[HPFGU-OTChatter] Sandman: where do the three eve stories come from?

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

At 5:51 PM +0000 7/14/03, Tim Regan wrote:
>
>Eve (who now lives in a cave in The Dreaming) tells him
>that there were three Eves, three wives of Adam.

The first one was Lilith, who was co-equal with Adam and thus 
completely unacceptable to the patriarchs.  They had to turn her into 
an owl-demon.

This website covers the multiple-Eve tradition pretty thoroughly:

http://www.lilithmag.com/resources/lilithsources.shtml

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