How overjoyed I am to think, sir, The text notes the name of the amulets buyer: Sylman Ben Katton, for the protection of the people in his home., On an incantation bowl kept at the National Library, which was inscribed in antiquity, long before the ben Sirah stories of the Middle Ages, we find the same narrative which appears on amulets protecting new mothers. A thousand years later, the residents of the land were still dealing with fairly frequent outbreaks. And her enchanted hair was the first gold. Later, the story of how Aaron the High Priest was able to halt the plague with incense is recounted, along with what appears to be a recipe. Stories about Qarinah and Lilith merged in early Islam.[88]. [60] The amulets used against Lilith that were thought to derive from this tradition are, in fact, dated as being much older. Source: Angels and Demons edited by Filip Vukosavovic. Ben Sira's fame reached Nebuchadnezzar II, who called him to his court. The idea in the text that Adam had a wife prior to Eve may have developed from an interpretation of the Book of Genesis and its dual creation accounts; while Genesis 2:22 describes God's creation of Eve from Adam's rib, an earlier passage, 1:27, already indicates that a woman had been made: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Take a good look. Throughout the 16th century, plague spread across different parts of the Middle East. Scholars tend to date the Alphabet between the 8th and 10th centuries AD. He hath slain them' (Num. Found on a parchment paper of middle eastern descent was the information regarding an amulet of protection from Lilith. 34:15 there she-shall-nest the great-owl, and she-lays-(eggs), and she-hatches, and she-gathers under her-shadow: [66], An alternative story links Lilith with the creation of luminaries. [64] But the aspect of the witch-like role that Lilith plays broadens her archetype of the destructive side of witchcraft. [75] Gershom Scholem proposes that the author of the Zohar, Rabbi Moses de Leon, was aware of both the folk tradition of Lilith and another conflicting version, possibly older. Schrader's and Levy's view is therefore partly dependent on a later dating of Deutero-Isaiah to the 6th century BC, and the presence of Jews in Babylon which would coincide with the possible references to the Lltu in Babylonian demonology. Some uses of lltu are listed in the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD, 1956, L.190), in Wolfram von Soden's Akkadisches Handwrterbuch (AHw, p.553), and Reallexikon der Assyriologie (RLA, p. All rights reserved The National Library of Israel 2017 , The sages of Safed created amulets, the Jews of Italy wrote prayers and other Jews warned of less conventional plagues. Tablet XII is not part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, but is a later Assyrian Akkadian translation of the latter part of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. 19. At once, the Holy One, blessed be He, sent these three angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, to bring her back. Spelled as "Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof". Each of them are mothers of demons and have their own hosts and unclean spirits in no number. The issue of these unions were demons and spirits called "the plagues of humankind", and the usual added explanation was that it was through Adam's own sin that Lilith overcame him against his will. Frequently amulets were place in the four corners and throughout the bedchamber. amulet and asked "Who are these?" Ben Sira answered, "The angels who are in charge of medicine: Snvi, Snsvi, and Smnglof." [In English: Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof.] And the Serpent seduced Holy Eve, and enough said for him who understands. Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight. The word itself in turn seems to be a distortion of, "R. Hanina said: One may not sleep in a house alone [in a lonely house], and whoever sleeps in a house alone is seized by Lilith." 151b; b. Baba Bathra 73ab, Kabbalist References: Zohar 3:76b77a; Zohar Sitrei Torah 1:147b148b; Zohar 2:267b; Bacharach,'Emeq haMelekh, 19c; Zohar 3:19a; Bacharach,'Emeq haMelekh, 102d103a; Zohar 1:54b55a, Dead Sea Scroll References: 4QSongs of the Sage/4QShir; 4Q510 frag.11.46a//frag.10.1f; 11QPsAp, Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants, "Finding Lilith: The Most Powerful Hag In History", Collection of Lilith information and links, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lilith&oldid=1139992560, (the) night-demon Lilith, evil and rapacious (, "[Expounding upon the curses of womanhood] In a, "For gira he should take an arrow of Lilith and place it point upwards and pour water on it and drink