Lilith

The name first appears in Sumerian incantations — a wind-demon carrying away children. Later, in the medieval Jewish midrash The Alphabet of Ben Sira (8th–10th c.), Lilith becomes the first wife of Adam, shaped from the same clay and refusing to submit.

In the kabbalistic Zohar (13th c.) the name widens: she is consort of Samael, mother of the lesser Lilith, a participant in the qlippothic hierarchy. Late-tradition iconography — amulets, manuscripts — pairs a crescent moon with three descending lines; the sign survives into the present.

Contemporary scholarship (Peláez del Rosal, Dan, Scholem) reframes the question: not the "origin" of the figure but the mechanism of her migration between cultures — a rare case of continuous transmission of an occult name across 3,500 years.