106: Nikki Marmery (Lilith)

Charlie and Nikki Marmery (Lilith) discuss her epic tale that looks from the start of the Genesis story all the way to our present day, showing how the biblical stories did away with an all-important goddess for women - Yahweh's wife - and the consequences that has had. There is discussion, too, on the Gnostic gospels, various mythologies, and environmentalism.

A transcript is available on my site

General references:
Jeremiah 7:18 says: "The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods."
About Asherah poles, which Charlie notes, there are many references in the Bible. One such is Deuteronomy 16:21: "Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole beside the altar you build to the Lord your God."
Jennifer Saint's episode where she mentions Sarah Clegg is is 95
The quote from St Paul Nikki includes is from 1 Timothy 2:12

Books mentioned by name or extensively:
Francesca Stavrakopoulou: God: An Anatomy
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Nikki Marmery: On Wilder Seas
Nikki Marmery: Lilith
Sarah Clegg: Women's Lore
The Bible

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Release details: recorded 18th April 2024; published 23rd September 2024

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Discussions

00:01:36 The inspiration - the way the goddess Asherah, god's wife, was taken out of tradition, and the icons that have survived through time
00:04:23 Is there a way Asherah might've been able to continue as a worshipped goddess longer than she did?
00:10:13 All about Nikki's character of Lilith and how the original faiths saw men and women as equal
00:18:25 Nikki's employment of other myths and religions, how they they interacted, and the origins of now-Christian symbols
00:24:49 Nikki's inclusion of Ereskigal, goddess of the Underworld in Sumerian mythology
00:28:41 Nikki's effective dismissal of Heaven and her historical and Biblical reasoning
00:34:23 The environmental aspect of the book
00:37:12 How Nikki's Eden and the events therein are just a small part of the wider world, and, also, Noah's Ark in this context
00:42:50 Nikki's Biblical language. We then move on to her character of Samael specifically
00:48:41 The varied inclusions of Jezebel and Salome
00:53:04 Nikki's depiction of Jesus and using the Gnost