it. MacDonald's Lilith also has vampiric qualities: she bites people and sucks their blood for sustenance. The grief caused Lamia to turn into a monster that took revenge on mothers by stealing their children and devouring them. Again playing on the Hebrew phrase zot hapaam, Adam, according to the same midrash, declares: "it is she [zot] who is destined to strike the bell [zog] and to speak [in strife] against me, as you read, 'a golden bell [paamon] and a pomegranate' [Exodus 28:34] it is she who will trouble me [mefaamtani] all night" (Genesis Rabbah 18:4). However, nowhere do the rabbis specify what happened to the first woman, leaving the matter open for further speculation. [15] The Isaiah 34:14 Lilith reference does not appear in most common Bible translations such as KJV and NIV. Amen, Amen, Selah, Halleluyah! Adam is said to be perfect until he recognises either his sin or Cain's fratricide that is the cause of bringing death into the world. The ancient Greeks knew these dangerous sorceresses by the name of lamiae, and they believed that they devoured children, or sucked away all their blood till they died. An amulet for safeguarding a newborn child and its mother with an incantation against Lilith. "Return to Adam without delay," the angels said, "or we will drown you!" Lilith asked: "How can I return to Adam and . The first occurrence of plague in the recorded history of the Middle East was known as the Plague of Justinian, named after the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I. This passage may be related to the mention of Lilith in Talmud Shabbath 151b (see above), and also to Talmud Eruvin 18b where nocturnal emissions are connected with the begettal of demons. She said, "I will not lie below," and he said, "I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. Kabbalistic mysticism attempted to establish a more exact relationship between Lilith and God. Blind Dragon acts as an intermediary between Lilith and Samael: Blind Dragon rides Lilith the Sinful may she be extirpated quickly in our days, Amen! [40][41], et occurrent daemonia onocentauris et pilosus clamabit alter ad alterum ibi cubavit lamia et invenit sibi requiem. The demon(ess) is depicted in a frontal position with the whole face showing. XIV, 16)! Under the threat of death, Eve admits that she never loved Adam, while Lilith confesses that she always loved him: As the worst of the venom left my lips, [47][52] These bowls were buried upside down below the structure of the house or on the land of the house, in order to trap the demon or demoness. This is the gap into which the later tradition of Lilith could fit. One mentions her creation as being before Adam's, on the fifth day, because the "living creatures" with whose swarms God filled the waters included Lilith. References to Lilith in the Zohar include the following: She roams at night, and goes all about the world and makes sport with men and causes them to emit seed. Lilith believed she could leave her husband, and as he refused to accept this decree of equality in their sex life apparently meaning that Lilith wished to be on top of her husband during intercourse, she fled from him and escaped.. [2] She is thought to be mentioned in Biblical Hebrew in the Book of Isaiah,[3] and in Late Antiquity in Mandaean mythology and Jewish mythology sources from 500 CE onward. Adam stood in prayer before his Creator: "Sovereign of the universe!" [citation needed] However, the idea that Lilith was the predecessor may be exclusive to the Alphabet. After Adam's body was created a thousand souls from the Left (evil) side attempted to attach themselves to him. [28], Kramer's translation of the Gilgamesh fragment was used by Henri Frankfort (1937)[29] and Emil Kraeling (1937) to support identification of a woman with wings and bird-feet in the disputed Burney Relief as related to Lilith. But they would not listen to one another. Lady [Lilith] represents a Modern Lilith combing out her abundant golden hair and gazing on herself in the glass with that self-absorption by whose strange fascination such natures draw others within their own circle. His slave, soul, body, and all! And round his heart one strangling golden hair. The three angels cast her away from heaven, and are now protecting children and mothers. If Lilith nevertheless succeeded in approaching the child and fondling him, he would laugh in his sleep. Hutter, Manfred (1999) "Lilith", in K. van der Toorn et al. In later periods paint-ed amulets were prepared, and these in time were replaced by prints. Surrounding the image is writing in spiral form; the writing often begins at the centre and works its way to the edge. In this particular case, the "arrow of Lilith" is most probably a scrap