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Yes, Egyptian Dieties are Daemons and Vampyres, but, Sekhmet is not the first vampyre.

Lilith was. But the name Lilith has been changed over the ages, yet, in the different world ages she still reigns supreme as the first vampyre. just called different names in Akkadian, Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Hebrew, Jewish etc..




The vampire is usually a revived corpse or quasi-living being that maintains its existence by drinking human blood. Some experts assert that the vampire originated in ancient Egypt or India, but those connections are tenuous. The first creatures that actually fit the modern description of vampires appear in the surviving writings from the Fertile Crescent, in texts from Assyria in the north and the Akkadian and Babylonian empires in the south, as well as in documents of the earliest known Mesopotamian civilization, Sumeria.

Assyria, on the upper Tigris River, in what is now northern Iraq and parts of Syria, endured from about 2400 to 600 bce and was ruled from Assur (or Ashur). The Assyrians adopted beliefs from their Sumerian predecessors, including belief in two classes of demons with vampire-like tendencies: the ekimmu and the utukku. The ekimmu were the angry spirits of persons dead but unburied, prowling the earth until they found rest beneath the ground—a characteristic phase of the traditional vampire.

An utukku was sometimes hard to distinguish from the ekimmu, but generally it was the spirit of a deceased person who had been buried but forgotten, not honored with offerings at its tomb by family or loved ones. As a result, the utukku returns from the underworld to haunt whomever it encounters, seeking sustenance from its victims. Like the vampire of Eastern Europe, this creature is a persistent haunter that is very difficult to dislodge. Sometimes the utukku are blood-drinkers, while at other times they are said to imbibe the human life-force. While they are most often malevolent, on occasion they can be allies, and such an utukku appears as Ea-Bani, friend of Gilgamesh.

A particularly vivid description of a group of thoroughly evil, vampire-like utukku known as the Seven Spirits appears in a 3000-year-old Assyrian cuneiform incantation:

Seven are they!
Knowing no care,
They grind the land like corn;
Knowing no mercy,
They rage against mankind;
They spill their blood like rain,
Devouring their flesh [and] sucking their veins....
They are demons full of violence,
Ceaselessly devouring blood.

Translator R. Campbell Thompson, in his authoritative Semitic Magic, says the Seven Spirits’“predilection for human blood … is in keeping with all the traditions of the grisly mediaeval Vampires.” Thompson notes that these Seven Spirits reappear later in both Palestinian and Syriac magic spells. A Syriac charm from Christian times quotes the Seven as saying: “We go on our hands, so that we may eat flesh, and we crawl along upon our hands, so that we may drink blood.” But the Assyrian incantations and their successors make it clear that vampirism was but one characteristic of these demons that also traveled with storms, like wind demons, and that ate flesh, like Arabian ghouls.

Earlier than the Seven Spirits were the blood-sucking vampire-demons of Sumeria. A manuscript recording the kings and dynasties of Sumer, dating from about 2400 bce, asserts that the father of the Sumerian hero Gilgamesh was in fact a Lillu-demon. This Lillu was one of four demons in a class of vampires: The other three were Lilitu (manifested in later Hebrew tradition as Lilith), the female version of the vampire demon; Ardat Lilli (or Lilitu’s handmaid), who visited men at night and bore them ghostly children; and Irdu Lilli (Ardat Lilli’s male counterpart), who would visit women at night and make them pregnant. Lilitu was believed to be a beautiful, promiscuous vampire, similar to some 21st-century literary versions, partial to the blood of children, infants and young men. From Sumer, Babylonians and eventually Hebrews adopted versions of these legends, and similar traditions developed in northern Mesopotamia.

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Let's talk Vampyres

By now you are probably wondering if vampyres are real. Now you are probably wondering why I misspelled the word "Vampire"...

Guess what?

We are very real and no, I did not misspell the word Vampyre. It can be spelled in the common tongue, "Vampyre" or "Vampyr". Common tongue being English mind you. But let's start with the more familiar term.

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Vampires are frequently represented in popular culture, including appearances in ballet, films, literature, music, opera, theatre, paintings, and video games.

There is an entire genre of literature dedicated to vampires.

Though there are many creative variations and depictions of vampires, fundamentally "a vampire" is defined as a being in which consumes / drinks blood as a primary source of sustenance.

Thanks to popular books and movies, the vampyre, has turned into a joke and now turning into its own cultural fad. Everyone wants to be one. A beautiful, immortal, marble, blood sucking vampire- shiny or not.

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[BC]Misconceptions Unraveled

[IU]1. Do we drink Blood?

Some do, yes, but; do we need to? No. Blood drinking is preference. Some of us use animal blood in our cooking to help supplement what the body is lacking.

According to modern psychology and scientific research, no human needs to drink blood to survive. The physical risks of contracting bloodborne diseases (HIV, Hepatitis, etc.) and legalities (in some places only phlebotomists and medical care professionals can legally draw human blood) are clear concerns.

However, some Vampires known as Sanguines believe they need to drink small quantities of human blood to survive or at least balance their emotional, physical, and spiritual health. Some Sanguines believe drinking blood gives them life-force.

