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There are 3 notables from the Pazuzu Wikipedia page. I’m going to check all of them; some digging tunnels lead in different directions than others and are LONG. My first stop is going to be Humbaba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbaba
“In Ancient Mesopotamian religion, Humbaba (𒄷𒌝𒁀𒁀 Assyrian spelling), also spelled Huwawa (𒄷𒉿𒉿 Sumerian spelling) and surnamed the Terrible, was a monstrous giant of immemorial age raised by Utu, the Sun. Humbaba was the guardian of the Cedar Forest, where the gods lived, by the will of the god Enlil, who "assigned [Humbaba] as a terror to human beings. Gilgamesh and Enkidu defeated this great enemy."
>>Humbaba was raised by the Sun as in he is a child of the Sun, just like Viracocha was. He is a giant as in big in size just like Viracocha was. He is said to be some type of monster, but this also reminds me of how Viracocha used to hide his face behind a mask; always making me wonder why he did that. He was of immemorial age as in he was incredibly old = he was of antediluvian age = as in he was not hundreds but thousands of years old. I want to attract anons attention to this specific point = living for many thousands of years not a few decades like we humans do nowadays. This is a common point in many myths and legends worldwide where it is said that people or deities used to live for an extremely long time and not just a few decades, mostly live to be a hundred years old. So what happened to change that? How did we get from living for so long to living for so short? Think about it anons.
Enlil assigned Humbaba as a guarding of the Cedar Forest. Humbaba was a terror and danger to mankind. I want to remind anons that it was the same Enlil that conspired with other gods and plotted the destruction of mankind. Anyone apart me find Enlil a human hating deity? We have Enlil (as well as the other gods from Mesopotamia) sometimes portrayed in a good light and sometimes portrayed in a bad light.
I think this is due to 2 factors:
1 – The texts that we have in our hands nowadays are incomplete = fragments and we have big chunks of them missing.
2 – Starting from the Akkadian period and mostly the Assyrian and the Babylonian period, huge misinterpretation occurred of many Mesopotamian deities, mixing their image and mixing the bad with the good; which ended up in projecting this double take, confusing image we currently have of them. Like Enlil, was he a ThunderBird, was he a Horned Serpent or was he a Traitor ThunderBird? I’ve been unable to see through many of the Mesopotamian gods; as in unable to decide which side they are on because of this confusion.
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