of, "Rabbah said: I saw how Hormin the son of Lilith was running on the parapet of the wall of Mahuza, and a rider, galloping below on horseback could not overtake him. These talismans invoke the names of the angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, or sometimes the prophet Elijah, in order to protect young children from the grasp of Lilith. In 1881, the Lilith sonnet was renamed "Body's Beauty" in order to contrast it and Soul's Beauty. And all who possess her will descend to the Pit. However, she was "cursed" to never be able to shut her eyes so that she would forever obsess over her dead children. [67], The first medieval source to depict Adam and Lilith in full was the Midrash A.B.K.I.R. "Printed sheet, late 17th century or early 18th century, 185x130 mm. Concerning this point there is a received tradition from the ancient Sages who made use of the Secret Knowledge of the Lesser Palaces, which is the manipulation of demons and a ladder by which one ascends to the prophetic levels. The translation is, "And demons shall meet with monsters, and one hairy one shall cry out to another; there the lamia has lain down and found rest for herself". The background and purpose of The Alphabet of Ben-Sira is unclear. The Krasmesser would be used by a midwife or by the husband to draw a magic circle around the pregnant or birthing woman to protect her from Lilith and the evil eye, which were considered to represent the greatest danger for children and pregnant women. Sent after her were three angels Senoy, Sansenoy, Semangelof. The Alphabet text places Lilith's creation after God's words in Genesis 2:18 that "it is not good for man to be alone"; in this text God forms Lilith out of the clay from which he made Adam but she and Adam bicker. Asmodeus the great king of the demons has as a mate the Lesser (younger) Lilith, daughter of the king whose name is Qafsefoni. [21] The ki-sikil-lil-la-ke is associated with a serpent and a zu bird. William F. Albright, Theodor H. Gaster,[32] and others, accepted the amulets as a pre-Jewish source which shows that the name Lilith already existed in the 7th century BC but Torczyner (1947) identified the amulets as a later Jewish source.[33]. The Alphabet of Ben-Sira is the earliest surviving source of the story, and the conception that Lilith was Adam's first wife became only widely known with the 17th century Lexicon Talmudicum of German scholar Johannes Buxtorf. [85] Her gift was the "mark of a Sibyl", a gift of second sight. Major sources in Jewish tradition regarding Lilith in chronological order include: The Dead Sea Scrolls contain one indisputable reference to Lilith in Songs of the Sage (4Q510511)[42] fragment 1: And I, the Instructor, proclaim His glorious splendour so as to frighten and to te[rrify] all the spirits of the destroying angels, spirits of the bastards, demons, Lilith, howlers, and [desert dwellers] and those which fall upon men without warning to lead them astray from a spirit of understanding and to make their heart and their desolate during the present dominion of wickedness and predetermined time of humiliations for the sons of lig[ht], by the guilt of the ages of [those] smitten by iniquity not for eternal destruction, [bu]t for an era of humiliation for transgression.[43]. If not, she must permit one hundred of her children to die every day." She tells Elijah that she will lose her power if someone uses her secret names, which she reveals at the end: lilith, abitu, abizu, hakash, avers hikpodu, ayalu, matrota [78], In other amulets, probably informed by The Alphabet of Ben-Sira, she is Adam's first wife. It is preserved today in the British Library in London. According to the legend, if she can't destroy or claim the human infant, because of the angelic amulet, she may spitefully turn against her own children, the Lilim, in a fit of rage. In 1863, Dante Gabriel Rossetti of the Brotherhood began painting what would later be his first rendition of Lady Lilith, a painting he expected to be his "best picture hitherto". The invocations mention Adam, Eve and Lilith, 'Chavah Rishonah' (the first Eve, who is identical with Lilith), also devils or angels: Sanoy, Sansinoy, Smangeluf, Shmari'el (the guardian) and Hasdi'el (the merciful). However, God drove them off. He then separates from holy Eve, sleeps alone, and fasts for 130 years. The Victorian poet Robert Browning re-envisioned Lilith in his poem "Adam, Lilith, and Eve". Lilith does not occur in the Mishnah. According to Augustine Calmet, Lilith has connections with early views on vampires and sorcery: Some learned men have thought they discovered some vestiges of vampirism in the remotest antiquity; but all that they say of it does not come near what is related of the vampires. In contrast, some scholars, such as Lowell K. Handy, hold the view that though Lilith derives from Mesopotamian demonology, evidence of the Hebrew Lilith being present in the sources frequently cited - the Sumerian Gilgamesh fragment and the Sumerian incantation from Arshlan-Tash being two - is scant, if present at all. The above-mentioned angels went in search of her, promising to bring her back. Thus, the merging of Lilith and Asmodeus was inevitable. At this point, the three angels enter the picture. The results were documented in detail by the emperors court historian. The name of his mate is Mehetabel daughter of Matred, and their daughter is Lilith.