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Lilith, inspired by John Collier

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Names of Liliths in Incantation Bowls

The figure of Lilith was originally a type of demon, appearing first in the Dead Sea Scrolls (1st BCE), and then developing in the Aramaic (as well as Syriac and Mandaic) incantation bowls. They appear with many names, with added genealogies, including the names of their mothers/fathers and grandmothers.

Most bowls refer to plural male and female liliths, without mentions of their names. I've only kept the name lists, and refrained from including descriptions whenever possible.

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ARAMAIC

Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur - James A. Montgomery

No. 8

Pelahdad

No. 11

Halbas

Zarni

No. 17

Lilith of the Desert

(Lilith) whose mother is Palhan and whose father Pelahdad

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Amulets and Magic Bowls, Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity - Joseph Naveh, Shaul Shaked

Amulet 15

[Side]ros

Bowl 12

Sideros

Lilith

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Incantation Texts in Jewish Aramaic from Late Antiquity - A Corpus of Magic Bowls - Dan Levene

Bowl M103 & M119

ZNY (Zanay)

Bowl M145 - liliths

Zarni

Bowl M155

TST (Ṭasat)

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Jewish Aramaic Curse Texts from Late-Antique Mesopotamia - Dan Levene

Isbell 22 (Gordon 1934b) no. 9737 of the Iraq Museum Catalogue

Hablas

Granddaughter of Zarnai

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Aramaic Bowl Spells, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls, Volume One - Shaul Shaked, Siam Bhayro

I.2.1. DIVORCE TEXTS: JOSHUA BAR PERAHIA

JBA 15 (MS 1927/43)

lilith of the open field

Palḥadad

JBA 18 (MS 2053/103)

(Palḥadad)

JBA 19 (MS 2053/132)

Palḥadad

JBA 24 (MS 2053/251)

Pa]l[ḥadad

Lili

I.2.2. DIVORCE TEXTS: Elisur Bagdana

JBA 27 (MS 1927/16)

[Ḥalbat]

granddaughter of Zarnay

JBA 29 (MS 1927/51)

Ḥabṭas

granddaughter of Za[rnay

JBA 30 (MS 1928/47)

Ḥablas

granddaughter of Zarnay

JBA 31 (MS 2053/41)

Ḥalbat

granddaughter of Zarnay

JBA 32 (MS 2053/64)

Ḥalba[t]

granddaughter of Zarnay

JBA 33 (MS 2053/83)

Ḥabṭas

granddaughter of Zarnay

JBA 34 (MS 2053/86)

Ḥablas

granddaughter [of] Zarnay

JBA 36 (MS 2053/110)

[Ḥa]l[ba]s

granddaughter of Zarnay

JBA 37 (MS 2053/123)

[Ḥabṭa]s

[granddaughter of Zarnay

JBA 38 (MS 2053/151)

Ḥabla[s]

⟨grand⟩daughter of Zarnay

JBA 39 (MS 2053/162)

[Ḥablas]

grand[daughter of Zarnay

JBA 40 (MS 2053/167)

Ḥalbat

granddaughter of Zarnay

JBA 42 (MS 2053/190)

Ḥalbat

granddaughter of Zarnay

JBA 43 (MS 2053/193)

Ḥabṭas

granddaughter of Zarnay

JBA 44 (MS 2053/213)

Zarnay

JBA 45 (MS 2053/237)

Ḥab[la]s

granddaughter of Za[rnay]

JBA 46 (MS 2053/249)

Sagnat

Ḥablas

granddaughter of Zarnay

JBA 47 (MS 2053/258)

Ḥabṭas

granddaughter of Zarnay

Ṭasat

I.2.2.1. DIVORCE TEXTS: Elisur Bagdana (Divorce Formula not Present)

JBA 48 (MS 2053/200)

Lili

JBA 49 (MS 2053/270)

Lili

I.2.3. DIVORCE TEXTS: The Lilith Zanay, the Fornicating Singing-Girl

JBA 50 (MS 2053/207)

Za[nay

JBA 51 (MS 2053/209)

Zanay

JBA 52 (MS 2053/231)

Za[na]y

JBA 53 (MS 2053/253)

Zanay

JBA 54 (MS 2053/273)

Zanay

I.2.4. DIVORCE TEXTS: Other Divorce Texts

JBA 55 (MS 1928/1)

