="943.2">products</span> <span data-t="943.4">are</span> <span data-t="943.5">not</span> <span data-t="943.7">available</span> <span data-t="944.
0">in</span> <span data-t="944.1">all</span> <span data-t="944.2">jurisdictions.</span> <span data-t="944.9">Prices,</span> <span data-t="945.3">values,</span> <span data-t="945.6">and</span> <span data-t="945.8">available</span> <span data-t="946.1">markets</span> <span data-t="946.4">may</span> <span data-t="946.6">differ</span> <span data-t="946.8">from</span> <span data-t="946.9">those</span> <span data-t="947.1">mentioned.</span> <span data-t="947.5">For</span> <span data-t="947.7">more</span> <span data-t="947.8">information,</span> <span data-t="948.1">see</span> <span data-t="948.
3">CalChi.com/slash</span> <span data-t="949.6">regulatory.</span>
<span data-t="1031.1">And</span> <span data-t="1031.4">honestly,</span> <span data-t="1032.6">that</span> <span data-t="1032.9">is</span> <span data-t="1033.2">exactly</span> <span data-t="1033.9">the</span> <span data-t="1034.2">kind</span> <span data-t="1034.4">of</span> <span data-t="1034.6">distinction</span> <span data-t="1035.4">this</span> <span data-t="1035.6">whole</span> <span data-t="1036.0">series</span> <span data-t="1036.6">needs.</span> <span data-t="1037.6">Explicit</span> <span data-t="1038.6">reference</span> <span data-t="1039.2">is</span> <span data-t="1039.
4">one</span> <span data-t="1039.7">thing.</span> <span data-t="1040.4">Elusive</span> <span data-t="1041.3">development</span> <span data-t="1042.1">is</span> <span data-t="1042.4">another.</span> <span data-t="1043.3">They</span> <span data-t="1043.7">are</span> <span data-t="1044.0">related,</span> <span data-t="1044.8">but</span> <span data-t="1045.0">they</span> <span data-t="1045.3">are</span> <span data-t="1045.5">not</span> <span data-t="1045.8">interchangeable.</span> <span data-t="1047.2">If</span> <span data-t="1047.6">we</span> <span data-t="1047.8">do</span> <span data-t="1048.
1">not</span> <span data-t="1048.2">keep</span> <span data-t="1048.6">that</span> <span data-t="1049.0">straight,</span> <span data-t="1049.7">then</span> <span data-t="1050.0">we</span> <span data-t="1050.2">wind</span> <span data-t="1050.6">up</span> <span data-t="1050.9">overclaiming</span> <span data-t="1051.8">the</span> <span data-t="1052.1">text</span> <span data-t="1052.6">and</span> <span data-t="1052.9">treating</span> <span data-t="1053.5">later</span> <span data-t="1054.1">interpretations</span> <span data-t="1055.4">as</span> <span data-t="1055.7">if</span> <span data-t="1056.
0">they</span> <span data-t="1056.2">were</span> <span data-t="1056.5">already</span> <span data-t="1057.0">sitting</span> <span data-t="1057.4">there</span> <span data-t="1057.6">fully</span> <span data-t="1058.2">formed</span> <span data-t="1058.6">in</span> <span data-t="1058.8">the</span> <span data-t="1059.0">biblical</span> <span data-t="1059.8">material.</span> <span data-t="1061.0">That</span> <span data-t="1061.4">same</span> <span data-t="1062.0">elusive</span> <span data-t="1062.9">field</span> <span data-t="1063.5">becomes</span> <span data-t="1064.
3">much</span> <span data-t="1064.6">more</span> <span data-t="1064.9">explicit</span> <span data-t="1065.7">in</span> <span data-t="1065.8">the</span> <span data-t="1066.1">Dead</span> <span data-t="1066.6">Sea</span> <span data-t="1066.9">Scrolls,</span> <span data-t="1068.0">especially</span> <span data-t="1068.6">in</span> <span data-t="1068.8">four</span> <span data-t="1069.4">Q</span> <span data-t="1069.8">five</span> <span data-t="1070.2">one</span> <span data-t="1070.4">zero</span> <span data-t="1070.7">to</span> <span data-t="1071.0">five</span> <span data-t="1071.
4">one,</span> <span data-t="1072.3">a</span> <span data-t="1072.6">text</span> <span data-t="1073.0">I</span> <span data-t="1073.2">have</span> <span data-t="1073.4">talked</span> <span data-t="1073.9">about</span> <span data-t="1074.2">before</span> <span data-t="1075.0">and</span> <span data-t="1075.3">still</span> <span data-t="1075.8">think</span> <span data-t="1076.1">is</span> <span data-t="1076.3">one</span> <span data-t="1076.6">of</span> <span data-t="1076.7">the</span> <span data-t="1077.0">most</span> <span data-t="1077.4">important</span> <span data-t="1077.
7">windows</span> <span data-t="1078.7">into</span> <span data-t="1079.0">how</span> <span data-t="1079.5">Second</span> <span data-t="1080.0">Temple</span> <span data-t="1080.5">Jews</span> <span data-t="1081.0">imagined</span> <span data-t="1081.7">hostile</span> <span data-t="1082.5">spirits.</span> <span data-t="1083.8">In</span> <span data-t="1084.2">that</span> <span data-t="1084.5">protective</span> <span data-t="1085.2">text,</span> <span data-t="1085.8">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1086.6">is</span> <span data-t="1086.7">named</span> <span data-t="1087.
1">directly</span> <span data-t="1087.8">among</span> <span data-t="1088.2">the</span> <span data-t="1088.5">spirits</span> <span data-t="1089.1">of</span> <span data-t="1089.2">the</span> <span data-t="1089.5">angels</span> <span data-t="1090.1">of</span> <span data-t="1090.2">destruction,</span> <span data-t="1091.4">demons,</span> <span data-t="1092.6">howlers,</span> <span data-t="1093.7">desert</span> <span data-t="1094.1">dwellers,</span> <span data-t="1095.1">and</span> <span data-t="1095.4">those</span> <span data-t="1095.7">spirits</span> <span data-t="1096.
2">who</span> <span data-t="1096.5">strike</span> <span data-t="1096.9">suddenly</span> <span data-t="1097.4">in</span> <span data-t="1097.6">order</span> <span data-t="1097.9">to</span> <span data-t="1098.1">lead</span> <span data-t="1098.5">astray</span> <span data-t="1099.2">and</span> <span data-t="1099.5">terrify.</span> <span data-t="1100.7">In</span> <span data-t="1101.0">my</span> <span data-t="1101.3">previous</span> <span data-t="1101.8">episode</span> <span data-t="1102.4">on</span> <span data-t="1102.6">Lilith,</span> <span data-t="1103.6">I</span> <span data-t="1103.
8">pointed</span> <span data-t="1104.3">out</span> <span data-t="1104.6">that</span> <span data-t="1104.8">this</span> <span data-t="1105.0">text</span> <span data-t="1105.4">essentially</span> <span data-t="1106.2">does</span> <span data-t="1106.6">by</span> <span data-t="1107.0">direct</span> <span data-t="1107.5">naming</span> <span data-t="1108.0">what</span> <span data-t="1108.2">Psalm</span> <span data-t="1108.8">ninety</span> <span data-t="1109.2">one</span> <span data-t="1109.5">does</span> <span data-t="1110.2">by</span> <span data-t="1110.5">illusion.</span> <span data-t="1111.
8">The</span> <span data-t="1112.0">Psalm</span> <span data-t="1112.6">builds</span> <span data-t="1113.0">a</span> <span data-t="1113.2">field</span> <span data-t="1113.4">of</span> <span data-t="1113.7">terror,</span> <span data-t="1114.2">suddenness,</span> <span data-t="1115.3">night,</span> <span data-t="1116.1">assault,</span> <span data-t="1117.0">and</span> <span data-t="1117.2">destruction,</span> <span data-t="1118.2">while</span> <span data-t="1118.6">four</span> <span data-t="1119.2">Q</span> <span data-t="1119.6">five</span> <span data-t="1120.0">one</span> <span data-t="1120.
2">zero</span> <span data-t="1120.6">to</span> <span data-t="1120.9">five</span> <span data-t="1121.2">one</span> <span data-t="1122.1">fills</span> <span data-t="1122.7">out</span> <span data-t="1123.0">that</span> <span data-t="1123.2">field</span> <span data-t="1123.7">and</span> <span data-t="1123.9">names</span> <span data-t="1124.5">some</span> <span data-t="1124.7">of</span> <span data-t="1125.0">the</span> <span data-t="1125.2">entities</span> <span data-t="1125.9">within</span> <span data-t="1126.4">it.</span> <span data-t="1126.9">That</span> <span data-t="1127.
2">is</span> <span data-t="1127.5">enormously</span> <span data-t="1128.6">important</span> <span data-t="1129.3">because</span> <span data-t="1129.6">it</span> <span data-t="1129.8">shows</span> <span data-t="1130.2">that</span> <span data-t="1130.5">by</span> <span data-t="1130.6">the</span> <span data-t="1130.8">Second</span> <span data-t="1131.3">Temple</span> <span data-t="1131.8">period,</span> <span data-t="1132.5">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1133.4">is</span> <span data-t="1133.6">not</span> <span data-t="1133.8">merely</span> <span data-t="1134.2">an</span> <span data-t="1134.
5">obscure</span> <span data-t="1135.2">term</span> <span data-t="1135.5">marooned</span> <span data-t="1136.3">in</span> <span data-t="1136.6">Isaiah.</span> <span data-t="1137.6">She</span> <span data-t="1137.9">is</span> <span data-t="1138.1">still</span> <span data-t="1138.5">an</span> <span data-t="1138.7">active</span> <span data-t="1139.2">presence</span> <span data-t="1139.6">in</span> <span data-t="1139.8">Jewish</span> <span data-t="1140.4">demonological</span> <span data-t="1141.4">imagination.</span> <span data-t="1142.8">Her</span> <span data-t="1143.
1">name</span> <span data-t="1143.8">still</span> <span data-t="1144.3">has</span> <span data-t="1144.6">force.</span> <span data-t="1145.6">She</span> <span data-t="1145.9">still</span> <span data-t="1146.2">belongs</span> <span data-t="1146.8">among</span> <span data-t="1147.1">the</span> <span data-t="1147.3">hostile</span> <span data-t="1147.8">beings</span> <span data-t="1148.2">against</span> <span data-t="1148.6">which</span> <span data-t="1148.9">the</span> <span data-t="1149.1">righteous</span> <span data-t="1149.7">community</span> <span data-t="1150.
3">seeks</span> <span data-t="1150.9">protection.</span> <span data-t="1151.9">That</span> <span data-t="1152.2">continuity</span> <span data-t="1153.4">is</span> <span data-t="1153.5">one</span> <span data-t="1153.8">of</span> <span data-t="1153.8">the</span> <span data-t="1154.0">reasons</span> <span data-t="1154.6">she</span> <span data-t="1154.8">cannot</span> <span data-t="1155.3">simply</span> <span data-t="1155.8">be</span> <span data-t="1156.0">dismissed</span> <span data-t="1157.0">as</span> <span data-t="1157.3">a</span> <span data-t="1157.5">late</span> <span data-t="1157.