[73]. In Hebrew-language texts, the term lilith or lilit (translated as "night creatures", "night monster", "night hag", or "screech owl") first occurs in a list of animals in Isaiah 34. [98][99], Raymond Buckland holds that Lilith is a dark moon goddess on par with the Hindu Kali. All rights reserved The National Library of Israel 2017 , The story of the three angels charged with safeguarding newborn babies and their mothers. According to Biblical mythology, Lilith was Adam's first companion and she abandoned him. Who is that?Mephistopheles: A third alternative version states that God originally created Adam and Lilith in a manner that the female creature was contained in the male. The text states that new areas are discovered from time to time, where the plague of archaeology has taken hold in the northern, southern and central regions. The rose and poppy are her flower; for where Since the end of the Talmudic period, Samael has often been portrayed as the source of all evil; his agents charged with defeating the cause of good and righteousness. Told in Genesis 3:16 that "your desire shall be for your husband", she is accused by the Rabbis of having an overdeveloped sexual drive (Genesis Rabbah 20:7) and constantly enticing Adam (Genesis Rabbah 23:5). (Patai81:455f). etc. Ben Sira is presented as the son of Jeremiah, born to the prophet's own daughter who dipped in a mikveh into which Jeremiah was previously forced to lay seed. (eds. God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. (Babylonian Talmud, tractate Bava Bathra 73a-b). The amulets used against Lilith that were thought to derive from this tradition are, in fact, dated as being much older. In the Latin Vulgate Book of Isaiah 34:14, Lilith is translated lamia. The Matron Lilith is the mate of Samael. Said the Holy One to Adam, 'If she agrees to come back, what is made is good. The midrash develops the story of Moses's plea after God expresses anger at the bad report of the spies. This is in accordance with Jewish folk tradition, which associates Lilith both with long hair (a symbol of dangerous feminine seductive power in Jewish culture), and with possessing women by entering them through mirrors.[90]. Leland further notes that Herodias is a name that comes from west Asia, where it denoted an early form of Lilith. Another interesting text can be found in a manuscript which is part of the Bill Gross Collection and which received the rather generic title, Prayers Against the Plague. the first Adam). (15) There the hoot owl shall nest and lay eggs, hatch them out and gather them in her shadow; There shall the kites assemble, none shall be missing its mate. But she swore to them by the name of the living and eternal God: "Whenever I see you or your names or your forms in an amulet, I will have no power over that infant." What is the origin of these three angels? If the infant is male, I have dominion over him for eight days after his birth, and if female, for twenty days.". (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) An amulet with the names of the angels, and Adam and Eve, excluding Lilith. This promise is expressed in the quote: I, the Lord, heal you, for it is written and the sun of mercy shall rise with healing in its wings for you who fear My Name., A prayer warding off the effects of cholera morbus, Italy, 19th century, the British Library. Browning focused on Lilith's emotional attributes, rather than that of her ancient demon predecessors.[91]. (Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin 69b). The two were placed sequentially in The House of Life collection (sonnets number 77 and 78).