Ramit Ḥagigat

Ṣemotat

Zarnay

who is called Pargos

JBA 62 (MS 2053/242)

Palḥadad

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Aramaic Magic Bowls in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin - Siam Bhayro, James Nathan Ford, Dan Levene, Ortal-Paz Saar

I VA.2182

Aḥablas

daughter of Zarnay

Shelf mark: VA.2180 (unpublished)

Zarnay and her seven daughters

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Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Museum Collections, Volume One, The Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection of Babylonian Antiquities, Jena - James Nathan Ford, Matthew Morgenstern

I. JBA and Hebrew Bowls

HS 3003

Sideros

Notes of HS 3009:

"Semomit Lilita" (B 16073:5)

HS 3016

Paḥladad

HS 3026

Ḥablat

granddaughter of Zarnay

Notes of HS 3032

"The lilith Semimut (or: Semomit) gave birth to twelve sons" (Wolfe 23:7–8)

HS 3034

Ḥablas

granddaughter of Zarnay

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Aramaic Bowl Spells, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Bowls, Volume Two - Shaul Shaked, Siam Bhayro

I.3.2. The Seals of Ashmedai

JBA 81 (MS 1927/36)

Palḥas

JBA 82 (MS 2053/39)

Palḥas

JBA 83 (MS 2053/121)

Palḥas

JBA 84 (MS 2053/144)

Palḥas

JBA 85 (MS 2053/147)

Ḥablas

JBA 86 (MS 2053/226)

Palḥadod

I.4.1.1. The Lilith Gannav(at)/Gannaqat

JBA 91 (MS 1927/38)

Gannav

Gannavat

JBA 92 (MS 1927/54)

Gannaqat

JBA 93 (MS 2053/15)

[Ga]nnaqat

JBA 94 (MS 2053/51)

Gannaqat

JBA 95 (MS 2053/69)

Gannav

JBA 98 (MS 2053/140)

Gannav

JBA 99 (MS 2053/173)

Gannavat

JBA 101 (MS 2053/215)

Gannav

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Notes on Some Recently Published Magic Bowls in the Schøyen Collection and Two New Parallels - J. N. Ford

A New "Elisur Bagdana" Bowl (Davidovitz 27)

Ḥablas

granddaughter of Zarni

Museo Sefardí 1073

Ḥablas

granddaughter of Zarni

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SYRIAC

Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur - James A. Montgomery:

No. 36

Murderess, daughter of Murderess

Dodib

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Tumblr Community link: @lilith-lamashtu

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One of my favorite depictions of Hekate is this triple statue found at Salinae, actual Ocn Mures, in the roman province of Dacia. According to Nerea López Carrasco it could date from the II century CE (Antonine period) and it was likely imported. López Carrasco cites Cecilia Stoian Symonds in order to identify the statue as a cult idol, the sacred image of the Goddess at a sanctuary or temple. Now it is kept at the Bruckenthal Museum in Sibiu (Romania).

As you can see, the frontal part of the statue shows a dress divided in panels with scenes. This particular appearence resembles the image of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias, and even the famous ephesian Artemis! At the chest you can find an Helios like face, that Nerea argues could also be associated with the Phosphoros epithet (as Hesperos figure or the morning star). At the left shoulder I recognise Fortuna-Tykhe, with her attributes: a rudder and the cornucopia. Under the belt of her chiton there is a first panel with Hermes, a woman (maybe Persephone?) petting a dog, a woman with a baby (Nerea identifies her Hekate Kourotrophos), and some other animals like a a turtle and a rooster. The following panel has five figures, one of them being a child and other could be Hekate with a torch. (In an article by Valentina Casella the scene is interpreted as Eleusinian, being the central figures those of Demeter, Triptolemus and Persephone). At both sides they are animals that look like dogs. The third panel has two depictions of Hekate (could be that one of them shows a xoanon or statue of the goddess, and the other the goddess herself), both with torches but one of them three-headed. The scene has been identified with the rites of a mystery cult (the sacrifice of a dog at the right side, at the center some cereal or fruit offerings along with a woman that has something above her head (maybe carrying a sacred artifact like the mystic cista). The last panel shows some young dancing, maybe the Charites or a group of nymphs.