Most Sanguines seek consensual donors and employ strict safety practices like testing for diseases and using highest quality medical safety techniques. Some Sanguine Vampires prefer only to have one donor at a time, using the process as a powerful bonding technique.

[IU]2. Are we Immortal?

My favorite question. Really, it makes me laugh. Again, this is a typical media fantasy. No vampyre is immortal nor is there any type of magick or science or anything that can prolong your life in any fashion.

We all get old. Just like humans.

Everything is alive. Has energy and matter. It is what makes up the universe, realms, you and me and every small creature to every rock.

Energy can be smooth or chaotic as it lies outside structure and time. Energy and matter is the one thing that is constant. It cannot be created or destroyed. Only recycled and renewed.

So, every one of us is made up of energy and matter. You can't truly destroy something into oblivion with no trace, but, it can't remain as it is forever. Energy and matter break down. So we grow old and we die. Our energy and physical traces are returned and the energy distributed elsewhere as that is natures law.

So, are we Immortal or is there anything anywhere that can prolong life and keep us young?

No.

[IU]3. Are there kings and courts and houses of Vampyres?

No. Not anymore. Honestly that was struggling to survive in the Gothic era. Victorian era. There is some of us left yes, but, there really isn't a whole house, coven, court...kingdom of vampyres ruling the underworld.

[IU]4. Can you be turned by being bitten and dying or through magick/necromancy?

No. No. No. And no! Absolutely freaking not!!! You are born a vampyre. What that means is your soul is a vampyre with physical representations and abilities extended of the soul. Your soul can be made up of different things. The vampyre part can use its own energy to pull in or give energy from around it.

[BC]Other fan fiction ideology on vampyres debunked

[U]•Garlic

Love it. Eat it and then you get bad breath. That's all

[U]•Crosses-

Cute. Its a peice of wood. Toss it in the fire and be warm.

[U]•Getting staked

Yeah. Anyone getting stabbed in the chest will could die. Why would you go around stabbing people? Psycho

[U]•The bite of a werewolf can kill you.

Well any bite from a animal can hurt yes and if its got rabies, you can get sick. A werewolf is a myth. You have therians (different wiki) but who goes around randomly biting people they don't like? That'll get you tossed in a straight jacket. Don't do drugs kid. Its bad.

[U]•Can we turn into bats or hell hounds?

Are you high or just dumb. Whatever you got share! No. We cannot turn into anything. We don't have fangs, pointy ears or nasty ass long gnarly fingernails.

[U]•Do we have super abilities?

Wouldn't that be awesome 😎 No. We do however have heightened senses. Mind you, its not some super human ability. Its just an extra oomph.

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[BC]Do Vampires Actually Feed?

Yes. Unawakened and Awakened Vampires must feed on vital life-force to fulfill their energy Needs. Unawakened feed unconsciously and without training or discipline, draining those around them emotionally.

Vampires are human beings with a higher energetic need for vital life-force (Chi, Prana, Mana, Ki) than the average human. If this Need goes unfulfilled, the Vampire experiences lower states of spiritual, physical, and emotional wellbeing. In order to sate this need, one must learn ethical techniques of gathering excess energy (called “feeding”). Vampires are usually divided into psychic (energy) and sanguine (blood) categories, but this often leads to misconceptions. A better terminology separates them into awakened and unawakened. All Vampires can practice just energy feeding.

[IU]What is an Awakening?

Awakening is the revelation and understanding of one's nature as a Vampire, and also of his or her Need. Most Vampires are not born Awakened; they must have a revelation, accident, or experience to trigger the first stages of Awakening. The Awakening is not a singular event, but a cumulative process of smaller awakenings as the Vampire develops and learns. Being newly Awakened can be a difficult time and is often a solitary journey.

Awakened and properly trained Vampires learn to feed ethically and with discipline. There are three basic levels of feeding: Ambient, Surface and Deep. Sanguine or blood feeding is a technique not a level of feeding.

[IU]Sanguine Vampyrism

Sanguine (blood) is a deep feed and always has major risks. This method is often used by Vampires undisciplined in the three energetic (psi) feeding techniques.

[IU]Ambient feeding

draws from life-force radiated in a cloud around a group of people (a concert, sporting event, busy city street, night club, or shopping mall).

[IU]Surface / Tactile feeding

draws from the outer layers of a donor’s aura and is not invasive. It can be done by touch or even at a distance.

[IU]Deep feeding

taps the core of a donor’s energy body and requires consent. It can be done through sex or using reiki-like techniques. Deep feeding usually creates strong links between the Vampire and donor, which may be undesirable.

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I hope this answers questions you may have if you are considering that you may be a vampire. One more note.

[BC]Lifestylers

Lifestylers are individuals who embrace and incorporate the Vampire archetype into their lifestyle. Some are Unawakened or Awakened Vampires, yet most are not. Many are also Black Swans. These love the Vampire aesthetic and embrace elements of the mythology in their lifestyle, fashion, and mannerisms. Like the goths, they have their own subculture, social codes, events, and gatherings.

Like the known "associations" or "houses" such as this one.

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