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  Sumerian Gods, Demons and Immortals Whose Names Start with 'L'
Lamashtu was a Sumerian she-demon who preyed on unborn and newborn children.
She had a hairy body, a lion’s head with donkey's teeth and ears, long fingers with long fingernails and the feet of a bird with sharp talons.
She is often shown standing or kneeling on a donkey while nursing a pig and a dog, and holding snakes in her hands.
www.jameswbell.com /geog0050lnames.html   (500 words)

  
 Gods - Explore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lamashtu is an evil demon who preys upon unborn and newborn children.
She is often shown standing or kneeling on a donkey, nursing a pig and a dog, and holding snakes.
Pregnant women often wore amulets of Pazuzu, the demon who fought against Lamashtu.
www.mesopotamia.co.uk /gods/explore/lamashtu.html   (70 words)

  
 NDN 1 Chapter 1 Page 2
Lamashtu snarled again and her claws extended as she prepared to attack, but Valari slithered down his body, the blue serpent growing until she was thicker than his leg.
Lamashtu shrugged and began to feed causing Silvara to sigh in annoyance, "but?" The lioness glanced up and licked the blood from her muzzle before she continued.
Lamashtu finally took matters into her own paws and set about trying to trip Silvara by twining through her legs as she walked.
www.angelfire.com /oh4/ndnrpg/ndn1_ch1_2.html   (19402 words)

  
 Eve and the Identity of Women: 7. Eve & Lilith
As a female demon, she is closely related to Lamashtu whose evilness included killing children, drinking the blood of men, and eating their flesh.
Lilith, Lamashtu, Lamia and other female demons like them are all associated with the death of children and especially with the death of newborn infants.
By inventing evil spirits like Lilith, Lamashtu, and Lamia, parents were not only able to identify the enemy but also to know what they had to guard against.
witcombe.sbc.edu /eve-women/7evelilith.html   (1630 words)

  
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Lilith is also related to Lamashtu, whom Pazuzu made flee back to the Underworld [9].
Lamashtu is a demi-goddess of the Babylonians, known for strangling and drinking the blood of infants [10].
Lamashtu is described as "the Daughter of Heaven," which corresponds to Lilith's creation directly from God.
www.geocities.com /mabcosmic/essays/lsummary.html   (1878 words)

  
 Lamashtu --  Encyclopædia Britannica
A wicked female who slew children and drank the blood of men and ate their flesh, she had seven names and was often described in incantations as the “seven witches.” Lamashtu perpetrated a variety of evil deeds: she disturbed sleep and brought nightmares; she killed…
A wicked female who slew children and drank the blood of men and ate their flesh, she had seven names and was often described in incantations as the “seven witches.” Lamashtu perpetrated a variety of evil deeds: she disturbed sleep and brought nightmares; she...
He was the father not only of all the gods but also of evil spirits and demons, most prominently the demoness Lamashtu, who preyed on...
www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=48014&tocid=0&query=lamashtu&ct=   (336 words)

  
 Mesopotamian Mythology: Listing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Anu is the father of the Annunnaki and has a daughter named Lamashtu.
Lamashtu is depicted as a dreaded female demon.
She is the demon of destruction that carries a double-headed serpent and infects children with diseases.
www.angelfire.com /pa/WoundedDove/mesolist.html   (2191 words)

  
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Lamashtu shreds the fabric that maintains The heavily damaged statue of Eliatha's link to reality.
Lamashtu screams at Seigen, overwhelming him with fear.
The heavily damaged statue of Eliatha cringes as pus flows from fl decaying wounds.Images from The heavily damaged statue of Eliatha's nightmares slam her to the ground.
members.cox.net /gromphe/pk/pk_misc_luckyraid.html   (18114 words)

  
 Book.ie - Son Of Darkness ($1.75 USD, £0.97 GBP)
I really enjoyed this book and hope that someday there'll be a sequel.3Duelling Mythologies never held my attentionThis fantasty about a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art --oops, excuse me--the American Museum of Art, and her artsy friend who happened to be a dark elf left me feeling kind of blah.
Lamashtu, the ancient Mesopotamian lion-headed goddess is conjured from hell to spread plague on the subways of New York.
Once a cult leader fixates on Denise and attempts to offer her as a sacrifice to call an ancient goddess, Ilaron and Denise are thrown into a chaotic, dangerous quest to stop the destruction of this realm.
www.webtropy.com /book/book.aspx?Son+Of+Darkness   (804 words)

  
 The Schoyen Collection: 10. Magical literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
MS in Babylonian on red jasper, Babylonia, 1000-600 BC, 1 plaque, 6,2x4,7x1,2 cm, single column, 10 lines of monumental cuneiform script, 5 illustrations, the main illustration showing the female demon Lamashtu standing on the back of a horse, suckling a piglet and a whelp and with a snake in each hand, with a loop handle.
A likeness of Lamashtu was placed in a little boat together with items of female apparel and offerings to distract her attention.
The model boat was then placed in the swift-flowing Tigris River, and she was borne away to the Underworld, leaving mankind in peace.
www.nb.no /baser/schoyen/5/5.12   (2308 words)

