This is the last and final post on the wives of Samael!
Before, in the post about Eisheth Zenunim, I mentioned how she wasn’t always mentioned with her fellow Queens and I think that might be because some of these myths DON’T consider her as one of the Queens. Instead, They list Mahalath as a wife of Samael. In the last post I said that Moses Cordovero listed Mahalath as a consort of Samael and possibly as the younger Lilith character. So, who is she? In the bible, she is the daughter of Ishmael (the first son of Abraham) and a wife of Esau. Kabbalist texts expand on her story. Ishmael’s mother, Hagar, married him to the daughter of Kasdiel, an Egyptian sorcerer. Ishmael’s father objected to this marriage and they were soon divorced, but not before they conceived a child. The wife was sent back into the desert where she gave birth to a daughter named Mahalath. They roamed the desert for years until Mahalath, now a beautiful woman, caught the eye of the demon Igrathiel. She became pregnant by this demon and gave birth to her daughter, Igrat (Agrat). She then marries Esau but it’s assumed that didn’t work out either and she became a Queen of Hell. (#goals ) Which brings us to my favorite segment: Making Connections That May or May Not Have Any Relevance But Are Fun Anyway! (We’ll come up with a catchier title later). If Mahalath is “Lilith the Younger”, that would make her the wife of Asmodeus. Asmodeus, as mentioned before, was captured by King Solomon. King Solomon’s heir was his son Rehoboam. Rehoboam had a wife named Mahalath (possibly the same character). The mother of Rehoboam was named Naamah, the same name as the 2nd wife of Samael, the mother of Asmodeus!