Tanin'iver (compd. of Heb. תַנִין, "dragon" + עִוֵר, "sightless" — the "blind dragon") is an evil cosmic entity described in Kabbalistic writings, such as the Treatise on the Left Emanation and the Zohar. He is the steed of Lilith, so he is considered a mechanism by which evil is activated.[1][2] Though Tanin'iver is castrated (echoing a fable about the Yetzer ha-Ra), he is still the catalyst for the coupling of Lilith with Samael, a union that brings pestilence into the world.[3]
References
edit- ^ Dan, Joseph (1986). The Early Kabbalah. Classics of Western Spirituality. Paulist Press. p. 180. ISBN 9780809127696.
- ^ Allen, Wayne (2021). Thinking about Good and Evil: Jewish Views from Antiquity to Modernity. JPS Essential Judaism). Jewish Publication Society. p. 151. ISBN 978-0827614710.
- ^ Dennis, Geoffrey (2007). The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism. Llewellyn Worldwide. p. 254. ISBN 9780738709055.
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