[89]. When Lilith sees their names, she remembers her oath, and the child recovers. Similarly, Lilit would transform into the physical features of the husband, seduce the wife, she would give birth to a child. ~Ari'el Share Australian poet and scholar Christopher John Brennan (18701932), included a section titled "Lilith" in his major work "Poems: 1913" (Sydney: G. B. Philip and Son, 1914). Isa 34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. The amulets contain written text featuring the names of the angels as well as graphic motifs of their images. He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. Lilith and Faust engage in a short dialogue, where Lilith recounts the days spent in Eden. Accordingly, every day one hundred demons perish, and for the same reason, we write the angels' names on the amulets of young children. [83], According to Siegmund Hurwitz the Talmudic Lilith is connected with the Greek Lamia, who, according to Hurwitz, likewise governed a class of child stealing lamia-demons. gone , were inscribed. [103] Dion Fortune writes, "The Virgin Mary is reflected in Lilith",[104] and that Lilith is the source of "lustful dreams". The sound warns Lilith and gives her pause, making clear that she should not approach the mother and her newborn children. Lilith is also mentioned in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. Lamia bore the title "child killer" and was feared for her malevolence, like Lilith. Amsterdam, circa 1700. As such, she would kill a pregnant mother's baby in the womb, causes impotence to men or attacks little children with illnesses. A similar set of charges appears in Genesis Rabbah 17:8, according to which Eve's creation from Adam's rib rather than from the earth makes her inferior to Adam and never satisfied with anything. In this case Asmodeus and Lilith were believed to procreate demonic offspring endlessly and spread chaos at every turn. Below it, were the names of the primogenitors: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Leah. -------------------------------- The same goes for the story of Lilith as the first woman, and her escape from Adam. Nebuchadnezzar sets forth various ordeals for Ben Sira, who responds with 22 stories. A similar version, related to the earlier Talmudic passages, recounts how Lilith was fashioned with the same substance as Adam was, shortly before. The Geneva Bible of William Whittingham (1587) from the Hebrew: Isa 34:14 and the screech owl shall rest there, and shall finde for her selfe a quiet dwelling. Four guests protect Smamit from the demon; the names of three of them are Soney, Sosoney and Senigly. The condition was that Lilith promised that she would not touch any child that had an amulet inscribed with the angels' names. The two twin androgynous couples resembled each other and both "were like the image of Above"; that is, that they are reproduced in a visible form of an androgynous deity. A 15th or 16th century Kabbalah text states that God has "cooled" the female Leviathan, meaning that he has made Lilith infertile and she is a mere fornication. He also created a woman from the earth, as He had created Adam ), Ebeling, Erich; Meissner, Bruno; Edzard, Dietz Otto. Who's that there?Mephistopheles: God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. The names of the three angels as well as those of Lilith and Satan, also appear. Double amulets were frequently purchased: two This amulet was written on parchment. To prevent Lilith and Samael's demonic children Lilin from filling the world, God castrated Samael. Two organisations that use initiations and magic associated with Lilith are the Ordo Antichristianus Illuminati and the Order of Phosphorus. Second, this new woman is still met with harsh rabbinic allegations. A few lines in Yiddish are followed by the dialogue between the prophet Elijah and Lilith when he met her with her host of demons to kill the mother and take her new-born child ('to drink her blood, suck her bones and eat her flesh'). [104], This article is about the Jewish religious figure Lilith. These talismans invoke the names of the angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, or sometimes the prophet Elijah, in order to protect young children from the grasp of Lilith. [101] A different approach to a Satanic Lilith holds that she was once a fertility and agricultural goddess. The lamiae, the strigae, the sorcerers whom they accused of sucking the blood of living people, and of thus causing their death, the magicians who were said to cause the death of new-born children by charms and malignant spells, are nothing less than what we understand by the name of vampires; even were it to be owned that these lamiae and strigae have really existed, which we do not believe can ever be well proved. In every place where a man sleeps alone in a house, she visits him and grabs him and attaches herself to him and has her desire from him, and bears from him. Frankfort and Kraeling identified the figure in the relief with Lilith. This monstrous couple was apparently first brought together in the 13th century, their combined powers allowing them to rule the realm of impurity. she said. All who