| Message | In this story I’m working on, there are two female characters, one named Isis and one named Lilith. I came up with their names as references to Egyptian (Isis) and Hebrew (Lilith) lore. As the story stands, Lilith is the innocent, humble, good girl, and Isis is a cold hearted she-bitch. I wrote these characters knowing of their existence in these lores, but not being really familiar with their roles within. Upon further research I’ve found that Isis is an Egyptian Goddess who acts as a mother figure and protector to her followers. In the case of Lilith, in the Hebrew bible she is the first wife of Adam, whom God created from the Earth as he did Adam, on equal ground, and who proved to be insubordinate in matters of sexual servitude and was banished from the garden of Eden, thus becoming the mother of all she-demons and swearing to wipe the children of Adam and Eve off of the face of the planet before marrying Samael, often interpreted as the Angel of Death (there may actually be a rather vague reference to her in the Christian bible, Genesis 1:27, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he them; male and female created he them.", Holy Bible, King James Version. This reference is made before God creates Eve from the rib of Adam.
Theological debates aside, I was wondering if I should switch the two names around to make the reference more apparent. Now, the only reason I am hesitant to do this is because I am about two hundred pages into the story, and am used to relating the two names to the characters I am creating. I also think that Isis sounds more sinister than Lilith (in the story, Isis’ nickname is Ise, which sounds like Ice, which conveys a kind of cold, calculating, and evil image. Any input on this matter would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
HWKI
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