Lilith. Sometimes means night owl. Mesopotamian background: “Here we find Inanna who plants a tree later hoping to cut from its wood a throne and a bed for herself. But as the tree grows, a snake settled in the top and in the trunk the demon ki-sikl-lil-la makes her lair” (520). The difficulty is how this relates to Isaiah 34:14.
(Thanks to Brian Godawa’s site for the artwork)
For starters, the standard conservative/deist explanation makes little sense. It’s basically telling of a horrible area where…..owls live. Sorry, that doesn’t work. Yet, Isaiah doesn’t directly link Lilith to the Mesopotamian background, yet that could be simply understood.
Logical Investigations 