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Lamashtu
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Lamashtu

In Mesopotamian religion, the most terrible of all female demons. The daughter of the sky god Anu, Lamashtu killed children, consumed human flesh and blood, blighted plants, spoiled rivers and streams, sent nightmares, caused miscarriages, and brought disease. She had seven names and was often described in incantations as “seven witches.” She was portrayed on amulets as a lion- or bird-headed female figure kneeling on an ass, holding a double-headed serpent in each hand and suckling dogs or pigs at her breasts.
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She urges the Countess, "from whose desires did spring this worke of Grace" (12), to think of the time which she, Lanyer, and Anne once spent at this Berkshire estate as a type of the pleasure to be experienced fully in heaven: "Vouchsafe to thinke upon those pleasures past, / As fleeting worldly Joyes that could not last: / Or, as dimme shadowes of celestiall pleasures, / Which are desir'd above all earthly treasures" (13-16).
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