go to her cannot return Vladimir Nabokov "Collected Poems" edited and introduced by Thomas Karshan, Penguin Books, c2012. She was notorious for being a vampiric spirit and loved sucking men's blood. In the Zohar, however, Lilith is said to have succeeded in begetting offspring from Adam even during their short-lived sexual experience. (Babylonian Talmud on Tractate Shabbath 151b), "R. Jeremiah b. Eleazar further stated: In all those years [130 years after his expulsion from the Garden of Eden] during which Adam was under the ban he begot, This page was last edited on 17 February 2023, at 22:22. Tractate Niddah in the Mishnah is the only tractate from the Order of Tohorot which has Talmud on it. These amulets are mentioned in the Ben Sirah, and in fact, the story probably exists to give a more religious justification for the otherwise pretty superstition-and-magic . If you placed an amulet with the name of the 3 Angels on it, and placed it on the baby, lilith could not harm it. angels and Lilith is the basis for writing the names Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semange-lof on amulets hung around the necks of new-born babes: when Lilith sees the names, she remembers her . Others base their reverence for her on her history as a succubus and praise her as a sex goddess. [36][37], Eberhard Schrader (1875)[38] and Moritz Abraham Levy (1855)[39] suggest that Lilith was a demon of the night, known also by the Jewish exiles in Babylon. However, they are defeated by Methuselah, who slays thousands of them with a holy sword and forces Agrimas to give him the names of the rest, after which he casts them away to the sea and the mountains.[68]. After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, 'It is not good for man to be alone' (Genesis 2:18). A number of the poems feature Lilith directly, including the piece Unwritten which deals with the spiritual problem of the feminine being removed by the scribes from The Bible. Moss. For instance, Isaiah, describing the condition to which Babylon was to be reduced after her ruin, says that she shall become the abode of satyrs, lamiae, and strigae (in Hebrew, lilith). (13) Her castles shall be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. (In English: Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof). Angelic FoeOppressed By the Heavens PrikosnovenieReleased on: 2013-04-30Author: Angelic FoeCom. [49] Moses said: [God,] do not do it [i.e. This is why one hundred of Lilith's demon children die every day and why the names of the three angels, Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, written on an amulet, protect people from her evil influence. Adam stood in prayer before his Creator: 'Sovereign of the universe!' he said, 'the woman you gave me has run away.' At once, the Holy One, blessed be He, sent these three angels Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, to bring her back. In the Dead Sea Scrolls, among the 19 fragments of Isaiah found at Qumran, the Great Isaiah Scroll (1Q1Isa) in 34:14 renders the creature as plural liliyyot (or liliyyoth). Another version[69] that was also current among Kabbalistic circles in the Middle Ages establishes Lilith as the first of Samael's four wives: Lilith, Naamah, Eisheth, and Agrat bat Mahlat. Such stories are commonly found among Jewish folklore.[64]. So tempting! First and foremost, the very introduction of Lilith to the creation story rests on the rabbinic myth, prompted by the two separate creation accounts in Genesis 1:12:25, that there were two original women. After a while, Lilith returned to the Garden of Eden but found that Adam had another partner, Eve. The demon(ess) is entirely static.[52]. [51], An individual Lilith, along with Bagdana "king of the lilits", is one of the demons to feature prominently in protective spells in the eighty surviving Jewish occult incantation bowls from Sassanid Empire Babylon (4th6th century AD) with influence from Iranian culture. Likewise, women who undergo wilful abortion, and those who support this practice are "seen in the sphere of Lilith". British poet John Siddique's 2011 collection Full Blood has a suite of 11 poems called The Tree of Life, which features Lilith as the divine feminine aspect of God. [55] The writing is most commonly scripture or references to the Talmud. Two magical incantations against the evil eye. And soft-shed kisses and soft sleep shall snare? [5] Many traditional rabbinic authorities, including Maimonides and Menachem Meiri, reject the existence of Lilith. Adam complained to God: 'I have been deserted by my helpmeet' God at once sent the angels Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof to fetch Lilith back. 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