Go for it. By the time you finish your book, True Blood may be waning in popularity anyway. As this page shows, it has a goodly number of literary precedents, but there’s nothing as definitive as, says, “Hermione” would be.
Cheers for me, but yeah, same thing.
Same here - Dr. Lilith Sternin.
For what it’s worth, I think of the biblical Lilith first. Not all of us are True Blood fans.
I think Lilith being a major character in a book would be awesome. Just be sure that she thinks like a Hebrew woman would 6,000 years ago.
I mainly know about that Lilith from the Straight Dope staff report.
To me, “Lilith” is first and foremost the Bebe Neuwirth character from Cheers. It’s also the title of a fantasy novel by George MacDonald, which I’ve tried to read but don’t think I really got.
Refering to “the biblical Lilith” might be a bit misleading, since
(from the Staff Report I linked to above)
sigh You’re being nitpicky. “Biblical” can either mean “from the Bible” or “during Biblical times.”
As a basically literary discussion, I’m moving this from IMHO to Cafe.
Just write the story. If it’s good it’ll work, if not it won’t. Won’t know until you do it.
This is my Lilith, named after the wife of Adam, although I think my husband went along with it for Frasier-related reasons.
We were thrilled one day when a girl at the dog park appeared to get the reference, until she started going on about vampires for some reason.
Except most of the time I see it used “Biblically”, it’s as a tweak to the standard Judeo-Christian story not because it happened ~5,000 years ago.
Personally I’d roll my eyes at it, not out of any shock or blasphemy but because tweaking religion is one of the most hackneyed and uncreative artistic devices around these days. I’m probably a minority in that mindset though.
When I hear the term “Biblically” I assume they’re talking about people doin’ it.
It is actually pretty interesting how the concept of Lilith originated.
Essentially, it is fanwanking of one of the major problems with the Biblical creation myth - namely, that there are two versions of creation in Genesis, and they aren’t compatible.
In the first, the two ur-humans are made at the same time, out of clay. In the second, Adam is made first, then Eve is made later, out of his rib.
Postulate that Adam was married twice, and voila! The incompatibility dissapears (well, that one, anyway).
The wife of Adam first.
Frasier second.
Then Lilith bowls. I ran across those in college while researching something else.
I know a lot of the Liliths mentioned in this thread, except I had no idea there was a character by that name on True Blood.
Yeah, “Hermione” would obviously be a reference to the queen from Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale.
And in addition to all the other references people have brought up, Lilith was also a powerful demoness in the Diablo games (you could fight her, under certain extreme circumstances, in Diablo II-- She looked like Andariel, and did an absolutely insane amount of poison damage).
Oh, good. I thought I was the only one.
The first thing I thought of was Lilith, first wife of Adam. Then Lilith from Cheers. Then Lilith Fair. And then I ran out of Liliths. Don’t know anything about this vampire stuff.
Lilith, a film starring Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty.
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