9">medieval</span> <span data-t="1158.7">invention</span> <span data-t="1159.5">or</span> <span data-t="1159.8">a</span> <span data-t="1160.0">bit</span> <span data-t="1160.2">of</span> <span data-t="1160.4">decorative</span> <span data-t="1161.0">folklore.</span> <span data-t="1162.6">The</span> <span data-t="1162.9">evidence</span> <span data-t="1163.4">is</span> <span data-t="1163.7">thinner</span> <span data-t="1164.2">than</span> <span data-t="1164.5">modern</span> <span data-t="1165.0">people</span> <span data-t="1165.3">often</span> <span data-t="1165.
8">imagine,</span> <span data-t="1166.6">but</span> <span data-t="1166.8">it</span> <span data-t="1167.0">is</span> <span data-t="1167.3">substantial</span> <span data-t="1168.1">enough</span> <span data-t="1168.5">to</span> <span data-t="1168.7">show</span> <span data-t="1169.0">that</span> <span data-t="1169.3">the</span> <span data-t="1169.5">name</span> <span data-t="1170.0">endured</span> <span data-t="1171.0">and</span> <span data-t="1171.4">remained</span> <span data-t="1172.3">potent.</span> <span data-t="1174.0">Now</span> <span data-t="1174.6">let</span> <span data-t="1174.
9">us</span> <span data-t="1175.1">talk</span> <span data-t="1175.6">about</span> <span data-t="1175.9">translation,</span> <span data-t="1177.2">because</span> <span data-t="1177.5">this</span> <span data-t="1177.8">is</span> <span data-t="1178.2">where</span> <span data-t="1178.5">names</span> <span data-t="1179.1">begin</span> <span data-t="1179.7">to</span> <span data-t="1180.0">travel</span> <span data-t="1180.6">and</span> <span data-t="1181.0">in</span> <span data-t="1181.3">traveling</span> <span data-t="1182.2">begin</span> <span data-t="1182.8">to</span> <span data-t="1183.1">change.
</span> <span data-t="1184.2">The</span> <span data-t="1184.5">dictionary</span> <span data-t="1185.3">notes</span> <span data-t="1185.7">that</span> <span data-t="1185.8">the</span> <span data-t="1186.0">ancient</span> <span data-t="1186.5">versions</span> <span data-t="1186.8">of</span> <span data-t="1187.0">Isaiah</span> <span data-t="1188.0">do</span> <span data-t="1188.3">not</span> <span data-t="1188.6">all</span> <span data-t="1188.8">handle</span> <span data-t="1189.2">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1189.8">in</span> <span data-t="1190.0">the</span> <span data-t="1190.
2">same</span> <span data-t="1190.7">way.</span> <span data-t="1191.1">The</span> <span data-t="1191.4">Septuagint</span> <span data-t="1192.6">gives</span> <span data-t="1193.0">one</span> <span data-t="1193.1">rendering,</span> <span data-t="1193.9">Aquila</span> <span data-t="1194.9">more</span> <span data-t="1195.0">or</span> <span data-t="1195.2">less</span> <span data-t="1195.5">transliterates</span> <span data-t="1196.4">the</span> <span data-t="1196.6">name,</span> <span data-t="1197.0">while</span> <span data-t="1197.4">Semachus</span> <span data-t="1198.
2">and</span> <span data-t="1198.4">Jerome</span> <span data-t="1198.9">use</span> <span data-t="1199.1">Lamia.</span> <span data-t="1200.6">Jerome</span> <span data-t="1201.4">even</span> <span data-t="1201.7">comments</span> <span data-t="1202.4">Lamia,</span> <span data-t="1203.6">who</span> <span data-t="1203.8">is</span> <span data-t="1204.0">called</span> <span data-t="1204.4">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1205.2">in</span> <span data-t="1205.4">Hebrew.</span> <span data-t="1206.9">The</span> <span data-t="1207.2">dictionary</span> <span data-t="1208.1">takes</span> <span data-t="1208.
5">these</span> <span data-t="1208.7">renderings</span> <span data-t="1209.4">as</span> <span data-t="1209.6">another</span> <span data-t="1210.0">sign</span> <span data-t="1210.2">of</span> <span data-t="1210.4">Lilith's</span> <span data-t="1211.3">ancient</span> <span data-t="1211.7">connection</span> <span data-t="1212.2">to</span> <span data-t="1212.4">Lamashtu,</span> <span data-t="1213.8">since</span> <span data-t="1214.1">the</span> <span data-t="1214.2">Greek</span> <span data-t="1214.6">and</span> <span data-t="1214.8">Latin</span> <span data-t="1215.
3">translators</span> <span data-t="1216.0">are</span> <span data-t="1216.2">trying</span> <span data-t="1216.6">to</span> <span data-t="1216.9">map</span> <span data-t="1217.4">a</span> <span data-t="1217.6">difficult</span> <span data-t="1218.2">Hebrew</span> <span data-t="1218.9">demon</span> <span data-t="1219.5">term</span> <span data-t="1220.2">onto</span> <span data-t="1220.8">figures</span> <span data-t="1221.4">already</span> <span data-t="1221.8">known</span> <span data-t="1222.2">in</span> <span data-t="1222.5">their</span> <span data-t="1222.7">own</span> <span data-t="1223.
1">cultural</span> <span data-t="1223.9">world.</span> <span data-t="1224.8">That</span> <span data-t="1225.4">point</span> <span data-t="1225.8">matters</span> <span data-t="1226.6">more</span> <span data-t="1227.0">than</span> <span data-t="1227.3">it</span> <span data-t="1227.5">may</span> <span data-t="1227.8">first</span> <span data-t="1228.2">appear.</span> <span data-t="1229.8">Translation</span> <span data-t="1231.0">is</span> <span data-t="1231.4">not</span> <span data-t="1231.7">neutral.</span> <span data-t="1232.8">The</span> <span data-t="1233.1">moment</span> <span data-t="1233.
4">a</span> <span data-t="1233.6">translator</span> <span data-t="1234.2">chooses</span> <span data-t="1234.6">Lamia</span> <span data-t="1235.4">instead</span> <span data-t="1235.8">of</span> <span data-t="1236.0">simply</span> <span data-t="1236.4">reproducing</span> <span data-t="1237.1">Lilith,</span> <span data-t="1238.2">that</span> <span data-t="1238.6">translator</span> <span data-t="1239.4">is</span> <span data-t="1239.6">already</span> <span data-t="1240.1">interpreting</span> <span data-t="1241.0">the</span> <span data-t="1241.2">figure.</span> <span data-t="1242.
1">He</span> <span data-t="1242.3">is</span> <span data-t="1242.6">saying,</span> <span data-t="1243.1">in</span> <span data-t="1243.4">effect,</span> <span data-t="1244.2">the</span> <span data-t="1244.4">closest</span> <span data-t="1245.0">thing</span> <span data-t="1245.3">my</span> <span data-t="1245.4">audience</span> <span data-t="1246.1">knows</span> <span data-t="1246.4">to</span> <span data-t="1246.7">this</span> <span data-t="1247.0">being</span> <span data-t="1247.6">is</span> <span data-t="1247.9">that</span> <span data-t="1248.2">one.</span> <span data-t="1249.
0">That</span> <span data-t="1249.4">is</span> <span data-t="1249.7">useful.</span> <span data-t="1250.4">It</span> <span data-t="1250.6">tells</span> <span data-t="1251.0">us</span> <span data-t="1251.3">how</span> <span data-t="1251.4">the</span> <span data-t="1251.7">figure</span> <span data-t="1252.1">was</span> <span data-t="1252.3">being</span> <span data-t="1252.7">understood.</span> <span data-t="1253.8">But</span> <span data-t="1254.0">it</span> <span data-t="1254.2">does</span> <span data-t="1254.4">not</span> <span data-t="1254.6">mean</span> <span data-t="1254.
8">that</span> <span data-t="1255.0">Lilith,</span> <span data-t="1255.9">Lamia,</span> <span data-t="1256.6">and</span> <span data-t="1256.8">Lamashtu</span> <span data-t="1258.2">are</span> <span data-t="1258.4">perfectly</span> <span data-t="1259.0">identical</span> <span data-t="1259.7">beings</span> <span data-t="1260.2">with</span> <span data-t="1260.5">one</span> <span data-t="1260.8">tidy</span> <span data-t="1261.4">infernal</span> <span data-t="1262.3">identity</span> <span data-t="1263.0">card.</span> <span data-t="1263.8">It</span> <span data-t="1264.
1">means</span> <span data-t="1264.6">the</span> <span data-t="1264.8">traditions</span> <span data-t="1265.5">overlap,</span> <span data-t="1266.5">assimilate</span> <span data-t="1267.3">and</span> <span data-t="1267.5">illuminate</span> <span data-t="1268.4">one</span> <span data-t="1268.6">another.</span> <span data-t="1269.4">They</span> <span data-t="1270.0">form</span> <span data-t="1270.5">a</span> <span data-t="1270.8">family</span> <span data-t="1271.4">resemblance,</span> <span data-t="1272.6">not</span> <span data-t="1273.0">a</span> <span data-t="1273.
2">simplistic</span> <span data-t="1274.1">one</span> <span data-t="1274.4">to</span> <span data-t="1274.7">one</span> <span data-t="1275.0">equivalence.</span> <span data-t="1276.5">That</span> <span data-t="1276.8">is</span> <span data-t="1277.0">why</span> <span data-t="1277.4">I</span> <span data-t="1277.7">keep</span> <span data-t="1278.1">insisting</span> <span data-t="1278.8">on</span> <span data-t="1279.0">the</span> <span data-t="1279.2">principle</span> <span data-t="1279.8">of</span> <span data-t="1280.1">data</span> <span data-t="1280.6">before</span> <span data-t="1281.
2">doctrine.</span> <span data-t="1282.2">Once</span> <span data-t="1282.6">we</span> <span data-t="1282.8">see</span> <span data-t="1283.0">Mesopotamian</span> <span data-t="1284.2">wind</span> <span data-t="1284.6">demon</span> <span data-t="1285.2">material,</span> <span data-t="1285.9">the</span> <span data-t="1286.2">Hebrew</span> <span data-t="1286.8">term</span> <span data-t="1287.0">in</span> <span data-t="1287.3">Isaiah,</span> <span data-t="1288.2">the</span> <span data-t="1288.3">elusive</span> <span data-t="1289.0">Psalm</span> <span data-t="1289.
4">ninety</span> <span data-t="1289.8">one</span> <span data-t="1290.2">tradition,</span> <span data-t="1290.8">the</span> <span data-t="1291.0">Second</span> <span data-t="1291.4">Temple</span> <span data-t="1291.9">naming</span> <span data-t="1292.3">in</span> <span data-t="1292.5">four</span> <span data-t="1293.0">Q</span> <span data-t="1293.4">five</span> <span data-t="1293.8">one</span> <span data-t="1294.1">zero</span> <span data-t="1294.5">to</span> <span data-t="1294.7">five</span> <span data-t="1295.1">one,</span> <span data-t="1296.1">and</span> <span data-t="1296.
2">the</span> <span data-t="1296.5">Greek</span> <span data-t="1296.9">and</span> <span data-t="1297.0">Latin</span> <span data-t="1297.6">identifications</span> <span data-t="1298.5">with</span> <span data-t="1298.7">Lamia</span> <span data-t="1299.4">and</span> <span data-t="1299.6">Lamoshtu,</span> <span data-t="1301.0">the</span> <span data-t="1301.4">responsible</span> <span data-t="1302.2">move</span> <span data-t="1302.7">is</span> <span data-t="1303.0">not</span> <span data-t="1303.4">to</span> <span data-t="1303.6">collapse</span> <span data-t="1304.
