World of Darkness - Vampire - Revelations of the Dark Mother

Even The Book of Nod speaks of her but little. She is Lilith, the Dark Queen, the Harlot of the Damned. It was she, some whisper, who taught Caine his shadowed gifts. And it is she, the legends continue, who will rise to herald the Final Nights, the great Gehenna.Come, childer, and hear the Dark Mothers tale. Embraces Her Children for the Final Nights A Book of Nod-style tome of vampire myths and history, Revelations of the Dark Mother explores the heretofore ignored legends of Lilith, the Dark Queen. Learn of the hidden Lilith-cults that have existed down through the ages. Discover a new telling of the Vampire creation myth, and guess at what is yet to come in the night. Revelations of the Dark Mother......Page 1 Contents......Page 3 Preface : Coiled at the Roots......Page 4 Notes About This Book......Page 8 The Three Cycles of Lilith......Page 9 The Bahari......Page 10 Initiation......Page 11 Blood Bahari : Renunciates of Caine......Page 13 Examples of Ba'hara Pictograms......Page 14 First Circle : The Book of the Serpent......Page 16 The Oath of Lilith......Page 17 The Genesis Fragment......Page 18 I: The Creation......Page 19 II: The Garden......Page 20 III: Lilith as Jehovah's Consort......Page 21 IV: Lilith Alone......Page 22 VI: Jehovah Charges Lucifer with the Guarding of Eden......Page 24 VII : The First Garden of Lilith......Page 25 VIII: The Creation of Eve, and the Fall......Page 26 IX: The Wrath of the Lord of the Garden, and His Sevenfold Curses......Page 29 X: Judgment, Love and Assertion......Page 30 XI: The Exile......Page 31 Book of the Serpent : Endnotes......Page 32 Second Circle : The Book of the Owl......Page 35 I: The First Peace......Page 36 II: The Days Before......Page 37 III: The Ocean and All Its Creatures......Page 38 V: Lilith and Lucifer......Page 39 VI: The Coming of Caine......Page 40 VII: The Children......Page 44 VIII: The Rape of D'hainu......Page 45 IX: The Curse upon Caine and His Offspring......Page 46 The Rite of Caine......Page 47 Part One : The Rite of Death......Page 48 Part Two : The Rite of Revenge......Page 49 The Lament for Lucifer (Editor's note)......Page 50 The Lament for Lucifer......Page 51 Book of the Owl : Endnotes......Page 52 Third Circle : The Book of the Dragon......Page 54 Malediction : Queen of Hells......Page 55 Lamia : Notes of Inquisition......Page 57 Owl, Cat and Serpent......Page 59 The Rising Tides (Editor's Notes)......Page 60 The Rising Tides......Page 61 Book of the Dragon : Endnotes......Page 63