Lilith, Egregorization, Harmful Inheritance, and Feminist Reinterpretation
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Lilith's use as a figure of women's empowerment raises a specific inheritance question: what becomes of maternal and infant danger when a threatening received figure is reconstructed as an emancipatory collective bearer? This paper compares selected textual witnesses, primary feminist retellings and liturgical writing, and a published therapeutic case through Theories I–IV and the General Theory of Ritual Scaffolding. It adopts the author's distinction between an unspecified prior deity, a Judeo-Christian ethereal egregore and a distinct derived modern egregore. The historical comparison identifies explicit infant-danger and maternal-lethal-intent portrayals while preserving differences of version, speaker, genre and provenance. Plaskow's retelling and Grenn's practitioner programme make positive reconstruction visible; Fragakis's case gives a separately explained relational use. A typed transmission calculus supplies complete proofs and countermodels for compatible histories, conditional retention, suppression, positive reversal, evidence refinement, context-erasing normalization, observation-relative identification, maintained exclusion and joint-input aggregation. Its central result is constructive: harmful derivation permits functional transformation when the actual successor relations exclude the conflicting function and support continued organization. Numerical distinction, favorable rhetoric and cessation of a contributor link each answer different questions. Selective reconstruction sustained through revised relations is the preferred conditional formation interpretation of the selected modern programme. A bounded contemporary application specifies its recipient, protective aims, maintaining acts, review and ending. The conclusion exports three serious Lilith baselines for a separate comparison of Goetic and cross-cultural alternatives.
Author: de Tauraset, Corvidius Ra
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225459687