3">everything</span> <span data-t="1305.2">into</span> <span data-t="1305.5">one</span> <span data-t="1305.8">sentence</span> <span data-t="1306.5">and</span> <span data-t="1306.7">call</span> <span data-t="1307.0">it</span> <span data-t="1307.4">a</span> <span data-t="1307.7">day.</span> <span data-t="1308.5">The</span> <span data-t="1308.8">responsible</span> <span data-t="1309.6">move</span> <span data-t="1309.9">is</span> <span data-t="1310.1">to</span> <span data-t="1310.4">say</span> <span data-t="1310.6">that</span> <span data-t="1310.8">we</span> <span data-t="1311.
0">are</span> <span data-t="1311.2">dealing</span> <span data-t="1311.7">with</span> <span data-t="1311.9">a</span> <span data-t="1312.2">long</span> <span data-t="1312.6">history</span> <span data-t="1313.0">of</span> <span data-t="1313.3">reception,</span> <span data-t="1314.4">adaptation,</span> <span data-t="1315.7">and</span> <span data-t="1316.0">reinterpretation.</span> <span data-t="1317.9">The</span> <span data-t="1318.2">overlap</span> <span data-t="1318.9">is</span> <span data-t="1319.1">real</span> <span data-t="1319.4">and</span> <span data-t="1320.
0">But</span> <span data-t="1320.3">so</span> <span data-t="1320.6">are</span> <span data-t="1320.9">the</span> <span data-t="1321.1">distinctions.</span> <span data-t="1322.6">Now</span> <span data-t="1323.0">of</span> <span data-t="1323.3">course</span> <span data-t="1323.8">for</span> <span data-t="1324.1">most</span> <span data-t="1324.3">modern</span> <span data-t="1324.9">people,</span> <span data-t="1325.4">the</span> <span data-t="1325.8">question</span> <span data-t="1326.2">that</span> <span data-t="1326.4">rises</span> <span data-t="1326.9">above</span> <span data-t="1327.
3">all</span> <span data-t="1327.4">the</span> <span data-t="1327.6">others</span> <span data-t="1328.1">is</span> <span data-t="1328.3">not</span> <span data-t="1328.6">Isaiah</span> <span data-t="1329.5">and</span> <span data-t="1329.8">not</span> <span data-t="1330.1">Acadian.</span> <span data-t="1331.4">It</span> <span data-t="1331.8">is</span> <span data-t="1332.1">this</span> <span data-t="1333.3">was</span> <span data-t="1333.6">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1334.6">Adam's</span> <span data-t="1335.4">first</span> <span data-t="1335.8">wife?</span> <span data-t="1336.
7">And</span> <span data-t="1337.0">the</span> <span data-t="1337.2">answer</span> <span data-t="1337.7">is</span> <span data-t="1337.9">the</span> <span data-t="1338.2">same</span> <span data-t="1338.6">answer</span> <span data-t="1339.2">that</span> <span data-t="1339.5">so</span> <span data-t="1340.0">many</span> <span data-t="1340.4">of</span> <span data-t="1340.7">these</span> <span data-t="1341.0">named</span> <span data-t="1341.6">demon</span> <span data-t="1342.2">episodes</span> <span data-t="1343.3">are</span> <span data-t="1343.6">going</span> <span data-t="1344.
2">to</span> <span data-t="1344.4">require.</span> <span data-t="1345.8">That</span> <span data-t="1346.1">is</span> <span data-t="1346.3">a</span> <span data-t="1346.6">later</span> <span data-t="1347.0">tradition,</span> <span data-t="1347.9">not</span> <span data-t="1348.2">the</span> <span data-t="1348.4">starting</span> <span data-t="1349.1">point.</span> <span data-t="1349.8">In</span> <span data-t="1350.0">my</span> <span data-t="1350.2">previous</span> <span data-t="1350.8">episode</span> <span data-t="1351.3">on</span> <span data-t="1351.5">Lilith,</span> <span data-t="1352.
5">I</span> <span data-t="1352.7">traced</span> <span data-t="1353.3">how</span> <span data-t="1353.5">later</span> <span data-t="1353.8">readers</span> <span data-t="1354.4">looked</span> <span data-t="1354.7">at</span> <span data-t="1354.9">the</span> <span data-t="1355.1">two</span> <span data-t="1355.4">creation</span> <span data-t="1355.9">accounts</span> <span data-t="1356.5">in</span> <span data-t="1356.6">Genesis</span> <span data-t="1357.7">and</span> <span data-t="1358.0">began</span> <span data-t="1358.5">asking</span> <span data-t="1359.0">whether</span> <span data-t="1359.
4">the</span> <span data-t="1359.7">woman</span> <span data-t="1360.1">created</span> <span data-t="1360.6">with</span> <span data-t="1360.9">Adam</span> <span data-t="1361.3">in</span> <span data-t="1361.4">Genesis</span> <span data-t="1362.2">I</span> <span data-t="1362.8">might</span> <span data-t="1363.2">be</span> <span data-t="1363.4">distinct</span> <span data-t="1364.0">from</span> <span data-t="1364.2">Eve</span> <span data-t="1364.6">in</span> <span data-t="1364.9">Genesis</span> <span data-t="1365.6">II.</span> <span data-t="1366.6">From</span> <span data-t="1367.
1">there,</span> <span data-t="1367.7">later</span> <span data-t="1368.1">rabbinic</span> <span data-t="1369.0">tradition</span> <span data-t="1369.4">develops</span> <span data-t="1370.0">the</span> <span data-t="1370.2">now</span> <span data-t="1370.6">famous</span> <span data-t="1371.3">story.</span> <span data-t="1372.2">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1372.9">refuses</span> <span data-t="1373.5">subordination,</span> <span data-t="1374.8">quarrels</span> <span data-t="1375.4">with</span> <span data-t="1375.6">Adam,</span> <span data-t="1376.3">flees,</span> <span data-t="1377.
2">and</span> <span data-t="1377.5">then</span> <span data-t="1377.8">becomes</span> <span data-t="1378.3">associated</span> <span data-t="1379.1">with</span> <span data-t="1379.4">demons</span> <span data-t="1379.9">and</span> <span data-t="1380.2">the</span> <span data-t="1380.5">generation</span> <span data-t="1381.1">of</span> <span data-t="1381.4">demonic</span> <span data-t="1382.2">offspring.</span> <span data-t="1383.4">The</span> <span data-t="1383.8">dictionary</span> <span data-t="1384.7">also</span> <span data-t="1385.0">acknowledges</span> <span data-t="1385.
8">this</span> <span data-t="1386.2">tradition</span> <span data-t="1386.7">quite</span> <span data-t="1387.2">directly.</span> <span data-t="1388.4">It</span> <span data-t="1388.7">says</span> <span data-t="1389.1">that</span> <span data-t="1389.3">it</span> <span data-t="1389.5">was</span> <span data-t="1389.8">well</span> <span data-t="1390.0">known</span> <span data-t="1390.5">that</span> <span data-t="1390.7">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1391.5">was</span> <span data-t="1391.8">said</span> <span data-t="1392.0">to</span> <span data-t="1392.2">be</span> <span data-t="1392.
4">Adam's</span> <span data-t="1393.2">first</span> <span data-t="1393.5">wife,</span> <span data-t="1394.4">that</span> <span data-t="1394.7">she</span> <span data-t="1394.9">flew</span> <span data-t="1395.4">away</span> <span data-t="1395.8">after</span> <span data-t="1396.2">a</span> <span data-t="1396.5">quarrel,</span> <span data-t="1397.4">and</span> <span data-t="1397.6">that</span> <span data-t="1397.9">from</span> <span data-t="1398.2">then</span> <span data-t="1398.6">on</span> <span data-t="1398.9">she</span> <span data-t="1399.1">became</span> <span data-t="1399.
6">a</span> <span data-t="1399.8">danger</span> <span data-t="1400.5">to</span> <span data-t="1400.8">little</span> <span data-t="1401.1">children</span> <span data-t="1401.8">and</span> <span data-t="1402.2">had</span> <span data-t="1402.4">to</span> <span data-t="1402.6">be</span> <span data-t="1402.9">warded</span> <span data-t="1403.5">off</span> <span data-t="1403.8">by</span> <span data-t="1404.1">amulets.</span> <span data-t="1405.5">That</span> <span data-t="1405.8">tradition</span> <span data-t="1406.5">matters.</span> <span data-t="1407.3">It</span> <span data-t="1407.
6">had</span> <span data-t="1407.9">enormous</span> <span data-t="1408.6">cultural</span> <span data-t="1409.4">impact.</span> <span data-t="1410.2">It</span> <span data-t="1410.5">shaped</span> <span data-t="1411.0">later</span> <span data-t="1411.5">Jewish</span> <span data-t="1412.0">folklore,</span> <span data-t="1413.0">Christian</span> <span data-t="1413.6">imagination,</span> <span data-t="1414.8">magical</span> <span data-t="1415.4">traditions,</span> <span data-t="1416.2">and</span> <span data-t="1416.6">eventually</span> <span data-t="1417.4">modern</span> <span data-t="1417.
8">receptions</span> <span data-t="1418.4">of</span> <span data-t="1418.6">Lilith.</span> <span data-t="1419.8">But</span> <span data-t="1420.2">it</span> <span data-t="1420.5">is</span> <span data-t="1420.6">still</span> <span data-t="1421.1">later.</span> <span data-t="1421.9">It</span> <span data-t="1422.2">is</span> <span data-t="1422.5">not</span> <span data-t="1422.7">where</span> <span data-t="1423.0">the</span> <span data-t="1423.2">story</span> <span data-t="1423.6">begins.</span> <span data-t="1424.7">It</span> <span data-t="1425.0">is</span> <span data-t="1425.
2">part</span> <span data-t="1425.4">of</span> <span data-t="1425.7">Lilith's</span> <span data-t="1426.6">afterlife,</span> <span data-t="1427.8">not</span> <span data-t="1428.1">the</span> <span data-t="1428.3">earliest</span> <span data-t="1429.0">recoverable</span> <span data-t="1430.0">stage</span> <span data-t="1430.4">of</span> <span data-t="1430.6">her</span> <span data-t="1431.0">identity.</span> <span data-t="1432.1">And</span> <span data-t="1432.3">I</span> <span data-t="1432.6">think</span> <span data-t="1432.9">one</span> <span data-t="1433.1">of</span> <span data-t="1433.
2">the</span> <span data-t="1433.4">reasons</span> <span data-t="1433.8">this</span> <span data-t="1434.1">legend</span> <span data-t="1434.6">became</span> <span data-t="1435.1">so</span> <span data-t="1435.4">successful</span> <span data-t="1436.3">is</span> <span data-t="1436.6">that</span> <span data-t="1437.0">it</span> <span data-t="1437.2">domesticates</span> <span data-t="1438.2">and</span> <span data-t="1438.5">personalizes</span> <span data-t="1439.4">what</span> <span data-t="1439.8">had</span> <span data-t="1440.0">previously</span> <span data-t="1440.
9">been</span> <span data-t="1441.2">more</span> <span data-t="1441.5">atmospheric</span> <span data-t="1442.8">and</span> <span data-t="1443.1">symbolic.</span> <span data-t="1444.6">Instead</span> <span data-t="1445.2">of</span> <span data-t="1445.4">a</span> <span data-t="1445.6">figure</span> <span data-t="1445.9">of</span> <span data-t="1446.2">wilderness,</span> <span data-t="1447.0">wind</span> <span data-t="1447.5">and</span> <span data-t="1447.8">intrusion,</span> <span data-t="1448.7">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1449.5">becomes</span> <span data-t="1449.
