This 18” hand knotted 3mm rutilated Quartz bead necklace holds the one-of-a-kind pendant of Lilith emerging from the Garden of Eden by the light of the moon, unashamed of her nudity and womanhood as she steps forth from the hint Monstera leaves. She walks with moonlight flowing down upon her illuminating her golden skin. Arms positioned for her wings to emerge as she flies away. 

The earliest representations of Lilith seem to be as a great winged Bird Goddess, a wind spirit, or one associated with the Sumerian, Ninlil, Goddess of the Grain, and wife to Enlil. As the “hand of Inanna”, Lilith was notorious for bringing men from the street and fields of war to Inanna’s temple for holy sexual rites, in which the intention was to civilize the people. The sacred sexual customs were, in fact, considered the greatest gift of Inanna.

As Adam’s first wife, however, Lilith really got into trouble with the patriarchy. She had the audacity to want to be treated as Adam’s equal. According to Hebrew mythology, the Babylonian Talmud, the Zohar, and the Alphabet of Ben Sira, Lilith refused to lie below Adam, and thus set the archetypal example for later feminists. 

She was disobedient/independent. Medieval legends said that all witches were derived from Lilith.

Lilith is now recognised as a Goddess by many modern witches.

The irony of course is that the necklace is being held by the statue of Artemis, goddess of the moon who was known as the virgin goddess of the hunt. She helped women in childbirth but also brought sudden death with her arrows. Artemis and her brother Apollo were the children of Zeus and Leto. In some versions of their myth, Artemis was born first and helped her mother to deliver Apollo.