But Lilith didn't want to leave the Red Sea, not just because she wasn't happy with Adam not treating her as his equal, but also because she somehow managed to birth hundreds of demon children. God sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof to bring Lilith back, and it also takes a sacrifice of three to bring her back in Diablo.

Sanctuary is a reference to the Red Sea, where Lilith went after leaving Adam in the Garden of Eden. (Image credit: Blizzard Entertainment)īut blood and the number three are just small parts of the mythology that seems to have inspired Diablo's Lilith, which is laid out in the Book of Isaiah 34:14 and the rest of Jewish folklore. Reminiscent of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam painting. It says, 'And demons and monster shall meet, and the hairy ones shall cry out to one another, there hath the lamia lain down, and found rest for herself.' So blood, vampires, lamia, Lilith-they're all one in the same.

in 1950), uses the term lamia in the same passage, to my surprise.

A Catholic Bible that was once my grandmother's (published by The Catholic Press, Inc. Lamia has also come to mean 'vampire' in other cultures. Lamia, in ancient Greek mythology, was a woman who became a child eater after Hera killed her children who were fathered by Zeus. Lilith is also called 'lamia' in the Latin Vulgate Book of Isaiah 34:14, a late 4th century translation of the Bible that became the Catholic Church's official Latin version of the Bible by the 16th century. 'By three they come, by three the way opens' one of the characters says in the Diablo 4 cinematic. Blood, whether we're talking about vampirism or not, is ritualistically and literally a life force Catholics consider the sacramental wine the blood of Christ, for example.

Opening the door to the inner sanctum in the cinematic also requires a blood sacrifice. Vampire lore (or Greco-Roman mythology) also considers her the starting point for vampirism-hence why bringing Lilith back from her prison in Diablo 4 would require a blood sacrifice. In Jewish mythology, it's been said that Lilith was Adam's first wife. There are many parallels between the Diablo Lilith and the mythological Lilith. Much of her fictional backstory in Diablo is from Jewish mythology and folklore (although the same passages in the Hebrew Bible about her also appear in the many versions of the Christian Old Testament). In the Diablo 4 trailer, Lilith is brought back from the Void, and she looks just as pissed off as the day she was banished there.

Diablo 4 opening cinematic