Where La Dia Blesse from,
While trying to explain La Dia Blesse (la diablesse), La Jah Blesse (La Jah Blesse), one of the Trinidad folklore,
I recently became aware of the parallel to Lilith and the Queen of Sheba!. If you have info as to whether there I sa connection , please e-mail
http://www.windweaver.com/sheba/Sheba2.htm
More realistic portraits of the Queen of Sheba appear in the Bible
and the Kebra Negast. According to Ethiopian legend, she was born in
1020 B.C. in Ophir, and educated in Ethiopia.
Her mother was Queen Ismenie; her father, chief minister to Za Sebado, succeeded him as King.
One story describes that as a child Sheba (called Makeda) was to be sacrificed to a serpent god,
but was rescued by the stranger 'Angaboo. Later,
her pet jackal bit her badly on one foot and leg, leaving lasting scars and deformity.
When her father died in 1005 B.C., Sheba became Queen at the age of fifteen.
Contradictory legends refer to her as ruling for forty years, and reigning as a virgin
queen for six years. In most accounts, she never married. Sheba was known
to be beautiful (despite her ankle and leg), intelligent, understanding, resourceful, and adventurous
With a Google search for “Folklore, world, female, cloven leg, hairy, sheba’
I came across
It is said that Lilith, In an Arabic derivation has a cloven foot and hairy legs, being a kindof Sphinx. She is connected with riddles and prophecies. http://www.choronzon.com/tocmirror/tzimon/General/lillithr.txt Lilith, 'a hot fiery female who at first cohabited with man' - the Zohar.In jewish tradition also the bride of the evil angel Sammael (or Satan). Lilith is a female demon, that will haunt mankind until the last days,when all unclean spirits will be cast out by the Messiah. Contrary to most demons, Lilith is not mortal but eternal, and in this waymay be called the black goddess. If black means evil or just unknown ishard to tell. One rumor has it she herself is the Messiah. Lilith is the counterpart to the virgin Mary. Among her avatars areLilu Ardat, one of the lili, female storm-demons in Babylonian demonology,Queen of Sheba, Lamia, Mary of Bethany, Brunhild (in Niebelungen) etc She was known as the harlot, the wicked, the false, and the black. The first
woman on earth who was equal to man and a free spirit was
condemned to survive for eternity as a she-devil, mating with
demons and devils and bearing monsters instead of human
children. This image was to serve as a threat and warning to
any woman who might consider leaving her husband or defying
male authority.
During the next period in Lilith's mythical biography society
perceived her as a crazed madwoman who was obsessed with
wanton, perverted sexual desire. She spent her time seducing
men, breeding demons, and murdering small babies.http://www.mysticwicks.com/archive/index/t-2237
Trinidad sites about La Dia blesse
http://www.picong.com/article226.htmlhowever
In Arabic lore there exists a widespread identification of Lilith
with the Queen of Sheba. A Jewish and Arab myth from the third
century told that the Queen of Sheba was a JINN -- half woman
and half demon. She had cloven feet and hairy legs, a kind of
sphinx who posed riddles. It was said that King Solomon had
dominion over demons, spirits, and lilin and knew the language
of each. Preparing for the visit of the Queen of Sheba, he ordered
the Djinns to build a throne room with a floor of glass.
When the Queen of Sheba entered, she thought that his throne
sat upon water and she lifted her garments in order to cross the
water and approach him. Thus her hairy legs, showing her natural
bestial origin, were revealed.
The evidence that she was Lilith was that the riddles the Queen
of Sheba posed to King Solomon are a repetition of the words of
seduction that Lilith spoke to Adam. "What is water that is
neither in the air nor in the river nor in the ocean nor in the rain?"
The answer to this is supposed to be "the sweat of a horse in
its mane," but it is also a double riddle for "woman's love" or the
wetness between the thighs Of the Queen of Sheba's animal
pubic mane. Solomon accepted her instinctual feminine sexuality
and they had a child, from whom the Abyssinian rulers claim
lineage descent. http://www.mysticwicks.com/archive/index/t-2237
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