9">a</span> <span data-t="1450.2">character</span> <span data-t="1450.8">embedded</span> <span data-t="1451.4">in</span> <span data-t="1451.6">the</span> <span data-t="1451.9">primal</span> <span data-t="1452.6">human</span> <span data-t="1453.0">drama.</span> <span data-t="1453.7">She</span> <span data-t="1453.9">becomes</span> <span data-t="1454.6">anti</span> <span data-t="1455.2">Eve.</span> <span data-t="1456.1">She</span> <span data-t="1456.4">becomes</span> <span data-t="1456.9">the</span> <span data-t="1457.1">woman</span> <span data-t="1457.6">who</span> <span data-t="1457.
9">would</span> <span data-t="1458.2">not</span> <span data-t="1458.4">submit</span> <span data-t="1459.1">the</span> <span data-t="1459.4">one</span> <span data-t="1459.6">who</span> <span data-t="1459.8">departed,</span> <span data-t="1460.6">the</span> <span data-t="1460.9">one</span> <span data-t="1461.1">who</span> <span data-t="1461.3">became</span> <span data-t="1461.6">the</span> <span data-t="1461.8">dark</span> <span data-t="1462.2">mirror</span> <span data-t="1462.8">to</span> <span data-t="1463.0">order</span> <span data-t="1463.5">domesticity.</span> <span data-t="1465.
0">That</span> <span data-t="1465.2">is</span> <span data-t="1465.5">potent</span> <span data-t="1466.1">mythology.</span> <span data-t="1467.2">It</span> <span data-t="1467.5">is</span> <span data-t="1467.8">easy</span> <span data-t="1468.2">to</span> <span data-t="1468.6">see</span> <span data-t="1468.8">why</span> <span data-t="1469.1">it</span> <span data-t="1469.4">lasted.</span> <span data-t="1470.4">But</span> <span data-t="1470.6">it</span> <span data-t="1470.9">is</span> <span data-t="1471.0">still</span> <span data-t="1471.4">mythology</span> <span data-t="1472.
2">growing</span> <span data-t="1472.9">out</span> <span data-t="1473.0">of</span> <span data-t="1473.2">earlier</span> <span data-t="1474.0">material,</span> <span data-t="1475.0">not</span> <span data-t="1475.2">a</span> <span data-t="1475.4">piece</span> <span data-t="1475.8">of</span> <span data-t="1476.1">primeval</span> <span data-t="1476.8">biblical</span> <span data-t="1477.5">biography</span> <span data-t="1478.6">that</span> <span data-t="1479.0">had</span> <span data-t="1479.3">merely</span> <span data-t="1479.8">been</span> <span data-t="1480.1">waiting</span> <span data-t="1480.
6">for</span> <span data-t="1480.8">us</span> <span data-t="1481.0">to</span> <span data-t="1481.2">notice</span> <span data-t="1481.8">it.</span> <span data-t="1482.3">And</span> <span data-t="1482.6">this</span> <span data-t="1482.9">is</span> <span data-t="1483.1">another</span> <span data-t="1483.7">place</span> <span data-t="1484.0">where</span> <span data-t="1484.3">poor</span> <span data-t="1484.9">method</span> <span data-t="1485.5">produces</span> <span data-t="1486.3">bad</span> <span data-t="1486.8">history.</span> <span data-t="1487.8">People</span> <span data-t="1488.
3">take</span> <span data-t="1488.7">the</span> <span data-t="1489.0">most</span> <span data-t="1489.2">dramatic,</span> <span data-t="1490.1">late</span> <span data-t="1490.6">form</span> <span data-t="1490.8">of</span> <span data-t="1491.0">a</span> <span data-t="1491.3">tradition</span> <span data-t="1492.0">and</span> <span data-t="1492.2">then</span> <span data-t="1492.5">read</span> <span data-t="1492.9">it</span> <span data-t="1493.1">backward</span> <span data-t="1493.8">as</span> <span data-t="1494.1">if</span> <span data-t="1494.4">it</span> <span data-t="1494.
6">had</span> <span data-t="1494.8">always</span> <span data-t="1495.4">been</span> <span data-t="1495.7">present.</span> <span data-t="1496.6">Once</span> <span data-t="1497.2">that</span> <span data-t="1497.4">happens,</span> <span data-t="1498.2">everything</span> <span data-t="1498.9">gets</span> <span data-t="1499.3">distorted.</span> <span data-t="1500.3">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1501.1">did</span> <span data-t="1501.3">not</span> <span data-t="1501.5">begin</span> <span data-t="1501.8">as</span> <span data-t="1502.1">a</span> <span data-t="1502.2">fully</span> <span data-t="1502.
7">formed</span> <span data-t="1503.2">medieval</span> <span data-t="1503.9">demon</span> <span data-t="1504.4">queen.</span> <span data-t="1505.2">She</span> <span data-t="1505.5">emerges</span> <span data-t="1506.2">gradually</span> <span data-t="1506.8">out</span> <span data-t="1507.0">of</span> <span data-t="1507.1">a</span> <span data-t="1507.4">much</span> <span data-t="1507.6">older</span> <span data-t="1508.1">and</span> <span data-t="1508.3">much</span> <span data-t="1508.6">murkier</span> <span data-t="1509.4">world</span> <span data-t="1510.0">of</span> <span data-t="1510.
3">wind,</span> <span data-t="1511.2">intrusion,</span> <span data-t="1512.3">dangerous</span> <span data-t="1513.0">sexuality,</span> <span data-t="1514.2">wilderness</span> <span data-t="1515.0">and</span> <span data-t="1515.3">anti</span> <span data-t="1515.7">domestic</span> <span data-t="1516.4">threat.</span> <span data-t="1517.2">The</span> <span data-t="1517.5">later</span> <span data-t="1518.0">legends</span> <span data-t="1518.6">may</span> <span data-t="1518.9">be</span> <span data-t="1519.1">compelling,</span> <span data-t="1520.1">but</span> <span data-t="1520.
3">they</span> <span data-t="1520.6">do</span> <span data-t="1520.9">not</span> <span data-t="1521.1">erase</span> <span data-t="1521.8">that</span> <span data-t="1522.0">earlier</span> <span data-t="1522.7">complexity.</span> <span data-t="1524.4">Now</span> <span data-t="1524.9">let</span> <span data-t="1525.2">me</span> <span data-t="1525.5">say</span> <span data-t="1525.8">something</span> <span data-t="1526.2">that</span> <span data-t="1526.4">may</span> <span data-t="1526.6">sound</span> <span data-t="1527.0">strange</span> <span data-t="1527.5">at</span> <span data-t="1527.
8">first,</span> <span data-t="1528.3">but</span> <span data-t="1528.6">I</span> <span data-t="1528.8">think</span> <span data-t="1529.0">it</span> <span data-t="1529.2">is</span> <span data-t="1529.4">one</span> <span data-t="1529.6">of</span> <span data-t="1529.8">the</span> <span data-t="1530.0">deepest</span> <span data-t="1530.7">truths</span> <span data-t="1531.4">about</span> <span data-t="1531.8">Lilith.</span> <span data-t="1533.2">Her</span> <span data-t="1533.5">modern</span> <span data-t="1534.2">popularity</span> <span data-t="1535.0">often</span> <span data-t="1535.
5">depends</span> <span data-t="1536.1">on</span> <span data-t="1536.3">her</span> <span data-t="1536.6">ancient</span> <span data-t="1537.0">ambiguity.</span> <span data-t="1538.6">She</span> <span data-t="1539.0">is</span> <span data-t="1539.2">old</span> <span data-t="1539.5">enough</span> <span data-t="1539.8">to</span> <span data-t="1540.1">feel</span> <span data-t="1540.5">powerful,</span> <span data-t="1541.4">she</span> <span data-t="1541.7">is</span> <span data-t="1541.9">obscure</span> <span data-t="1542.5">enough</span> <span data-t="1542.8">to</span> <span data-t="1543.
0">feel</span> <span data-t="1543.3">mysterious,</span> <span data-t="1544.3">she</span> <span data-t="1544.6">is</span> <span data-t="1544.8">fragmentary</span> <span data-t="1545.6">enough</span> <span data-t="1546.1">to</span> <span data-t="1546.2">be</span> <span data-t="1546.5">reinvented,</span> <span data-t="1547.7">and</span> <span data-t="1547.9">she</span> <span data-t="1548.2">is</span> <span data-t="1548.3">dangerous</span> <span data-t="1549.0">enough</span> <span data-t="1549.3">to</span> <span data-t="1549.4">be</span> <span data-t="1549.8">marketed.</span> <span data-t="1550.
8">That</span> <span data-t="1551.0">is</span> <span data-t="1551.3">a</span> <span data-t="1551.4">nearly</span> <span data-t="1552.1">perfect</span> <span data-t="1552.6">recipe</span> <span data-t="1553.4">for</span> <span data-t="1553.7">cultural</span> <span data-t="1554.4">immortality.</span> <span data-t="1555.9">Modern</span> <span data-t="1556.6">people</span> <span data-t="1556.9">can</span> <span data-t="1557.2">project</span> <span data-t="1557.7">almost</span> <span data-t="1558.2">anything</span> <span data-t="1558.8">onto</span> <span data-t="1559.
4">her</span> <span data-t="1559.9">because</span> <span data-t="1560.2">the</span> <span data-t="1560.5">record,</span> <span data-t="1561.1">while</span> <span data-t="1561.6">real,</span> <span data-t="1562.3">is</span> <span data-t="1562.6">not</span> <span data-t="1562.8">so</span> <span data-t="1563.0">exhaustive</span> <span data-t="1563.8">that</span> <span data-t="1563.9">it</span> <span data-t="1564.1">closes</span> <span data-t="1564.6">off</span> <span data-t="1565.0">reinterpretation.</span> <span data-t="1566.8">In</span> <span data-t="1567.1">fact,</span> <span data-t="1567.
8">one</span> <span data-t="1568.0">reason</span> <span data-t="1568.5">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1569.2">keeps</span> <span data-t="1569.5">returning</span> <span data-t="1570.4">is</span> <span data-t="1570.7">because</span> <span data-t="1571.0">each</span> <span data-t="1571.6">era</span> <span data-t="1572.1">is</span> <span data-t="1572.2">able</span> <span data-t="1572.6">to</span> <span data-t="1572.8">pull</span> <span data-t="1573.3">her</span> <span data-t="1573.5">into</span> <span data-t="1573.8">its</span> <span data-t="1574.1">own</span> <span data-t="1574.
5">anxieties</span> <span data-t="1575.4">and</span> <span data-t="1575.7">aspirations.</span> <span data-t="1577.4">That</span> <span data-t="1577.8">is</span> <span data-t="1578.1">not</span> <span data-t="1578.3">unique</span> <span data-t="1578.7">to</span> <span data-t="1579.0">Lilith,</span> <span data-t="1580.1">but</span> <span data-t="1580.3">it</span> <span data-t="1580.6">is</span> <span data-t="1580.8">especially</span> <span data-t="1581.4">pronounced</span> <span data-t="1582.0">in</span> <span data-t="1582.2">her</span> <span data-t="1582.5">case.</span> <span data-t="1583.
