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“In modern culture
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Ritual
An Akkadian incantation and ritual against Lamashtu is edited in Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments vol. 2 (1988) .It is glossed as an "incantation to dispel lasting fever and Lamashtu". The prescribed ritual involves a Lamashtu figurine. A sacrifice of bread must be placed before the figurine and water must be poured over it. A black dog must be made to carry the figurine. Then it is placed near the head of the sick child for three days, with the heart of a piglet placed in its mouth. The incantation must be recited three times a day, besides further food sacrifices. At dusk on the third day, the figurine is taken outdoors and buried near the wall.”
Unfortunately I couldn’t find any Sumerian or Akkadian artifacts representing Lamashtu. All I found were Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian and possibly Babylonian; we know how big the mutation took place during this period. So can we trust the iconography on these artifacts as being the original = authentic? I don’t know.
The artifact I’m going to check about Lamashtu is from a much later period called Neo-Assyrian. This is a stereotyped item, as in many of the same item were produced back in the days, like making many amulets of the same. The other artifacts are fragments of the same design but from different damaged artifacts. I’m going to work on the “complete” piece but put the pictures of many fragments from other artifacts. These can be found as Bronze plaques or stone plaques and there can be some small details varying from one artifact to another – but it’s no big deal since the general description is the same standard one for almost all of them.
So here we have a Neo-Assyrian bronze plaque currently displayed at the Louvre. This plaque was titled: Plaque of the Hells – translated from the French: Plaque des Enfers.
When we look at the over artifact from both sides, we will see the demon king Pazuzu depicted on the back side of the plaque. But we see his back side as well on the reverse. When we look at the plaque from the front, we see his head and his hands on top of the upper registers. It gives you the impression it’s a 3 D object with Pazuzu standing behind the plaque and peeking = takin a look to what’s going on, on the front side of the plaque; or simply taking a look to whomever is looking at the plaque. Some even go a bit further in the interpretation and say Pazuzu seem to be holding the plaque as if it’s a carton board with a display scene on it.
There are 4 different scenes = 4 registers displayed on the plaque. They are represented horizontally, one on top of the other, parallel to one another. I’m going to start with the bottom register and move my way up.
The bottom register is the biggest in size. At the center of it, we have Lamashtu represented in her traditional, standard pose with both of her arms bent at the level of the elbow and held up. She is holding a bicephalic serpent in each fist. As explained before, I think these are Lightning and not animals = snakes. This is a symbolic representation of Lightning which is a common practice between Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. She is kneeling with her right knee on what looks like a horse – Main Stream History says it’s a donkey, but no, it’s a horse. This is not a real animal but this represents a heraldic symbol of one specific geographic location. We’ve talked about it before in this thread. Can anons guess which country was always known through history as being the land of the horses? = Yes, it’s Armenia (starting page 10).
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