An art museum in Minnesota recently hosted what they termed as a “family-friendly” event, but it turned out to be a ritual where museum officials instigated the “summoning” of a mythological demon where families were encouraged to “befriend” the entity.
In August, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis put on an event in its Sculpture Garden publicly touted as a day to “celebrate our plant teachers” and inviting “inspiring green thumbs.” During the event, however, the art center revealed that artist Tamar Ettun—and the website made sure to use “proper pronouns”—presented a performance about Lilith, a mythological entity whose dark origins lie in Babylonian demonology where “amulets and incantations were used to counter the sinister powers of this winged spirit who preyed on pregnant women and infants,” according to biblicaloarchaeology.org.
The Walker website wrote that “families are invited to create a vessel to trap the demon that knows them best—perhaps the ‘demon of overthinking’—and then participate in a playful ceremony to summon and befriend their demon.”
Befriending a demon? How is that supposed to be family friendly?
Lilith is the same demon that was celebrated worldwide when the ARPG Diablo IV video game was released internationally. Clearly, the worship of Lilith has not stopped there.
Deliverance minister Isaiah Saldivar said many friends sent him this information, and at first, he didn’t think it was real.
“When I started to look into it, I realized that not only was it real, but this is a specific demon that they were going to try to summon as a family,” Saldivar says. “This is crazy. I don’t know what’s going on in the world. At first it looked innocent with the plant teachers, but how did we get from that to summoning the demon Lilith?
“We’ve got to push back on this. Not today, Satan. You will not have our families. You will not have our kids.”
The Walker website goes on to say, “Demons have a bad reputation, but maybe we’re just not very good at getting to know them. Do you have a demon that creeps into your thoughts? Maybe the ‘demon of overthinking’ or ‘the demon of not trusting your gut?’ Work with visiting artist Tamar Ettun to design a vessel for holding the demon you know best!”
The website goes on to say, “After designing your trap, Lilith, the empathic demon, will come from the dark side of the moon to lead you in locating your feelings using ancient Babylonian techniques. This collective and playful demon summoning session will conclude with a somatic movement meditation, designed to help you befriend your shadows.”
The Bible mentions Lilith once in Isaiah 34:14 as a “wilderness demon shunned by the prophet Isaiah. Keeping in mind that Lilith is mythological, she also reappears in the Middle Ages in Jewish sources as the dreadful first wife of Adam.
Biblicalarchaeology.org says “In most manifestations of her myth, Lilith represents chaos, seduction and ungodliness Yet, in her every guise, Lilith has cast a spell on humankind. … She is a ‘sexually frustrated and infertile female who behaves aggressively toward young men. … Modern feminists celebrate her (Lilith’s) bold struggle for independence from Adam.'”
Author James Joyce dubbed Lilith as the “patron of abortions.” There is an annual music festival that donates its profits to battered women’s shelters and breast cancer research institutes called “The Lilith Fair.”
“This is a demon that they are summoning at a family event at a museum,” Saldivar says. “It’s absolutely crazy and demonic. People say to me, ‘Isaiah, not everything is not demonic, stop saying that.’ I will stop saying that when the world stops pushing this demonic agenda in our face.
“Why is the devil so bold and you are not bold? Why is the devil so bold and the church is so quiet? And now, we’re like bad guys for preaching about spiritual warfare, deliverance and freedom. Why would you defend Lilith but not the Bible?” {eoa}
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Shawn A. Akers is the online editor at Charisma Media.
