The Sumerian name "Lilitu" is derived from "lil" which means "wind," "breath," and "space". We freely admit that there is no documentation in the surviving Sumerian literature about any cult of Lilitu whatsoever. Our material is revelatory, supported by scholarship where that is possible.

We use the image of the Burney relief to represent Her, following Samuel Noah Kramer, who could have been wrong in his identification, but it does not seem to matter to Her. The Burney relief image is the prototype of thousands of "Potnia Theron" (Lady of the Beasts) icons from all over the ancient world, and it seems to fit Her very well.

The Hebrew legend of Lilith in its modern form (first wife of Adam, later mother of demons) comes from a 10th-century text called The Alphabet of ben Sira which was mistaken for authentic Midrash by people who quite possibly should have known better. The characteristics of the Hebrew Lilith, the one most known to the modern world, seem to us to have been derived as much from the Sumerian "demon" Lamashtu as from Lilitu, despite the similarity of the name to the latter one.