Link to database Ubi Erat Lupa, where you can look more photographs https://lupa.at/17501

-López Carrasco, Nerea (2022) "La diosa Hécate griega. Delimitación de los perfiles astral y mágico de la divinidad", Universidad de Málaga. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/tesis?codigo=310075

-Casella, Valentina (2017) "Ecate in Dacia tra latitanza e assimilazione", MHNH. Revista Internacional de Investigación sobre Magia y Astrología Antiguas. https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/mhnh/es/article/view/15789/15809

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cave angel fish

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Eye of Horus neck tattoo on the mummified remains of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,000 years ago, found in Deir el-Medina, the village of tomb builders

Smithsonian, photo by Anne Austin

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Lilith Art by Fosco Culto

Lilith with a Chalice

Nightmare Lilith

Gamaliel

Lilith's Laughter

Lilith Succubus

Lilith, Queen of Demons

Lilith in the Sea

Lilith in the Desert

Wandering of Lilith

Heart of Lilith

Mistress of the Earth

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Names of Liliths in Mandaeism

Ginza Rabba | The Mandaean Book of John/Drāšā ḏ-Yaḥyā

Zahriel

The Haran Gawaitha

Sufnai

Diwan Abatur, or Progress Through the Purgatories

Zuṭ

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Another Look at the Mandaic Incantation Bowl BM 91715 - J. N. Ford

Azat/Arwazat

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Mandaic Incantation Texts - Edwin M. Yamauchi

Text 21: Lidzbarski, 1902, V, Louvre A.O. 2629:

Haldas

Taklath

grand-daughter of Zarni

Buznai

Text 23, Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur - James A. Montgomery, No. 38, CBS 2941:

Yannai

Text 25, Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur - James A. Montgomery, No. 40, CBS 9005:

Buznai

Text 28: Gordon, 1937 O, no. 91724 in the British Museum, partly paralleled by Montgomery's No. 40:

Buznai, angel.

Text 30: Gordon, 1941, Hilprecht:

Zatan

Text 33: Yamauchi, 1966, Yale, same bowl as "The Story of Bguzan-Lilit, Daughter of Zanay-Lilit - Christa Müller-Kessler":

Buznai

daughter of Zanai

Zanai, the daughter of Eglima

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Mandaic Incantation(s) on Lead Scrolls from the Schøyen Collection - Ohad Abudraham, Matthew Morgenstern

MS 2087/11 a

Sidamus

MS 2087/11 b

Ṣupntan - unattested in other source, but compare ṣupnia/ṣupnai lilita, a name that appears in both epigraphic texts and in the Haran Gawaitha.

izdandu lilita (MS 2054/76: 47)

iazdanduk lilita (BM 91775)

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Notes on the Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the British Museum - James Nathan Ford

100M - BM 117881

Halbas

Itklat (Taklat in Segal 2000)

Mšišta (Qašišta in Segal 2000)

Piṭyara

Piṭyaruta

Pigdta

Nala

Niula

Siqupta

the lilith of the night

the lili of the day

107M - BM 91777

Lilith Ispandarmid, who calls herself Lady Ispandarmid

Lady ... the lilith, the mother of all humartas and all curses and imprecations

Lilith that calls herself Nanay

lilith Zarni, sister of …

who calls herself Mamay

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The Story of Bguzan-Lilit, Daughter of Zanay-Lilit - Christa Müller-Kessler

YALE YBC 2364/BM 132948

Buznay/Bguzan

Zanay

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Gnostic Ethics and Mandaean Origins - Edwin M. Yamauchi

Suf-Suda, son of the lilith Sufat

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Divine Names on the Spot III, Naming and Agency in Ancient Greek and West Semitic Texts - Thomas Galoppin, Sylvain Lebreton, "Demon names, onomastic sequences, and incantation specialists in Mandaic incantations from late-antique Mesopotamia - Enrico Marcato"

MS2087/1

Martinai

Hiṭurpa-Sania

Bganit-Ṣupnia

MS2054/22:13

Ṣupnai

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Mesopotamian Magic, Textual, Historical, and Interpretative Perspectives - Tzvi Abusch, Karel van der Toorn, "Interrelations between Mandaic Lead Rolls and Incantation Bowls - Christa Müller-Kessler"

Incantation on lead roll BM 132947

Komiš

Namlik

Npazat

dog-like Lilit

BM 132168

dog-like Lilit

BM 91777

Ispandarmid

Anahid

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Studies in the Syriac Magical Traditions - Marco Moriggi, Siam Bhayro, "A Mandaean Lamella and Its Parallels - Matthew Morgenstern, Ohad Abudraham"