0">She</span> <span data-t="1583.3">becomes</span> <span data-t="1583.8">a</span> <span data-t="1584.0">site</span> <span data-t="1584.3">of</span> <span data-t="1584.6">projection.</span> <span data-t="1585.9">For</span> <span data-t="1586.2">some</span> <span data-t="1586.6">she</span> <span data-t="1586.9">is</span> <span data-t="1587.0">a</span> <span data-t="1587.4">demon.</span> <span data-t="1588.2">For</span> <span data-t="1588.5">others</span> <span data-t="1589.0">she</span> <span data-t="1589.2">is</span> <span data-t="1589.4">a</span> <span data-t="1589.6">goddess.
</span> <span data-t="1590.6">For</span> <span data-t="1590.9">others</span> <span data-t="1591.4">she</span> <span data-t="1591.6">is</span> <span data-t="1591.8">a</span> <span data-t="1592.0">symbol</span> <span data-t="1592.4">of</span> <span data-t="1592.6">sexual</span> <span data-t="1593.3">danger.</span> <span data-t="1594.2">For</span> <span data-t="1594.4">others</span> <span data-t="1595.0">she</span> <span data-t="1595.2">is</span> <span data-t="1595.4">a</span> <span data-t="1595.5">symbol</span> <span data-t="1596.0">of</span> <span data-t="1596.
3">sexual</span> <span data-t="1597.0">liberation.</span> <span data-t="1598.2">For</span> <span data-t="1598.5">others</span> <span data-t="1599.0">she</span> <span data-t="1599.2">is</span> <span data-t="1599.4">a</span> <span data-t="1599.6">folkloric</span> <span data-t="1600.6">child</span> <span data-t="1601.0">snatcher.</span> <span data-t="1602.0">For</span> <span data-t="1602.2">others</span> <span data-t="1602.8">she</span> <span data-t="1603.0">is</span> <span data-t="1603.2">a</span> <span data-t="1603.4">literary</span> <span data-t="1604.2">archetype.</span> <span data-t="1605.
4">And</span> <span data-t="1605.8">because</span> <span data-t="1606.2">the</span> <span data-t="1606.4">name</span> <span data-t="1606.8">carries</span> <span data-t="1607.4">real</span> <span data-t="1607.7">antiquity,</span> <span data-t="1608.9">all</span> <span data-t="1609.1">of</span> <span data-t="1609.4">those</span> <span data-t="1609.7">projections</span> <span data-t="1610.6">inherit</span> <span data-t="1611.4">a</span> <span data-t="1611.6">kind</span> <span data-t="1611.8">of</span> <span data-t="1612.1">borrowed</span> <span data-t="1612.
8">authority,</span> <span data-t="1613.8">whether</span> <span data-t="1614.2">they</span> <span data-t="1614.5">deserve</span> <span data-t="1615.0">it</span> <span data-t="1615.3">or</span> <span data-t="1615.6">not.</span> <span data-t="1616.3">This</span> <span data-t="1616.6">is</span> <span data-t="1616.9">one</span> <span data-t="1617.0">reason</span> <span data-t="1617.4">I</span> <span data-t="1617.6">think</span> <span data-t="1617.8">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1618.6">is</span> <span data-t="1618.8">the</span> <span data-t="1619.0">perfect</span> <span data-t="1619.
5">first</span> <span data-t="1619.8">name</span> <span data-t="1620.3">demon</span> <span data-t="1621.1">for</span> <span data-t="1621.4">the</span> <span data-t="1621.6">series.</span> <span data-t="1622.6">She</span> <span data-t="1623.0">shows</span> <span data-t="1623.4">exactly</span> <span data-t="1623.9">why</span> <span data-t="1624.3">names</span> <span data-t="1624.9">matter</span> <span data-t="1625.4">and</span> <span data-t="1625.7">exactly</span> <span data-t="1626.3">why</span> <span data-t="1626.7">names</span> <span data-t="1627.3">can</span> <span data-t="1627.6">mislead.
</span> <span data-t="1628.7">Her</span> <span data-t="1629.0">name</span> <span data-t="1629.4">preserves</span> <span data-t="1630.1">a</span> <span data-t="1630.4">real</span> <span data-t="1630.7">historical</span> <span data-t="1631.5">lineage.</span> <span data-t="1632.6">It</span> <span data-t="1632.9">connects</span> <span data-t="1633.4">us</span> <span data-t="1633.7">to</span> <span data-t="1633.8">the</span> <span data-t="1634.1">ancient</span> <span data-t="1634.6">Near</span> <span data-t="1635.1">East,</span> <span data-t="1635.8">to</span> <span data-t="1636.
0">biblical</span> <span data-t="1636.7">tradition,</span> <span data-t="1637.3">to</span> <span data-t="1637.5">Second</span> <span data-t="1638.1">Temple,</span> <span data-t="1639.0">demonology,</span> <span data-t="1640.4">to</span> <span data-t="1640.7">translation</span> <span data-t="1641.5">history,</span> <span data-t="1642.3">to</span> <span data-t="1642.6">rabbinic</span> <span data-t="1643.4">legend,</span> <span data-t="1644.2">and</span> <span data-t="1644.5">to</span> <span data-t="1644.7">medieval</span> <span data-t="1645.4">and</span> <span data-t="1645.
6">modern</span> <span data-t="1646.1">folklore.</span> <span data-t="1647.4">But</span> <span data-t="1647.8">that</span> <span data-t="1648.0">same</span> <span data-t="1648.4">richness</span> <span data-t="1649.1">also</span> <span data-t="1649.4">means</span> <span data-t="1649.8">that</span> <span data-t="1650.0">the</span> <span data-t="1650.2">name</span> <span data-t="1650.6">can</span> <span data-t="1650.8">become</span> <span data-t="1651.3">a</span> <span data-t="1651.5">magnet</span> <span data-t="1652.2">for</span> <span data-t="1652.5">bad</span> <span data-t="1653.
0">history,</span> <span data-t="1653.8">inflated</span> <span data-t="1654.6">confidence,</span> <span data-t="1655.6">and</span> <span data-t="1655.9">all</span> <span data-t="1656.2">sorts</span> <span data-t="1656.6">of</span> <span data-t="1656.8">theological</span> <span data-t="1657.8">improvisation.</span> <span data-t="1659.4">Now</span> <span data-t="1659.8">at</span> <span data-t="1660.2">this</span> <span data-t="1660.5">point</span> <span data-t="1661.0">I</span> <span data-t="1661.3">want</span> <span data-t="1661.5">to</span> <span data-t="1661.8">make</span> <span data-t="1662.
0">a</span> <span data-t="1662.2">distinction</span> <span data-t="1662.9">that</span> <span data-t="1663.0">I</span> <span data-t="1663.3">think</span> <span data-t="1663.5">is</span> <span data-t="1663.8">pastorally</span> <span data-t="1665.1">important.</span> <span data-t="1665.8">There</span> <span data-t="1666.2">are</span> <span data-t="1666.5">usually</span> <span data-t="1667.0">two</span> <span data-t="1667.3">bad</span> <span data-t="1667.7">ways</span> <span data-t="1668.2">people</span> <span data-t="1668.6">respond</span> <span data-t="1669.1">to</span> <span data-t="1669.
4">a</span> <span data-t="1669.5">figure</span> <span data-t="1669.8">like</span> <span data-t="1670.2">Lilith.</span> <span data-t="1671.4">One</span> <span data-t="1671.8">is</span> <span data-t="1672.0">to</span> <span data-t="1672.2">dismiss</span> <span data-t="1672.7">her</span> <span data-t="1673.0">entirely</span> <span data-t="1673.5">as</span> <span data-t="1673.8">just</span> <span data-t="1674.0">folklore</span> <span data-t="1674.9">with</span> <span data-t="1675.0">a</span> <span data-t="1675.3">cool</span> <span data-t="1675.8">name.</span> <span data-t="1676.
6">The</span> <span data-t="1677.0">other</span> <span data-t="1677.2">is</span> <span data-t="1677.4">to</span> <span data-t="1677.5">treat</span> <span data-t="1677.8">the</span> <span data-t="1678.0">name</span> <span data-t="1678.3">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1679.3">as</span> <span data-t="1679.4">though</span> <span data-t="1679.8">it</span> <span data-t="1680.0">explains</span> <span data-t="1680.7">everything.</span> <span data-t="1681.8">A</span> <span data-t="1682.2">nightmare,</span> <span data-t="1683.4">a</span> <span data-t="1683.7">sexual</span> <span data-t="1684.
3">temptation,</span> <span data-t="1685.6">a</span> <span data-t="1685.9">season</span> <span data-t="1686.4">of</span> <span data-t="1686.7">dread,</span> <span data-t="1687.7">a</span> <span data-t="1688.0">strange</span> <span data-t="1688.6">dream,</span> <span data-t="1689.8">a</span> <span data-t="1690.0">perceived</span> <span data-t="1690.7">attack,</span> <span data-t="1691.7">and</span> <span data-t="1691.9">suddenly</span> <span data-t="1692.6">someone</span> <span data-t="1693.1">wants</span> <span data-t="1693.4">to</span> <span data-t="1693.7">stamp</span> <span data-t="1694.
2">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1695.0">on</span> <span data-t="1695.3">it</span> <span data-t="1695.5">with</span> <span data-t="1695.8">complete</span> <span data-t="1696.5">confidence.</span> <span data-t="1698.0">Neither</span> <span data-t="1698.8">posture</span> <span data-t="1699.4">is</span> <span data-t="1699.7">healthy.</span> <span data-t="1700.6">If</span> <span data-t="1701.0">you</span> <span data-t="1701.2">dismiss</span> <span data-t="1701.8">the</span> <span data-t="1702.0">figure</span> <span data-t="1702.5">entirely,</span> <span data-t="1703.5">you</span> <span data-t="1703.
8">miss</span> <span data-t="1704.2">the</span> <span data-t="1704.5">very</span> <span data-t="1704.8">real</span> <span data-t="1705.4">continuity</span> <span data-t="1706.3">of</span> <span data-t="1706.6">ancient</span> <span data-t="1707.2">demonological</span> <span data-t="1708.3">tradition</span> <span data-t="1709.0">and</span> <span data-t="1709.3">the</span> <span data-t="1709.6">way</span> <span data-t="1709.9">certain</span> <span data-t="1710.4">names</span> <span data-t="1711.0">preserve</span> <span data-t="1711.5">patterns</span> <span data-t="1712.
1">of</span> <span data-t="1712.3">threat,</span> <span data-t="1713.1">fear,</span> <span data-t="1713.8">and</span> <span data-t="1714.1">hostile</span> <span data-t="1714.7">symbolism</span> <span data-t="1715.5">across</span> <span data-t="1716.2">centuries.</span> <span data-t="1717.7">But</span> <span data-t="1718.0">if</span> <span data-t="1718.2">you</span> <span data-t="1718.5">treat</span> <span data-t="1718.8">the</span> <span data-t="1719.0">name</span> <span data-t="1719.4">as</span> <span data-t="1719.5">an</span> <span data-t="1719.8">explanatory</span> <span data-t="1720.
6">shortcut,</span> <span data-t="1721.8">you</span> <span data-t="1722.2">replace</span> <span data-t="1722.8">discernment</span> <span data-t="1723.8">with</span> <span data-t="1724.1">labeling.</span> <span data-t="1725.4">And</span> <span data-t="1725.8">a</span> <span data-t="1726.1">label</span> <span data-t="1726.6">can</span> <span data-t="1726.8">become</span> <span data-t="1727.2">a</span> <span data-t="1727.5">false</span> <span data-t="1728.0">comfort.</span> <span data-t="1729.0">It</span> <span data-t="1729.3">can</span> <span data-t="1729.5">make</span> <span data-t="1729.
