Did the Sumerian goddess Lilith have funny bird feet?

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sara

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I was looking at a picture of a Sumerian stone relief from 1950 B.C. and it looks like the goddess Lilith has funny bird feet and wings.
The article claims she was worshiped in Babylon as Lilitu, Ischtar and sometimes as Lamaschtu.
Could this Lilith be the same one later referred to in some Biblical texts?
If she is, did she still look like that?
 
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sarahtipan

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Sumerian goddess yes, the Christian version usually depicts her lower body as that of a snake, though one version has her with lizard's feet and lizard's tail, but from the Victorian Period onwards she is depicted in a full humanoid state as a beautiful woman.

Hope that helps.
 
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raphael_zook

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The "Lilith" is a type of bird in the Hebrew texts. The thing is, looking at the Sumerian myth of Lilith (Lilitu), at one point, to escape the "great prince", turned into a bird and grasped up some people and her six-armed snake-tailed children to carry them to safety - so this is probably where the bird connection came into play, but the Bible doesn't acknowledge and certainly doesn't revere her. If you want to find some other Babylonian or other middle eastern deities mentioned accursedly in the Bible, there is Tammuz (Dumuzi) in Ezekiel.
 
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