  
 Ancient Times - Babylonian Science and Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
During the time when the Hebrew/Semitic values became popular in the Near East Lamashtu was merged with Lilitu (Akk.) Or Lil (Sum.), a goddess of destructive winds, to produce the Hebrew demon Lilith.
The lion-headed Lamashtu (or Dimme in Sumerian) is a demon who is particularly after pregnant women and those who have just given birth and their newborns.
The other amulet is one which shows the evil wind demon, Pazuzu, who isn't exactly a friend of man, but is a worse enemy of Lamashtu's and will help keep her away from your patient.
ancienttimes.net /cgi-ancienttimes/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=2&topic=8   (2327 words)

  
 U-blog / harakiri / Origines de Lilith (en cours)
La transformation de lamashtu en Lilithu vient du fait que les babyloniens rédigèrent l'épopée de Gilgamesh, roi légendaire d'une cité sumérienne : Uruk.
On donna donc à cette démone le nom déformé du lamashtu, avec les capacités récemment déformées de ce dernier : Kishillilla.
A noter que si l'usage veut que l'on dise UN lamashtu, il semble pourtant s'agir d'un démon femelle.
www.u-blog.net /harakiri/article/Lilith   (648 words)

  
 Sumerian Gods, Demons and Immortals Whose Names Start with 'P'
Because he was demonic in nature, Pazuzu had no worshippers and so he had no known temples or sanctuaries dedicated to him.
However, tradition has it that Pazuzu opposed a demonic goddess named Lamashtu, a goddess who practiced evil for its own sake, slaying babies and bringing disease up from the Netherworld.
Amulets of Pazuzu were worn to fend off Lamashtu.
www.jameswbell.com /geog0050pnames.html   (405 words)

  
 Creation Myth part 2
2 Lamashtu was sore afraid for to be alone was not enough.
Lamashtu saw that the Lullu walked upright, and alive even
30 Mummu, daughter of Lamashtu that was called the Tiamat.
dulakaba.tripod.com /id16.html   (2565 words)

  
 Medical Care, From Sex Through Birth
This fierce, lion-headed demon was Lamashtu (Akkadian) or Dimme (Sumerian), the daughter of Anu (Akk) or An (Sum.).
The caption under the picture of the Lamashtu amulet reads "Amulet depicting the ‘other way' of treating disease: two sorcerers disguised as fish try to induce Lamashtu (the lion-headed goddess) to retreat from the patient, cross the Bitter River, and go back to the world below".
They were kindly provided for me by Ishtarlight from "From Distant Days" by Benjamin R. Foster (Yale University), CDL Press, 1995: "For Use Against Lamashtu" Anu begot her, Ea reared her Elil doomed her a dog's face She is tiny of hands She is long of finger, longer still of nail, Her forearms are...
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/199956   (1105 words)

  
 Mesopotamian Gods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lamashtu- evil demon who preys upon unborn and newborn children.
It had a hairy body with a lioness' head, donkey's teeth and ears, and feet with sharp talons.
Pazuzu- a demon who protects humans against plague and other evil forces (also protected pregnant women from Lamashtu).
www.northmiddle.org /mediacenter/8th_projects/gilgamesh/gilgamesh2.htm   (419 words)

  
 TAARP - The Corridors of Time - 6.4 Phase IV Work Effort
In order to insure that the malevolent aspect of Mesopotamian mythologies is given due consideration, the she-devil Labartu or Lamashtu* will be treated just as thoroughly as any of the beneficent Mesopotamian archetypes are treated.
Sumerian, Babylonian, Canaanite (particularly the Phoenician Canaanite), Hebrew, Christian, and Assyrian mythologies will be canvassed in order to select a feasible number of God forms with which to work that represent a broad range of Mesopotamian archetypes.
The Hebrew menorah, the plaque of Lamashtu presented in Budge's "Amulets and Talismans", and Babylonian boundary stones are a few examples of the kind of objects that will be considered for meditation exercises.
www.alpha-astrophysics.org /TCoT/TCoT_64.htm   (703 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
She was said to be the only one who could control and banish him.
Mesopotamian Incantation Prayer Against Lamashtu Great is the daughter of Heaven who tortures babies
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Lamashtu.
www.mauspfeil.net /Lamashtu.html   (191 words)

  
 Official Linkin Park Message Board - Ion Emotions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lamashtu was a demon who attacked women during their childbirth and stole children while they were breastfeeding.
So I was like cool ill look it up and it was odd, but that was after I started using lamashtu for every forum i go on :P
I see it as saying that you are a beautiful butterfly being contained...by a jar...but maybe theres something really deep in it...I would figure by reading some of your poems WOW.
www.linkinpark.com /forums/showthread.php?t=311655   (2034 words)

