Lilith (oWOD)

From the White Wolf Wiki, the most complete White Wolf reference

Lilith: Also, Lillith. Originally, she was a female demon who formed part of Babylonian and Canaanite Pagan religion. She was incorporated into the religion of the ancient Hebrews and is mentioned in Isaiah 34:14. The Revised Standard Version of the Bible refers to her as a Night Hag. She was believed to be a female demon that seduced men, terrified children at night, etc. Some later Jewish sources identified her as the first wife of Adam, created at the same time as he was. She didn't submit to Adam's will and was banished from the Garden of Eden.

Lilith is an obscure heretical figure in Noddist mythology, although her followers the Bahari see her as the aggrieved party in the whole homicidal farmer thing.

According to the Talmud, Lilith was the first wife of Adam and his co-equal, split off of Adam Kadmon and his counterpart in power and wisdom. For this, God banished her from Eden, tried a second time and then finally got the whole thing right with Eve.

According to the Bahari, however, Lilith enjoyed an extensive sequence of affairs with both Yahweh and Lucifer, who were Gods with their own Gardens (here possibly referring to pocket dimensions). Eventually abandoned by both, she met the wandering banished descendant of her ex-husband, a surly little murderer named Caine. She took Caine in, tended to his injuries, fed and healed him, and taught him secret wisdom — the seeds of which blossomed into the vampiric Disciplines.

This apocryphal story is detailed in the Book of Nod as the Cycle of Lilith and in the Revelations of the Dark Mother, a Bahari text which tells the Book of Nod from Lilith's perspective. Some say the story lends evidence to support the theory that Lilith was one of the first mages, perhaps one of the predecessors of the Verbena.

And how does he repay her? By abandoning her as well, to wander forever apart, mother of monsters and thief of infant breaths. Caine goes on to found Enoch and Lilith leaves the scene.

In modern nights, the cult of Lilith is a Path of Enlightenment in the Sabbat. Bahari believe that pain is the goad that leads to wisdom, and that true love involves more than a little screaming and more than a lot of blood. The Lilins are not exclusively a vampiric cult, however; their predecessors worshipped Lilith as mortals, until the Lamia were embraced by Lazarus.