8">us</span> <span data-t="1729.9">feel</span> <span data-t="1730.2">as</span> <span data-t="1730.5">if</span> <span data-t="1730.6">we</span> <span data-t="1730.9">have</span> <span data-t="1731.1">identified</span> <span data-t="1731.9">and</span> <span data-t="1732.1">therefore</span> <span data-t="1732.7">mastered</span> <span data-t="1733.5">something</span> <span data-t="1734.2">when</span> <span data-t="1734.5">in</span> <span data-t="1734.7">fact</span> <span data-t="1735.0">we</span> <span data-t="1735.3">have</span> <span data-t="1735.5">merely</span> <span data-t="1735.
9">attached</span> <span data-t="1736.5">a</span> <span data-t="1736.7">familiar</span> <span data-t="1737.6">word</span> <span data-t="1738.2">to</span> <span data-t="1738.5">a</span> <span data-t="1738.7">poorly</span> <span data-t="1739.3">understood</span> <span data-t="1740.1">experience.</span> <span data-t="1741.4">That</span> <span data-t="1741.7">is</span> <span data-t="1741.9">one</span> <span data-t="1742.1">of</span> <span data-t="1742.2">the</span> <span data-t="1742.4">deepest</span> <span data-t="1743.0">points</span> <span data-t="1743.6">from</span> <span data-t="1743.
8">the</span> <span data-t="1744.1">introduction</span> <span data-t="1744.8">to</span> <span data-t="1745.0">this</span> <span data-t="1745.4">series.</span> <span data-t="1746.3">Naming</span> <span data-t="1747.2">is</span> <span data-t="1747.5">not</span> <span data-t="1748.1">mastery.</span> <span data-t="1749.2">A</span> <span data-t="1749.5">list</span> <span data-t="1749.8">of</span> <span data-t="1750.1">names</span> <span data-t="1750.6">is</span> <span data-t="1750.8">not</span> <span data-t="1751.0">the</span> <span data-t="1751.1">same</span> <span data-t="1751.
4">thing</span> <span data-t="1751.8">as</span> <span data-t="1752.1">wisdom,</span> <span data-t="1752.9">and</span> <span data-t="1753.2">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1754.1">is</span> <span data-t="1754.2">perhaps</span> <span data-t="1754.9">the</span> <span data-t="1755.2">best</span> <span data-t="1755.4">possible</span> <span data-t="1756.1">proof</span> <span data-t="1756.6">of</span> <span data-t="1756.9">that.</span> <span data-t="1757.4">She</span> <span data-t="1757.8">has</span> <span data-t="1758.1">one</span> <span data-t="1758.2">of</span> <span data-t="1758.
4">the</span> <span data-t="1758.6">most</span> <span data-t="1758.8">recognizable</span> <span data-t="1759.8">names</span> <span data-t="1760.2">in</span> <span data-t="1760.4">all</span> <span data-t="1760.6">of</span> <span data-t="1760.9">demonology,</span> <span data-t="1762.2">yet</span> <span data-t="1762.6">the</span> <span data-t="1762.9">closer</span> <span data-t="1763.7">you</span> <span data-t="1764.0">look,</span> <span data-t="1764.6">the</span> <span data-t="1765.0">more</span> <span data-t="1765.3">you</span> <span data-t="1765.5">realize</span> <span data-t="1766.
2">how</span> <span data-t="1766.5">layered,</span> <span data-t="1767.5">unstable</span> <span data-t="1768.5">and</span> <span data-t="1768.8">historically</span> <span data-t="1769.6">developed</span> <span data-t="1770.3">that</span> <span data-t="1770.6">name</span> <span data-t="1771.0">really</span> <span data-t="1771.4">is.</span> <span data-t="1772.3">So</span> <span data-t="1772.8">how</span> <span data-t="1773.1">should</span> <span data-t="1773.4">we</span> <span data-t="1773.8">think</span> <span data-t="1774.1">about</span> <span data-t="1774.4">her</span> <span data-t="1775.
0">responsibly?</span> <span data-t="1777.3">I</span> <span data-t="1777.6">would</span> <span data-t="1777.9">say</span> <span data-t="1778.2">something</span> <span data-t="1778.9">like</span> <span data-t="1779.2">this</span> <span data-t="1780.3">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1781.2">is</span> <span data-t="1781.4">one</span> <span data-t="1781.5">of</span> <span data-t="1781.6">the</span> <span data-t="1781.8">earliest</span> <span data-t="1782.4">and</span> <span data-t="1782.7">most</span> <span data-t="1783.0">durable</span> <span data-t="1783.6">named</span> <span data-t="1784.
1">demonic</span> <span data-t="1784.8">figures</span> <span data-t="1785.4">preserved</span> <span data-t="1786.1">in</span> <span data-t="1786.2">the</span> <span data-t="1786.4">orbit</span> <span data-t="1786.9">of</span> <span data-t="1787.0">the</span> <span data-t="1787.2">Bible</span> <span data-t="1787.8">and</span> <span data-t="1788.0">the</span> <span data-t="1788.2">ancient</span> <span data-t="1788.8">Near</span> <span data-t="1789.3">East,</span> <span data-t="1790.2">but</span> <span data-t="1790.4">she</span> <span data-t="1790.6">is</span> <span data-t="1790.
9">not</span> <span data-t="1791.1">preserved</span> <span data-t="1791.8">in</span> <span data-t="1791.9">a</span> <span data-t="1792.1">single</span> <span data-t="1792.6">stable</span> <span data-t="1793.3">form.</span> <span data-t="1794.2">Her</span> <span data-t="1794.6">name</span> <span data-t="1795.0">in</span> <span data-t="1795.2">Hebrew</span> <span data-t="1796.0">is</span> <span data-t="1796.3">best</span> <span data-t="1796.6">understood</span> <span data-t="1797.0">as</span> <span data-t="1797.2">an</span> <span data-t="1797.4">Akkadian</span> <span data-t="1798.
2">loan</span> <span data-t="1798.9">rather</span> <span data-t="1799.4">than</span> <span data-t="1799.5">a</span> <span data-t="1799.8">purely</span> <span data-t="1800.2">native</span> <span data-t="1800.6">Hebrew</span> <span data-t="1801.4">formation.</span> <span data-t="1802.2">Her</span> <span data-t="1802.5">deeper</span> <span data-t="1803.0">background</span> <span data-t="1803.5">lies</span> <span data-t="1803.8">in</span> <span data-t="1803.9">Mesopotamian</span> <span data-t="1805.1">material</span> <span data-t="1805.8">associated</span> <span data-t="1806.
6">with</span> <span data-t="1806.9">stormy</span> <span data-t="1807.4">winds</span> <span data-t="1808.1">and</span> <span data-t="1808.3">dangerous</span> <span data-t="1809.0">female</span> <span data-t="1809.4">spirits</span> <span data-t="1810.2">whose</span> <span data-t="1810.6">sexuality</span> <span data-t="1811.4">is</span> <span data-t="1811.6">intrusive</span> <span data-t="1812.6">and</span> <span data-t="1812.8">irregular.</span> <span data-t="1814.5">Her</span> <span data-t="1815.0">explicit</span> <span data-t="1815.8">Hebrew</span> <span data-t="1816.
5">Bible</span> <span data-t="1816.9">appearance</span> <span data-t="1817.4">is</span> <span data-t="1817.6">in</span> <span data-t="1817.8">Isaiah</span> <span data-t="1818.5">thirty</span> <span data-t="1818.9">four</span> <span data-t="1819.4">fourteen,</span> <span data-t="1820.3">where</span> <span data-t="1820.6">she</span> <span data-t="1820.9">belongs</span> <span data-t="1821.4">to</span> <span data-t="1821.5">the</span> <span data-t="1821.7">ruined</span> <span data-t="1822.2">wilderness</span> <span data-t="1822.9">of</span> <span data-t="1823.1">divine</span> <span data-t="1823.
5">judgment.</span> <span data-t="1824.8">Her</span> <span data-t="1825.1">wider</span> <span data-t="1825.8">biblical</span> <span data-t="1826.4">adjacent</span> <span data-t="1827.2">tradition</span> <span data-t="1828.0">includes</span> <span data-t="1828.6">the</span> <span data-t="1828.9">elusive</span> <span data-t="1829.6">field</span> <span data-t="1830.0">around</span> <span data-t="1830.4">Psalm</span> <span data-t="1831.0">ninety</span> <span data-t="1831.4">one</span> <span data-t="1831.9">and</span> <span data-t="1832.2">the</span> <span data-t="1832.
4">later</span> <span data-t="1833.0">identification</span> <span data-t="1833.9">of</span> <span data-t="1834.1">the</span> <span data-t="1834.3">flying</span> <span data-t="1835.0">arrow</span> <span data-t="1835.5">with</span> <span data-t="1835.8">Lilith.</span> <span data-t="1837.1">By</span> <span data-t="1837.4">the</span> <span data-t="1837.7">Second</span> <span data-t="1838.2">Temple</span> <span data-t="1838.8">period,</span> <span data-t="1839.5">she</span> <span data-t="1839.8">is</span> <span data-t="1840.0">named</span> <span data-t="1840.4">directly</span> <span data-t="1841.
0">among</span> <span data-t="1841.4">destructive</span> <span data-t="1842.2">spirits</span> <span data-t="1842.9">in</span> <span data-t="1843.2">four</span> <span data-t="1843.9">Q</span> <span data-t="1844.3">five</span> <span data-t="1844.6">one</span> <span data-t="1845.0">zero</span> <span data-t="1845.4">to</span> <span data-t="1845.6">five</span> <span data-t="1846.0">one.</span> <span data-t="1847.2">Later,</span> <span data-t="1848.0">Jewish,</span> <span data-t="1848.6">Greek,</span> <span data-t="1849.0">and</span> <span data-t="1849.2">Latin</span> <span data-t="1849.
8">traditions</span> <span data-t="1850.5">expand</span> <span data-t="1851.2">and</span> <span data-t="1851.5">reshape</span> <span data-t="1852.2">her</span> <span data-t="1852.6">dramatically,</span> <span data-t="1853.8">eventually</span> <span data-t="1854.6">giving</span> <span data-t="1855.0">us</span> <span data-t="1855.3">lamia,</span> <span data-t="1856.4">the</span> <span data-t="1856.6">Adam</span> <span data-t="1857.2">story,</span> <span data-t="1858.0">the</span> <span data-t="1858.2">child</span> <span data-t="1858.7">killing</span> <span data-t="1859.
2">traditions,</span> <span data-t="1859.8">the</span> <span data-t="1860.1">amulets,</span> <span data-t="1861.2">and</span> <span data-t="1861.5">much</span> <span data-t="1861.8">else</span> <span data-t="1862.4">besides.</span> <span data-t="1863.8">That</span> <span data-t="1864.2">is</span> <span data-t="1864.5">not</span> <span data-t="1864.8">a</span> <span data-t="1865.0">neat</span> <span data-t="1865.7">answer,</span> <span data-t="1866.6">but</span> <span data-t="1866.9">it</span> <span data-t="1867.2">is</span> <span data-t="1867.4">the</span> <span data-t="1867.
