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Lamashtu is a demon lord and the goddess of monsters, called the Mother of Beasts and Mistress of Insanity, in the role-playing game setting Pathfinder. Lamashtu appears as a character in the NBC television series Constantine in the episode "The Saint of Last Resorts".
Inanna [a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power.Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar [b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯).
A characteristic frequently attributed to Nanaya as a goddess of love, present in the majority of royal inscriptions pertaining to her and in many other documents, was described with the Sumerian word ḫili [17] and its Akkadian equivalent kubzu, which can be translated as charm, luxuriance, voluptuousness or sensuality. [18]
Epithet Location Notes Akuṣitum Akus [29]: Akuṣitum (also spelled Akusitum) was the epithet of Inanna as the goddess of Akus, attested in royal inscriptions of the Manāna dynasty near Kish, in a later religious text pertaining to the deities of that city, in the god list An = Anum (tablet IV, line 134), and in the name of one of the gates of Babylon.
Other Mesopotamian demons such as the Babylonian goddess Lamashtu, (Sumer's Dimme) and Gallu of the Uttuke group are mentioned as having vampiric natures. [11] [12] Lamashtu is a historically older image that left a mark on the figure of Lilith. [13]
Pazuzu was invoked in apotropaic amulets, which combat the powers of his rival, [33] the malicious goddess Lamashtu, who was believed to cause harm to mother and child during childbirth. He would protect humans against any variety of misfortune or plague. [34]
Aleksota, Lithuanian goddess of love Anala Mons 525 (1) Anala , Hindu fertility goddess. Name changed from Anala Corona. ... Lamashtu , Sumerian goddess who inflicted ...
Nanaya (a goddess of love) and Lamma (minor tutelary goddesses) were the only other female deities depicted similarly, [54] though Gula was represented on kudurru more commonly then them. [55] Many figurative depictions of her are also known from Neo-Assyrian seals, on which she is the most commonly appearing goddess. [56]