Goetic and Cross-Cultural Alternatives for Women's Empowerment: Source-Specific Functions, Robust Choice, and Bounded Practice

Choosing an alternative to Lilith requires specifying the function and relationship being sought. An inherited predatory portrayal, a feminist narrative reconstruction, and an effectively maintained modern formation pose different comparative questions. This paper distinguishes those three targets and evaluates six Goetic candidates—Buné, Foras, Ronové, Gremory, Naberius, and Orobas—alongside Freyja, Inanna/Ištar, and Pazuzu. Historical attributes, modern authorial interpretations, and contrary acts receive the same source-sensitive scrutiny. Theories I–IV explain the distinction between bearer, expression, interface, support, and maintained formation; TGAR connects those distinctions to giving, consent, and ending. A complete qualitative model separates documentary coverage, attributed capacity, conditional fit, and realized effects. Ten proposition groups establish comparison under nonempty incomplete profiles, exact function-set certificates, correlated scenarios, priority changes, finite frontiers, observation-dependent choice, and full-history contracts. Six complete contemporary designs develop reasoning, reciprocal communication, resource administration, chosen refusal, accountable standing, and directed protection. Their comparison preserves modern Lilith as a serious option and yields differentiated preferences rather than a universal replacement. Source choice becomes a choice of function, recipient hypothesis, acceptable relationship, and complete operational contract.