8">right</span> <span data-t="1868.1">kind</span> <span data-t="1868.4">of</span> <span data-t="1868.7">answer.</span> <span data-t="1869.4">It</span> <span data-t="1869.8">respects</span> <span data-t="1870.4">the</span> <span data-t="1870.6">evidence</span> <span data-t="1871.2">without</span> <span data-t="1871.7">overclaiming.</span> <span data-t="1873.0">It</span> <span data-t="1873.3">lets</span> <span data-t="1873.7">the</span> <span data-t="1873.9">name</span> <span data-t="1874.3">remain</span> <span data-t="1875.0">old</span> <span data-t="1875.4">and</span> <span data-t="1875.
7">dangerous</span> <span data-t="1876.6">without</span> <span data-t="1877.3">pretending</span> <span data-t="1877.9">the</span> <span data-t="1878.2">record</span> <span data-t="1878.6">is</span> <span data-t="1878.8">simpler</span> <span data-t="1879.4">than</span> <span data-t="1879.6">it</span> <span data-t="1879.9">is.</span> <span data-t="1880.5">And</span> <span data-t="1880.7">spiritually,</span> <span data-t="1881.8">I</span> <span data-t="1882.0">think</span> <span data-t="1882.2">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1883.1">remains</span> <span data-t="1883.
6">compelling</span> <span data-t="1884.3">for</span> <span data-t="1884.6">one</span> <span data-t="1884.9">central</span> <span data-t="1885.5">reason.</span> <span data-t="1886.4">She</span> <span data-t="1886.7">embodies</span> <span data-t="1887.4">the</span> <span data-t="1887.7">violation</span> <span data-t="1888.3">of</span> <span data-t="1888.6">boundaries.</span> <span data-t="1889.5">She</span> <span data-t="1889.8">is</span> <span data-t="1890.0">the</span> <span data-t="1890.2">intrusion</span> <span data-t="1891.0">of</span> <span data-t="1891.1">the</span> <span data-t="1891.
4">hostile</span> <span data-t="1892.2">into</span> <span data-t="1892.7">the</span> <span data-t="1893.0">intimate.</span> <span data-t="1893.9">She</span> <span data-t="1894.2">is</span> <span data-t="1894.5">wind</span> <span data-t="1895.0">where</span> <span data-t="1895.4">walls</span> <span data-t="1895.9">should</span> <span data-t="1896.3">protect.</span> <span data-t="1897.2">She</span> <span data-t="1897.5">is</span> <span data-t="1897.8">night</span> <span data-t="1898.3">where</span> <span data-t="1898.7">there</span> <span data-t="1899.0">should</span> <span data-t="1899.
4">be</span> <span data-t="1899.7">rest.</span> <span data-t="1900.4">She</span> <span data-t="1900.7">is</span> <span data-t="1901.0">seduction</span> <span data-t="1901.8">where</span> <span data-t="1902.0">there</span> <span data-t="1902.2">should</span> <span data-t="1902.6">be</span> <span data-t="1902.9">order.</span> <span data-t="1903.7">She</span> <span data-t="1904.0">is</span> <span data-t="1904.2">wilderness</span> <span data-t="1905.1">where</span> <span data-t="1905.3">there</span> <span data-t="1905.5">should</span> <span data-t="1905.8">be</span> <span data-t="1906.
1">habitation.</span> <span data-t="1907.4">She</span> <span data-t="1907.7">is</span> <span data-t="1907.9">suddenness</span> <span data-t="1908.8">where</span> <span data-t="1909.0">there</span> <span data-t="1909.2">should</span> <span data-t="1909.5">be</span> <span data-t="1909.8">safety.</span> <span data-t="1910.9">That</span> <span data-t="1911.2">is</span> <span data-t="1911.4">why</span> <span data-t="1911.9">she</span> <span data-t="1912.2">feels</span> <span data-t="1912.8">so</span> <span data-t="1913.1">archetypically</span> <span data-t="1914.3">demonic.
</span> <span data-t="1916.0">Not</span> <span data-t="1916.6">because</span> <span data-t="1916.9">every</span> <span data-t="1917.4">late</span> <span data-t="1917.8">legend</span> <span data-t="1918.4">about</span> <span data-t="1918.6">her</span> <span data-t="1918.9">is</span> <span data-t="1919.0">equally</span> <span data-t="1919.8">authoritative,</span> <span data-t="1921.3">but</span> <span data-t="1921.6">because</span> <span data-t="1921.9">the</span> <span data-t="1922.2">cluster</span> <span data-t="1922.6">of</span> <span data-t="1922.9">themes</span> <span data-t="1923.
4">attached</span> <span data-t="1924.0">to</span> <span data-t="1924.2">her</span> <span data-t="1924.4">touches</span> <span data-t="1925.0">fears</span> <span data-t="1925.6">that</span> <span data-t="1925.8">human</span> <span data-t="1926.2">beings</span> <span data-t="1926.6">have</span> <span data-t="1926.9">carried</span> <span data-t="1927.4">for</span> <span data-t="1927.7">millennia.</span> <span data-t="1929.7">The</span> <span data-t="1930.0">unseen</span> <span data-t="1931.0">entering</span> <span data-t="1931.4">the</span> <span data-t="1931.7">room,</span> <span data-t="1932.
4">the</span> <span data-t="1932.6">hostile</span> <span data-t="1933.3">crossing</span> <span data-t="1933.8">the</span> <span data-t="1934.0">threshold,</span> <span data-t="1935.3">the</span> <span data-t="1935.6">intimate</span> <span data-t="1936.4">becoming</span> <span data-t="1937.1">dangerous,</span> <span data-t="1938.6">the</span> <span data-t="1938.9">desert</span> <span data-t="1939.5">coming</span> <span data-t="1940.1">home.</span> <span data-t="1940.9">That</span> <span data-t="1941.2">is</span> <span data-t="1941.4">why</span> <span data-t="1941.
8">the</span> <span data-t="1942.2">name</span> <span data-t="1942.6">lasted.</span> <span data-t="1944.0">So</span> <span data-t="1944.3">in</span> <span data-t="1944.6">the</span> <span data-t="1944.9">end,</span> <span data-t="1945.1">that</span> <span data-t="1945.4">is</span> <span data-t="1945.5">why</span> <span data-t="1945.8">Lilith</span> <span data-t="1946.6">had</span> <span data-t="1946.8">to</span> <span data-t="1947.0">be</span> <span data-t="1947.4">first.</span> <span data-t="1948.2">She</span> <span data-t="1948.6">was</span> <span data-t="1948.
8">the</span> <span data-t="1949.0">overwhelming</span> <span data-t="1949.8">favorite</span> <span data-t="1950.2">in</span> <span data-t="1950.3">the</span> <span data-t="1950.4">poll,</span> <span data-t="1951.1">yes,</span> <span data-t="1951.9">but</span> <span data-t="1952.2">more</span> <span data-t="1952.6">importantly,</span> <span data-t="1953.5">she</span> <span data-t="1953.8">teaches</span> <span data-t="1954.3">us</span> <span data-t="1954.6">how</span> <span data-t="1954.8">this</span> <span data-t="1955.0">entire</span> <span data-t="1955.5">series</span> <span data-t="1956.
1">needs</span> <span data-t="1956.5">to</span> <span data-t="1956.7">proceed.</span> <span data-t="1957.7">She</span> <span data-t="1958.0">teaches</span> <span data-t="1958.6">us</span> <span data-t="1958.7">to</span> <span data-t="1958.9">ask</span> <span data-t="1959.3">where</span> <span data-t="1959.5">a</span> <span data-t="1959.8">name</span> <span data-t="1960.1">comes</span> <span data-t="1960.5">from,</span> <span data-t="1961.0">what</span> <span data-t="1961.3">language</span> <span data-t="1961.8">family</span> <span data-t="1962.3">it</span> <span data-t="1962.
5">belongs</span> <span data-t="1963.2">to,</span> <span data-t="1963.7">what</span> <span data-t="1964.0">its</span> <span data-t="1964.2">earliest</span> <span data-t="1964.8">attestation</span> <span data-t="1965.8">is,</span> <span data-t="1966.4">what</span> <span data-t="1966.7">later</span> <span data-t="1967.2">traditions</span> <span data-t="1967.8">did</span> <span data-t="1968.2">to</span> <span data-t="1968.4">it,</span> <span data-t="1968.9">and</span> <span data-t="1969.1">how</span> <span data-t="1969.4">much</span> <span data-t="1969.7">certainty</span> <span data-t="1970.
3">we</span> <span data-t="1970.5">are</span> <span data-t="1970.7">actually</span> <span data-t="1971.2">entitled</span> <span data-t="1971.8">to</span> <span data-t="1972.1">claim.</span> <span data-t="1973.0">She</span> <span data-t="1973.4">teaches</span> <span data-t="1974.0">us</span> <span data-t="1974.2">that</span> <span data-t="1974.4">a</span> <span data-t="1974.6">named</span> <span data-t="1975.2">demon</span> <span data-t="1975.8">can</span> <span data-t="1976.2">be</span> <span data-t="1976.5">very</span> <span data-t="1976.8">old</span> <span data-t="1977.
4">without</span> <span data-t="1978.0">being</span> <span data-t="1978.6">simple,</span> <span data-t="1979.4">very</span> <span data-t="1979.7">important</span> <span data-t="1980.3">without</span> <span data-t="1980.9">being</span> <span data-t="1981.3">exhaustively</span> <span data-t="1982.2">documented,</span> <span data-t="1983.3">and</span> <span data-t="1983.6">very</span> <span data-t="1983.9">influential</span> <span data-t="1984.8">without</span> <span data-t="1985.3">being</span> <span data-t="1985.8">reducible</span> <span data-t="1986.7">to</span> <span data-t="1987.
0">one</span> <span data-t="1987.4">clean</span> <span data-t="1988.1">biography.</span> <span data-t="1989.5">And</span> <span data-t="1989.8">frankly,</span> <span data-t="1990.9">that</span> <span data-t="1991.2">is</span> <span data-t="1991.4">exactly</span> <span data-t="1992.0">what</span> <span data-t="1992.2">I</span> <span data-t="1992.6">want</span> <span data-t="1992.8">this</span> <span data-t="1993.0">series</span> <span data-t="1993.6">to</span> <span data-t="1993.8">do.</span> <span data-t="1994.3">I</span> <span data-t="1994.6">want</span> <span data-t="1994.
9">us</span> <span data-t="1995.1">to</span> <span data-t="1995.3">take</span> <span data-t="1995.6">these</span> <span data-t="1995.8">names</span> <span data-t="1996.2">seriously</span> <span data-t="1997.0">without</span> <span data-t="1997.7">surrendering</span> <span data-t="1998.6">our</span> <span data-t="1998.8">discernment.</span> <span data-t="2000.0">I</span> <span data-t="2000.3">want</span> <span data-t="2000.6">us</span> <span data-t="2000.9">to</span> <span data-t="2001.1">respect</span> <span data-t="2001.6">the</span> <span data-t="2001.9">ancient</span> <span data-t="2002.
6">material</span> <span data-t="2003.4">without</span> <span data-t="2004.1">romanticizing</span> <span data-t="2005.4">it.</span> <span data-t="2005.8">And</span> <span data-t="2006.2">I</span> <span data-t="2006.5">want</span> <span data-t="2006.7">us</span> <span data-t="2006.9">to</span> <span data-t="2007.1">resist</span> <span data-t="2007.6">the</span> <span data-t="2007.8">temptation</span> <span data-t="2008.7">to</span> <span data-t="2009.0">pretend</span> <span data-t="2009.8">that</span> <span data-t="2010.2">because</span> <span data-t="2010.5">a</span> <span data-t="2010.
