Ladies of Lore
Ladies of Lore is dedicated to the women of mythology and folklore, from goddesses, monsters, queens, witches, seers, and everything in between.
Each episode traces these women from their earliest origins through their most famous stories, and explores how they change over time, shaped by the cultures retelling them. We explore how fear, power, desire, and control transformed women into monsters, muses, or moral warnings, and what those transformations reveal about the societies doing the telling.
From ancient myth to modern pop culture, Ladies of Lore looks at where these women began, how they’ve been rewritten, and why they still matter now.
If you love mythology, folklore, and wonder who benefits from the version of the story we are given, you're in the right place.
Ladies of Lore
Lilith: Seductress, Scapegoat, or Survivor?
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Today's episode is all about Lilith, the first lady of the garden of Eden, demoness, seductress and feminist icon.
Come and find out all about her origins, her departure from garden of Eden, her transformation into the infant slaying demon, and reclamation as a feminist symbol of the power of feminine sexuality.
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Cool stuff I mentioned in this episode:
https://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Projects/Reln91/Power/lilith.htm#:~:text=Although%20the%20figure%20of%20Lilith,of%20the%20%22first%20Eve%22.
https://symbolreader.net/2020/08/24/lilith/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lilith-Jewish-folklore
https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lilith
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lilith/
https://jwa.org/node/23210
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/658/the-queen-of-the-night/
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