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a Myth a Day / A - Z Challenge: @ibuzoo vs @lxcuna
[ A ] khkhazu : a demon from Akkadic mythology, also called “the seizer”. Her Sumerian name is Dimme-kur. She brings fever and plagues, and is a member of a trio of female demons including Labasu and Labartu.
@hynpos myth event — Day 13: Favorite Mesopotamian/Sumerian deity
Adad — God of Weather, Hurricanes, Storms, Thunder and Rain. | His Sumerian counterpart is known as Iškur.
Mythology Around the World: Common Themes:
Queens
Ereshkigal, Mesopotamian Goddess of the World Below, the Land of No Return and ruler of the Realm of Death
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Mythology Meme: 3/3 - Mythological Places : Irkalla
The Sumerian netherworld was a place for the bodies of the dead to exist after death, ruled by Ereshkigal. One passed through the seven gates on their journey through the portal to the netherworld leaving articles of clothing and adornment at each gate. There was a guardian at each gate to extract a toll for one’s passage and to keep one from going the wrong way. The living spirits of the dead are only spoken of in connection with this netherworld when someone has been placed here before they are dead or wrongly killed and can be saved. The bodies of the dead decompose in this afterlife, as they would in the world above.
Al Basti (Turkish : Albastı) or Al Kardai is an ancient female spirit, the personification of guilt, found in folklore throughout the Caucasus mountains, with origins going as far back as Sumerian mythology.
In Turkish folklore Al Basti has been often confused as both a Mare, a Succubus, as well as any number of Middle Eastern female spirits which are told to enter a man’s erotic dreams. However, the difference in the Al Basti legends is that she is not a sexual spirit, she rather visits those “who have guilty souls” and “come from families that have committed bloody crimes that have gone unpunished.”
MYTHOLOGY MEME - [1/?] MESOPOTAMIAN GODS/GODDESSES: ERESHIGAL
"She slapped her thigh and bit her lip.
She took the matter into her heart
and dwelt on it.”
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