7">name</span> <span data-t="2011.1">sounds</span> <span data-t="2011.7">old,</span> <span data-t="2012.5">we</span> <span data-t="2012.8">therefore</span> <span data-t="2013.5">understand</span> <span data-t="2014.2">everything</span> <span data-t="2014.9">attached</span> <span data-t="2015.4">to</span> <span data-t="2015.6">it.</span> <span data-t="2015.9">Lilith</span> <span data-t="2016.6">is</span> <span data-t="2016.9">old,</span> <span data-t="2017.4">Lilith</span> <span data-t="2018.0">is</span> <span data-t="2018.2">layered,</span> <span data-t="2019.
0">Lilith</span> <span data-t="2019.8">is</span> <span data-t="2019.9">dangerous,</span> <span data-t="2020.8">and</span> <span data-t="2021.1">Lilith</span> <span data-t="2021.8">is</span> <span data-t="2022.0">one</span> <span data-t="2022.2">of</span> <span data-t="2022.3">the</span> <span data-t="2022.5">clearest</span> <span data-t="2023.4">examples</span> <span data-t="2024.2">of</span> <span data-t="2024.5">why</span> <span data-t="2025.0">method</span> <span data-t="2025.6">matters</span> <span data-t="2026.3">more</span> <span data-t="2026.6">than</span> <span data-t="2026.9">swagger.
</span> <span data-t="2029.0">In</span> <span data-t="2029.3">the</span> <span data-t="2029.4">next</span> <span data-t="2029.8">episode,</span> <span data-t="2030.7">we</span> <span data-t="2031.0">will</span> <span data-t="2031.2">move</span> <span data-t="2031.6">on</span> <span data-t="2031.8">to</span> <span data-t="2032.0">another</span> <span data-t="2032.5">name</span> <span data-t="2033.0">demon</span> <span data-t="2033.7">and</span> <span data-t="2034.0">continue</span> <span data-t="2034.6">applying</span> <span data-t="2035.0">the</span> <span data-t="2035.
3">same</span> <span data-t="2035.6">principles</span> <span data-t="2036.6">earliest</span> <span data-t="2037.4">attestation,</span> <span data-t="2038.6">language</span> <span data-t="2039.3">family,</span> <span data-t="2040.0">original</span> <span data-t="2040.6">context,</span> <span data-t="2041.4">later</span> <span data-t="2041.9">reception,</span> <span data-t="2042.8">and</span> <span data-t="2043.1">how</span> <span data-t="2043.4">much</span> <span data-t="2043.6">certainty</span> <span data-t="2044.2">the</span> <span data-t="2044.5">evidence</span> <span data-t="2045.
0">can</span> <span data-t="2045.4">really</span> <span data-t="2045.7">bear.</span> <span data-t="2046.8">Because</span> <span data-t="2047.4">in</span> <span data-t="2047.8">this</span> <span data-t="2048.1">field,</span> <span data-t="2049.0">the</span> <span data-t="2049.4">moment</span> <span data-t="2049.7">we</span> <span data-t="2050.0">stop</span> <span data-t="2050.3">being</span> <span data-t="2050.7">careful</span> <span data-t="2051.3">is</span> <span data-t="2051.5">the</span> <span data-t="2051.8">moment</span> <span data-t="2052.1">we</span> <span data-t="2052.
3">start</span> <span data-t="2052.6">mistaking</span> <span data-t="2053.4">our</span> <span data-t="2053.6">own</span> <span data-t="2054.0">confidence</span> <span data-t="2054.7">for</span> <span data-t="2055.0">knowledge.</span> <span data-t="2055.8">Thank</span> <span data-t="2056.2">you</span> <span data-t="2056.3">for</span> <span data-t="2056.5">listening</span> <span data-t="2056.9">to</span> <span data-t="2057.0">Southern</span> <span data-t="2057.5">Demonology.</span> <span data-t="2058.6">Stay</span> <span data-t="2059.0">safe</span> <span data-t="2059.
4">out</span> <span data-t="2059.8">there.</span> <span data-t="2071.1">Find</span> <span data-t="2071.6">us</span> <span data-t="2071.9">online</span> <span data-t="2072.4">at</span> <span data-t="2072.7">Southern</span> <span data-t="2073.2">Demonology.com,</span> <span data-t="2075.1">where</span> <span data-t="2075.4">you</span> <span data-t="2075.6">can</span> <span data-t="2075.8">find</span> <span data-t="2076.2">all</span> <span data-t="2076.4">of</span> <span data-t="2076.6">our</span> <span data-t="2077.0">social</span> <span data-t="2077.3">links,</span> <span data-t="2078.
1">including</span> <span data-t="2079.0">YouTube,</span> <span data-t="2079.8">TikTok,</span> <span data-t="2080.8">and</span> <span data-t="2081.1">Patreon.</span> <span data-t="2082.2">In</span> <span data-t="2082.5">addition</span> <span data-t="2083.0">to</span> <span data-t="2083.4">listen</span> <span data-t="2083.8">to</span> <span data-t="2084.0">episodes</span> <span data-t="2085.0">and</span> <span data-t="2085.2">read</span> <span data-t="2085.6">their</span> <span data-t="2085.8">transcripts.</span> <span data-t="2087.4">Also,</span> <span data-t="2088.
1">if</span> <span data-t="2088.3">you</span> <span data-t="2088.6">have</span> <span data-t="2088.8">a</span> <span data-t="2089.1">moment,</span> <span data-t="2089.6">please</span> <span data-t="2090.1">rate</span> <span data-t="2090.6">this</span> <span data-t="2090.8">podcast</span> <span data-t="2091.4">and</span> <span data-t="2091.7">share</span> <span data-t="2092.0">it</span> <span data-t="2092.2">with</span> <span data-t="2092.5">friends,</span> <span data-t="2093.2">as</span> <span data-t="2093.5">nothing</span> <span data-t="2094.1">can</span> <span data-t="2094.
2">help</span> <span data-t="2094.6">us</span> <span data-t="2094.9">grow</span> <span data-t="2095.4">more.</span>
<span data-t="2124.4">K-A-L-S-H-I.</span> <span data-t="2126.1">CalCHI.</span> <span data-t="2126.9">Trade</span> <span data-t="2127.2">what's</span> <span data-t="2127.4">next.</span> <span data-t="2127.8">$18</span> <span data-t="2128.2">plus</span> <span data-t="2128.5">only.</span> <span data-t="2128.7">Restrictions</span> <span data-t="2129.2">and</span> <span data-t="2129.3">eligibility</span> <span data-t="2129.9">requirements</span> <span data-t="2130.4">apply.</span> <span data-t="2130.8">Event</span> <span data-t="2131.1">contract</span> <span data-t="2131.
5">trading</span> <span data-t="2131.8">involves</span> <span data-t="2132.2">risk</span> <span data-t="2132.5">and</span> <span data-t="2132.6">may</span> <span data-t="2132.7">not</span> <span data-t="2132.9">be</span> <span data-t="2133.0">suitable</span> <span data-t="2133.3">for</span> <span data-t="2133.4">all</span> <span data-t="2133.5">investors.</span> <span data-t="2133.9">Calci</span> <span data-t="2134.6">products</span> <span data-t="2134.8">are</span> <span data-t="2134.9">not</span> <span data-t="2135.0">available</span> <span data-t="2135.3">in</span> <span data-t="2135.
4">all</span> <span data-t="2135.5">jurisdictions.</span> <span data-t="2136.2">Prices,</span> <span data-t="2136.6">values,</span> <span data-t="2137.0">and</span> <span data-t="2137.0">available</span> <span data-t="2137.4">markets</span> <span data-t="2137.8">may</span> <span data-t="2137.8">differ</span> <span data-t="2138.1">from</span> <span data-t="2138.2">those</span> <span data-t="2138.4">mentioned.</span> <span data-t="2138.8">For</span> <span data-t="2139.0">more</span> <span data-t="2139.1">information,</span> <span data-t="2139.4">see</span> <span data-t="2139.6">Calci.
com</span> <span data-t="2140.6">slash</span> <span data-t="2141.0">regulatory.</span>
<span data-t="2144.1">That</span> <span data-t="2144.4">sound</span> <span data-t="2145.0">could</span> <span data-t="2145.1">mean</span> <span data-t="2145.4">a</span> <span data-t="2145.5">lot</span> <span data-t="2145.8">of</span> <span data-t="2146.0">things.</span> <span data-t="2146.9">And</span> <span data-t="2147.1">when</span> <span data-t="2147.4">something's</span> <span data-t="2147.9">going</span> <span data-t="2148.1">wrong</span> <span data-t="2148.3">at</span> <span data-t="2148.6">home,</span> <span data-t="2149.0">the</span> <span data-t="2149.
2">hardest</span> <span data-t="2149.8">part</span> <span data-t="2150.0">can</span> <span data-t="2150.2">be</span> <span data-t="2150.3">figuring</span> <span data-t="2150.7">out</span> <span data-t="2150.9">what</span> <span data-t="2151.1">the</span> <span data-t="2151.4">problem</span> <span data-t="2151.7">actually</span> <span data-t="2152.3">is.</span> <span data-t="2153.6">At</span> <span data-t="2153.9">ThumbTech,</span> <span data-t="2154.8">you</span> <span data-t="2154.9">can</span> <span data-t="2155.0">upload</span> <span data-t="2155.4">a</span> <span data-t="2155.
5">voice</span> <span data-t="2155.8">message</span> <span data-t="2156.2">or</span> <span data-t="2156.3">a</span> <span data-t="2156.4">photo,</span> <span data-t="2156.9">and</span> <span data-t="2157.1">our</span> <span data-t="2157.4">AI-powered</span> <span data-t="2158.2">search</span> <span data-t="2158.5">will</span> <span data-t="2158.6">help</span> <span data-t="2159.0">diagnose</span> <span data-t="2159.5">your</span> <span data-t="2159.8">project.</span> <span data-t="2160.4">Plus,</span> <span data-t="2160.8">the</span> <span data-t="2161.0">pros</span> <span data-t="2161.
4">we</span> <span data-t="2161.6">know</span> <span data-t="2161.9">have</span> <span data-t="2162.1">over</span> <span data-t="2162.3">14</span> <span data-t="2162.8">million</span> <span data-t="2163.1">five-star</span> <span data-t="2163.8">reviews,</span> <span data-t="2164.4">so</span> <span data-t="2164.6">you</span> <span data-t="2164.8">can</span> <span data-t="2165.0">hire</span> <span data-t="2165.4">with</span> <span data-t="2165.7">confidence.</span> <span data-t="2166.5">ThumbTech,</span> <span data-t="2167.4">we</span> <span data-t="2167.7">know</span> <span data-t="2168.
0">homes.</span> <span data-t="2168.7">Hire</span> <span data-t="2169.1">the</span> <span data-t="2169.4">right</span> <span data-t="2169.8">pro</span> <span data-t="2170.1">today.</span>
<span data-t="2198.2">Enrollment</span> <span data-t="2198.7">requirements,</span> <span data-t="2199.1">monthly,</span> <span data-t="2199.5">and</span> <span data-t="2199.7">other</span> <span data-t="2199.9">limited</span> <span data-t="2200.3">terms</span> <span data-t="2200.7">apply.</span>
