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Lilith as serpent then proceeds to trick Eve into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge and in this way is responsible for the downfall of all of mankind. It is worthwhile to note here that in religions pre-dating Judaism, the serpent was known to be associated with wisdom and rebirth (with the shedding of its skin).

She then is depicted in the Talmud and Kabbalah as first wife to God's first creation of man, Adam. In time, as stated in the Old Testament, the Hebrew followers continued to worship "False Idols", like Asherah, as being as powerful as God. Jeremiah speaks of his (and God's) displeasure at this behavior to the Hebrew people about the worship of the goddess in the Old Testament. Lilith is banished from Adam and God's presence when she is discovered to be a "demon" and Eve becomes Adam's wife. Lilith then takes the form of the serpent in her jealous rage at being displaced as Adam's wife.

The Zohar tradition has influenced Jewish folkore, which postulates God created Adam to marry a woman named Lilith. Outside of Jewish tradition, Lilith was associated with the Mother Goddess, Inanna – later known as both Ishtar and Asherah. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh was said to have destroyed a tree that was in a sacred grove dedicated to the goddess Ishtar/Inanna/Asherah. Lilith ran into the wilderness in despair.

According to Zohar, Lilith is the name of Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time as Adam. She left Adam and refused to return to the Garden of Eden after she mated with archangel Samael. Her story was greatly developed, during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadic midrashim, the Zohar and Jewish mysticism.

Robert Graves concluded that the male-dominant monotheistic god of Judaism and its successors were the cause of the White Goddess's downfall, and thus the source of much of the modern world's woe.

There are man festivals associated with this belief in both tribes.

There is a belief in both the Selk'nam and Yámana tribes that women used to rule over men in ancient times.Yámana attribute the present situation to a successful revolt of men.

When Tierra del Fuego was reached in the 16th Century, European explorers found that men-only cabals ruled the local tribes.

Joseph Campbell suggested that such violent coups might have been a common pattern throughout history…

The primary God is then masculine.

At which point, the connection between the menstrual cycle, the moon, crops and fertility is broken, though not entirely forgotten.

It is only much later that paternalistic religions emerge.

But her underlying identity is always the same.

Isis

Athena

Devi

The Mother reigned supreme, goddess of the Moon and of fertility. The White Goddess. Astarte. Athena. Isis. She had many names in many places....

Joseph Campbell argued that this was because of the connection between the menstrual cycle and the phases of the moon.

In agrarian cultures religion was first founded on fertility and the female principle.

Women almost certainly ruled such communities.

The cycles of the year became the foundation of new religions based upon the sun, moon and stars.

Huts, hearths, granaries, and non-portable stone tools for grinding grains in Africa. The art of Ancient times leaves a record of these times...

In the same epoch, potatoes and beans are cultivated in South America, millet and rice in East Asia. Houses, kilns, pottery, turquoise carvings, tools made from stone and bone, and bone flutes are evidenced in China.