Aḫḫazu
Aḫḫāzu ( Achchaßu ; Sumerian Dimmekur ), the packer is a demon from Sumerian and Akkadian mythology . It causes fever and plague and is part of the demonic fever triad ( Labasu , Lamaštu and Aḫḫazu). Aḫḫazu is also often described as a female demon.
literature
- Helmut Freydank u. a .: Lexicon of the Old Orient. Egypt * India * China * Western Asia. VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-928127-40-3 .
- Brigitte Groneberg : The gods of the Mesopotamia. Cults, myths, epics. Artemis & Winkler, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7608-2306-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Daxelmüller and Marie-Louise, Magic of Images in Ancient Mesopotamia. Anthropos 77 / 1-2, 1982, 39