Eisheth Zenunim, Qodeshah, Isheth Zenunim or just Eisheth, known as the Woman of Whoredom, Mother of Prostitution ("the prostitute or woman of all and any"), Mother of the Goat, and is a princess of the Qliphoth.
Description[]
She is found in the Zohar 1:5a-b as Isheth Zennanim or Qodeshah. She is known generally as one of the four angels of prostitution, who are the mates of the demon Samael. Her fellow succubi are Lilith, Naamah, and Agrat Bat Mahlat, she is part of of the group known as "angels of prostitution" in Zoharistic texts. She is a seductive devil and is in an eternal journey for man to fall into the sins of the flesh and feeds on the souls of the fallen.
History[]
Genesis[]
In the beginning Eisheth was a human female created by God alongside Agrat and Naamah to be potential mates for Adam in case he rejected Eve. When Adam proposed to all of them, they rejected Adam's advances with only Eve accepting. Eisheth and her sisters then left Adam and Eve to their endeavours and were likely escorted out of the Garden by Michael. It is said that Eisheth felt the most amount of sympathy for Lilith and Eve and even attempted to communicate with the latter above the walls of the Garden.
Nevertheless, the damage was done, and after the War in Heaven and the Fall of Man, Eisheth became a queen of demons as a consort to Samael. She also was said to have consorted with Pazuzu at one point and it is implied that this occurred likely after his divorce with Lamashtu. They conceived from their union the demoness Astarte, the first of the Lilû demons.
Kabbalah[]
Eisheth is revealed to have been responsible for the corruption of the Shedim. When the first Lilim were destroyed by the three angels, their spirits were gathered by Eisheth, transubstantiated into serpents before being implanted in the bodies of the Shedim since they were without souls after the Sabbath. God's response to this was to bury the Shedim deep beneath the Red Sea. Eisheth mostly did this to parade the imperfections of man to God and Heaven.
She is the youngest of Samael's wives and the ruler of the southern quarter, generally seen as being the lands of Egypt. It was also revealed that Eisheth was the she-wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus, twin brothers that founded the Roman Empire. Eisheth's rule over the southern quarter spread through Salamanca and Damascus, although she would often clash with other demonic territorial spirits like Mahalat.