Pazuzu

thumb|This Assyrian bronze statuette of Pazuzu is in height, from the early 1st millennium BC, held at the Louvre Museum.

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Function
Pazuzu as domestic protector deity
Protective objects
Ritual texts
Iconography
Demonic relationships
Parents and siblings
Wind demons
Lamastu
Bes
Other protective demons
In Mesopotamian religion
History
Name
In popular culture
See also
References
Bibliography
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thumb|This Assyrian bronze statuette of Pazuzu is in height, from the early 1st millennium BC, held at the Louvre Museum.

In ancient Mesopotamian religion, Pazuzu () is a demonic deity who was well known to the Babylonians and Assyrians throughout the first millennium BCE. He is shown with "a rather canine face with abnormally bulging eyes, a scaly body, a snake-headed penis, the talons of a bird and usually wings". He was believed to be the son of the god Hanbi.