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Photographer: Fading Grace Photography
Model: Lovely Lady Kissa
Taken at the Academy APART/Pazuzu group shoot
Intended to be hung over the patient's bed, this plaque afforded protection from the terrible female demon Lamashtu, who appears on the front. She was believed to cause many illnesses. Her husband Pazuzu, shown on the back, is invoked to persuade her to go away and thus speed the patient's recovery. ... . In the upper register, symbols represent the great cosmic gods that are invoked to heal the sick person: the sun of Shamash, the crescent moon of Sin, the lightning bolt of the storm god Adad, and the winged disc of Ashur, the supreme god of the Assyrian Empire. The seven spirits in the second register, each with a different animal's head, probably have a beneficial function: they seem to be symbolically guarding the door of the patient's bedchamber. The patient is in the third register, lying on a high bed surrounded by two figures dressed in fish skins like the spirits associated with Ea, god of the depths and wisdom. ... The causes of the illness appear in the lower register. Lamashtu, sitting on a donkey in a boat, is twice as big as all the other characters. The gifts and provisions at the side of the scene are meant to encourage her to set off on her journey back to the underworld.. Pazuzu is standing behind Lamashtu, with one arm raised. Even though his gesture may seem threatening and, with his scaly winged body, dragon's head, scorpion's tail, and talons, he is physically as fearsome as his spouse, he is nonetheless there to protect the patient by coaxing his wife to retreat. Pazuzu is again seen looming up above the scene clinging on to the back of the plaque.
Album cover for Finnish psychedelic black metal band Oranssi Pazuzu. CD-label. www.myspace.com/oranssipazuzu
From the first millennium BCE out of the West as intoned by Assyrian and Babylonian voices up from an underworld comes Pazuzu to an art gallery, page or screen near you. He is called a demon by those that seek to find the darkness in life and should you wish to read beyond his current lurid reputation it maybe that his role as a protector brings a new light to bear on Pazuzu? He was seen as the destructive force behind the winds that wreaked great havoc and in the presiding mind-set of his believers they also related to him as the best defence against those winds.
Pazuzu is sometimes described as the King of the Winds and his particular control is of the west and south-west winds. To the Assyrian and Babylonians the winds out of the west and south-west brought famine, storms and locusts. If asking the source of the storms to calm down was possible in our ancestor’s perception then it seems reasonable to suggest that Pazuzu and others like him were not purely malevolent entities, or entirely evil spirits in the way we see demons today. The power to do good in Pazuzu’s character enabled him to be chosen for use as an amulet where his likeness was used to ward off evil.
His image is found in small full figure statues. His image may not have been created in a larger size to avoid attracting too much attention from and underworld entity. His potency to wreak havoc was also his key to warding off evil, but it maybe that calling upon him was considered a dangerous way to maintain a safe haven. Honouring his potency in a small statue was maybe enough to show him that you were giving him due attention. The fear of unduly attracting Pazuzu’s attention with a large representation is not in evidence if you take in Roberto Cuoghi’s 6 metre fibre glass sculpture of the demon god in, or outside of an art gallery.
Pazuzu has come to great attention of late in the book and several film versions of the Exorcist. He has continued to grab limelight and character space in cartoons and comics. A helpful version of him was shown fulfilling wishes in the animated sitcom Futurama. From the pages of Constantine the graphic novel Pazuzu has gone on to feature in the TV Series with the same name. In the trailer for, “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” there is a large statue of Pazuzu seen being toppled by an explosion. However you set up Pazuzu there is a chance to see his light from above and to let that cast his shadows into the dark below.
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One option would be to storm Mane Manor with the help of the city guard and mercenaries, but that also means we won't learn, what is going on here. What we saw below the city doesn't look like the work of Pazuzu, an entity that is said to have created the Kenku. In another tale, though, it is the entity, that took away the Kenku's power of flight, which they once had. Either way: This would be the second demonic influence we see in this city. Shadowdale isn't that big and important, and there's no obvious reason, why the layer to the abyss should be so thin here of all places.
We opt for plan B: Kerrick shall deliver the brain. Like this, he can keep an eye on the cult, and we can maybe learn more. He isn't happy about it, and even tries to just leave the jar in front of the door, but before he knows what's going in, he is back in the basement, where lady Tara has already prepared a big cauldron. "Throw the brain in here."
We often like to place our baby in locations which has caused mental anguish to many people.
Don't you?
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Authorities who accused Amber Nicole Burch, 27, first found themselves investigating a link to possible satanic ritual and sacrifice after the bones of two missing men, Joshua Wetzler, 32, and Tommy Welch, 31, were discovered in 2014 behind the red-bricked Clemmons home where Burch had lived with her boyfriend, Pazuzu Illah Algarad, and his mother. - Amber Nicole Burch pleaded guilty after 2014 discovery of missing mens’ bones in backyard from www.pinterest.com/pin/368310075764009520/