Southern Demonology
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Demonology
On AirEst. 2017
Lilith: Wind, Night, and Wasting
S7 · E9 · JUNE 1, 2026
Season 7 · Episode 9

Lilith: Wind, Night, and Wasting

Send us Fan Mail Lilith is one of the oldest, most controversial, and most misunderstood names in all of demonology. In this first episode of the named demons series, JJ examines Lilith through the lens of language, history, and reception rather than modern mythmaking. Beginning with her Mesopotamian roots and moving through Isaiah 34, Psalm 91’s allusive “arrow that flieth by day,” the Dead Sea Scrolls, and later Jewish tradition, this episode explores how Lilith developed into one of the mo...

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Speaker 20:00

<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>

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Speaker 31:53

<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>

Speaker 12:51

<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>

Speaker 215:15

<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>

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Speaker 117:11

<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>

Speaker 235:24

<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>

Speaker 435:44

<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>

Speaker 336:38

<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>