  
 RPG Chat - View Single Post - Summoners and their guardians (Romantic, epic - based on Final Fantasy 10)
She was being attacked by a group of Lamashtu," He paused and thought about the first time he had seen her, she seemed so helpless attemtpting to defend herself against these monsters,
Exhausted she was flailing at them with her staff.
He heard a exclamation from Arya but he ignored it, just before the Lamashtu hit he dodged to the side and brought his blade up and across cutting through the fiends entire body.
forums.rpgchat.com /showpost.php?p=1630646&postcount=213   (536 words)

  
 Final Fantasy X - Lamashtu (Mushroom Rock Road) Help   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Final Fantasy X - Lamashtu (Mushroom Rock Road) Help
Final Fantasy X (Squaresoft) - Lamashtu (Mushroom Rock Road)
Return to the Lamashtu (Mushroom Rock Road) index entry
home.flash.net /~rayearle/Sony%20Playstation2/Final%20Fantasy%20X/FFXLamashtu_Strategy.html   (112 words)

  
 vagina dentata
Distinction between mouths and female genitals was blurred by the Greek idea of the laminae -- lustful she-demons, born of the Libyan snake-goddess Lamia.
Their name meant either "lecherous vaginas" or "gluttonous gullets." Lamia was a Greek name for the divine female serpent called Kundalini in India, Uraeus or Per-Uatchet in Egypt, and Lamashtu in Babylon.
Her Babylonian consort was Pazuzu, he of the serpent penis.
www.goddesscafe.com /yoni/dentata.html   (993 words)

  
 The Strange: I’m Not That Criminally Insane
Now, I know what’s going to happen next—someone is going to bring up my first crime, where I carved the arcane symbol of Lamashtu into the foreheads of thirteen murdered prostitutes.
What they won’t tell you, however, is that I had to carve the symbol into their heads in order to appease Lamashtu, “She Who Erases,” lest she rise from the fathomless depths of the leviathan and immolate the earth with her demonic bloodlust.
Chatwin doesn’t want you to know that I was actually working to save lives.
uglyclownpenis.blogspot.com /2005/04/im-not-that-criminally-insane.html   (522 words)

  
 Vagina Dentata   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In the Middle Ages some Christians believed witches could grow fangs in their vaginas.
Lamashtu was a Babylonian goddess whose consort, Pazuzu, had a serpent penis.
The early Jews spoke of the vagina as beth shenayim, the toothed place, and stressed the need for vigilance while entering.
www.rotten.com /library/sex/vagina-dentata   (1696 words)

  
 Alû   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The wicked Etimmu, the wicked Gallû, who bind the body.
The Lamme (Lamashtu), the Lammea (Labasu), who cause disease in the body.
They have come nigh unto a suffering man on the outside.
mywebpages.comcast.net /scottandrewh/alu.html   (302 words)

  
 alt.fan.eddings Daemons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The idea of Agrinja never really took off, and so I haven't bothered to reimplement it.
Lamashtu should really be resurrected, but, for various reasons, I want to wait until the daemons are running on tolhoneth.org before I do that.
Simplest first: Horja checks every day to see if it's the birthday of anyone on the Birthdays List, and if so posts a "Happy Birthday!" message to alt.fan.eddings.
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk /~cjwatson/eddings/daemons   (342 words)

  
 goddess worship UPDATED Apr 2002!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Ninti means Lady of the Rib or Lady who Makes Live (ti meaning rib or to make life) - she is associated with EVE (Hawwah), Mother of All Creation and Pandora.
Lilith (qv) a descendant of Dragon Queen of Creation Tiamat, (Sumerian/Hebrew - wind/night), Adam’s first wife, was debased (like the fabled wicked step-mother, as a warning) in Jewish legend as a succubus; a wind demon; and in BABYLON (Sumer) as a child slaying demon, Lamashtu; although represented by the continuous-life Matrioshka doll-nests in Russia.
It is said that God created her out of the earth like Adam, but she refused to submit to him and fled.
www.geocities.com /Wellesley/8347/goddess.html   (5994 words)

  
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Unfortunately, Lamashtu and Pazuzu do not have their own articles because they are not mentioned in the Bible.
lili:tu - see my BHL, 133) is considered similar in character to the Lamashtu demon, Lamashtu is mentioned briefly in the Lilith article (DDD2, 520-521) and in passing references in a few other articles as well.
The best general overall article that I know for Lamashtu is in the REALLEXIKON DER ASSYRIOLOGIE 6/5-6 (1983), 439-446 by W.
oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/1999/v1999.n128   (6165 words)

  
 Lamashtu - Details for: Esoteric and Occult: Satanism: Demonolatry: Demons: Lamashtu
Lamashtu - Details for: Esoteric and Occult: Satanism: Demonolatry: Demons: Lamashtu
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 Spawn of Possession - Lamashtu - Last.fm
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