Meg Thee Stallion & Lilith, the Original Hot Girl ❤️🔥🐍👹 A Comparative Analysis
wisdom from ancient and modern dark divine feminine
In what is very very dark and dystopian times, I assert that there is, there has to be, Wisdom we can carve out from our Pain, Grief, and Darkness.
Especially in the last month when I feel like Kali has been dancing through my life and the Collective’s, with earth-shattering destruction and pain, my natural reaction is to want to melt into a weeping puddle, squeeze my squishmellow, and never leave my bed.
But someone’s been reminding me
To embody Wisdom in the Dark
To embrace the messy, gross, ooey gooey process of Transformation
To stand ten toes down in my Bad Bitch energy
To alchemize PAIN into POWER
To the Woman who made HOT GIRL SHIT a state of mind -
With a bombastic lyrical flow that that puts the rap game to shame -
A fellow Aquarius, the Hot Girl Coach, Tina Snow, Ms. Nasty,
MEGAN THEEE MOTHAFUCKIN STALLION 🐍🌀😈
Meg’s newest single Cobra 🐍 has been imprinted in MY BRAIN. The lyrics alone speak so piercingly accurately to the darkness of a Pit of Despair:
Ayy, damn I got problems
Never thought a bitch like me would ever hit rock bottom,
Man, I miss my parents,
Way too anxious, always cancel my plans
Pulled up, caught him cheatin’
Getting his dick sucked in the same spot I’m sleeping
Lord, give me a break
I don’t know much more of this shit I can take
🔪🔪🔪😫😭😤🤬 PROTECT MEG AT ALL COSTS.
The serpent 🐍 is one of the primordial symbols of the divine feminine. We see spirals in early cave paintings honoring the life-death-life cycles of creation and destruction of Mother Nature. As the Serpent sheds its skin a few times in its life, it is also associated with transformation and healing.
Of course, the Serpent was re-branded with the rise Patriarchal Judeo-Christianity and with Adam and Eve’s myth, the Serpent becomes associated with Evil, Poison, a sign of Death. Something to be Feared.
The Dark Feminine Serpent’s tale then is a fitting allegory for the story of Megan Jovon Ruth Pete, who grew up in Houston raised by a triumverate of strong, loving, encouraging women - her mother (with a rap career of her own!), grandmother and great-grandmother.
At the age of 15 she loses her father. At 24, right when her career was taking off, she loses her mother and grandmother in the same month.1
After these signifcant losses at such a young age, Meg channels her grief into her music and work ethic.
And while her star and commercial success rose, the misogynoir followed.
In 2020, Megan survived a shooting where both her feet got injured. But as if that event wasn’t traumatic enough, because of the perpetrator’s rap career of his own, everyone from media outlets (always shameless) to peers in her industry (😫🔪), were doubting her story, mocking her, slut-shaming, and victim-blaming Megan.2
In an absurd twist, but one as old as time, mainstream culture re-brands the victim in the situation as the liar, a slut, a trouble-maker, and deserving of the pain and backlash she’s been on the receiving end of.
Also See: Megan Thee Stallion and the Catch-22 for Black women who seek Justice from the 19th
From her 2022 album Traumazine to her newest single Cobra, Meg brings new nuance to the Strong Black Woman stereotype by standing beautifully, boldly, and vulnerably in the pain that’s made her.
The depression, the grief, the Anxiety - she owns it all, even writing personal essays on what she’s learned through the experience and how it connects to the violence Black women struggle against systemically.
Bad Bitches Have Bad Days. And Bad Bitches also deserve to be safe, loved, protected, healed, and to be able to stand exuberantly in their power, like Meg models for us 🥲
Like the phoenix rises out of the ashes, Meg spins the shit in her life into gold, over and over and over again, demonstrating the regenerative and transformative power of the Dark Feminine 🌀🐍😈 And she does it while enduring a smear campaign, not unlike the Biblical mythology of Lilith:
Brush up on the history and evolution of the Goddess:
The Lilith archetype is one of the most ancient and broad as She shows up across time, space, and culture in various forms. Starting from ancient Babylonian and Sumerian lore (4000 years ago) to being the first Woman and Wife to Adam (👀 not Eve!!!) in Jewish tradition. She is also associated with Medusa, Hecate, and Kali. In the Christian tradition, she is the Serpent, the original seductress and first evil mankind faces, through her tempting of Adam and Eve to taste the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.3
Lilith and the few other women in Biblical and Jewish texts, such as the African Queen of Sheba or Queen Vashti in the book of Esther, are portrayed as dark, insolent, disobedient, succubus baby-eating demons. While others, like Mary Magdalene and Eve, become the light and “accepted” version of the feminine.
See also: The Madonna Whore Complex which emerged as a trauma response to Man’s Fear of Death
Lilith’s most famous and original myth is found in the Jewish Talmud. As it goes, Eve and Adam are created out of the same dirt together, meaning EQUAL in their creation.4
But ah, trouble in paradise.
The couple is in a funk - neither happy nor understanding each other. Adam, with very classic little-d energy, demands subservience from his First Wife. But they’ve been made Equal by God. So Lilith is not about that life.
IN FACT, it was that She wanted to be ON TOP when they slept together, that provokes Adam to physically try to overpower and dominate Her.
RATHER THAN STAY WITH THE BUM, Lilith grabs wings and dramatically screeches into the sky, flying as far as she can Adam and settling on the shore of the Red Sea where she becomes the HBIC 👑 and Mother of all Demons 👹5
Eve is later fashioned from Adam’s rib and re-branded as The First Woman.
Naturally, feminist interpretations of the Lilith myth are delicious, juicy, and filled with Wisdom.
Woman’s Original Nature is Light *and* Dark, just like Life *and* Death are that of Mother Nature’s 🌎
This integrated Divine Feminine’s Nature is Chaotic, Empowered, Sexual, Mystical, Transformative, Healing.
Lilith rejects Shame that is not Her own. Lilith asserts Her boundaries, knows Her worth, screeches through her big feelings, and finds safety in solitude.
Lilith, Meg Thee Stallion, and the Dark Feminine have much to teach us 🖤👹😈🐍✨
The Knowing in our Bones - our sense of Self-Worth and Intuition
Sacred Sexuality as a source of personal Power, activated through movement, dance, and creative expression6
To survive, break cycles of violence, and fight for freedom
To reclaim Disobedience and “being bad” as tools for Liberation
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WE LOVE YOU MEGAN!!!! 👹🦅❤️🔥
💌 Coming This Week : Dancing with Darkness series continues as we explore Honoring the Dark Feminine through Dance, Mad Liberation & A Portrait of Kali, and how you might Work with the Dark Goddess