Pazuzu
Sign in to savethumb|This Assyrian bronze statuette of Pazuzu is in height, from the early 1st millennium BC, held at the Louvre Museum.
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Function
- Pazuzu as domestic protector deity
- Protective objects
- Ritual texts
- Iconography
- Demonic relationships
- Parents and siblings
- Wind demons
- Lamastu
- Bes
- Other protective demons
- In Mesopotamian religion
- History
- Name
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|This Assyrian bronze statuette of Pazuzu is in height, from the early 1st millennium BC, held at the Louvre Museum.
In ancient Mesopotamian religion, Pazuzu () is a demonic deity who was well known to the Babylonians and Assyrians throughout the first millennium BCE. He is shown with "a rather canine face with abnormally bulging eyes, a scaly body, a snake-headed penis, the talons of a bird and usually wings". He was believed to be the son of the god Hanbi.
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