BM 132957

Buznai

Komiš

Ṭripit

Dnapaṭ Dinariṭ

Namlik

Malkiat

Šašqalia

Hṭaṭit

Yaldat

Azaṭ

Npazaṭ

Lilith the raiser of dogs, who calls herself Mamai

Ispandarmid, the lilith who called herself Lady

Anahid

the lilith who sits upon Mount Qalia

lilith that rested and sits and calls herself Nanai d-Nhat (Note 180-181: perhaps nanai ḏ-nhat is intended to explain the origin of the syncretistic goddess Nanai Anahid)

 Qinrati(a), the lilith, daughter of Šarai, who calls herself the goddess of Beṯ M(a)na

O. Abudraham, 'Three Mandaic Incantation Bowls in the Yosef Matisyahu Collection' (Hebrew)

Punaqitai (Matisyahu 1:3–4)

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Reddit link: "Names of Liliths in Mandaeism"

Tumblr Community link: @lilith-lamashtu

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Names of Lilith

First of all, refer to this page from the Library of Lilith, it's what inspired me to dig through my books to find all the different names I could.

I will not include the names of Gello/Abyzou as those will get a separate (very long) post. This is by no means an exhaustive list.

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SPELLING

Hebrew: לִילִית

Mandaic: ࡋࡉࡋࡉࡕࡀ

Syriac: ܠܠܝܬܐ

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NAMES/EPITHETS OF LILITH

Mar'eh haYeladim

Pelonith

Midrash ABKIR (lost)

Piznai

Amarit

Gofrit

Treatise on the Left Emanation

Taninsam

Epithets: Zohar i. 148a, Sitre Torah:

Serpent

Woman of Harlotry

End of All Flesh

End of Days

Ancient Israel: Myths and Legends - Angelo S. Rappoport

Meyalleleth (the howling one)

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NAMES REVEALED BY LILITH

Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur - James A. Montgomery

No. 42

Lilith

Abitar (Abito?)

Abikar (Abiko?)

Amorpho

Hakas

Odam

Kephido

Ailo

Matrota

Abnukta

Satriha

Kali

Batzeh

Taltui

Kitsa

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Between Demonology and Hagiology, The Slavonic Rendering of the Semitic Magical Historiola of the Child-Stealing Witch - Florentina Badalanova Geller - translating "Илья Пророк и демоны в еврейских магических текстах - M. Kaspina" in footnote 27:

Lilith

Abitu

Abizu

Amzarko

Hekesh

Orem

Ikpodu

Ilu

Tatrota

Abunukta

Shatruna

Kalikataza

Tilatui

Piratsha

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Folk-Lore of the Holy Land - J. E. Hanauer (also found in "A Dictionary of Angels", mixed with names from Mesopotamian, Greek, Mandaic and other traditions)

Satrinah

Lilith

Avitu

Amiz

Raphi

Amizii

Kakash

Odem

'ik

Pods

'ils

Petrota

Abro

Kema

Kalee

Bituah

Thiltho

Partashah

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Hebrew Magic Amulets - T. Schrire

Note 13:

Lilith

Abiti

Abizu

Amrusu

Hakash

Odem

Ik

Pudu

Ayil

Matruta

Avgu

Katah

Kali

Batuh

Paritasha

Plate 53:

Lilith

Aviti

Abizu

Amrusu

Hakash

Odem

Ik

Pudu

Ayil

Matruta

Avgu

Kish

Shatrugah

Kali

Batuh (and) Hil

Paritasha

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Amulet attached to Jean de Pauley's Zohar:

Hakash

Avers

Hikpodu

Ayalu

Matrota

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Two Thousand Years of a Charm against the Childstealing Witch - M. Gaster Ph.D.

Satrina

Lilith

Abito

Amizo

Izorpo

Koko

Odam

Ita

Podo

Eilo

Patrota

Abeko

Kea

Kali

Batna

Talto

Partasah

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SYRIAC

A Syriac Charm - Willis Hatfield Hazard

Maidok

Edilai

Meba'alaya

Lilitha, the suffocatress

Galus

Arphus

Marsab

Lamuros

Martus

Samyus

Helios (Ἥλιος‎‎)

Dirba

Pheton

Phagug

Lilitha or Malwitha

Tab'a, the suffocatress of children and women

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The Book of Protection, Being a Collection of Charms - Hermann Gollancz, also at Esoteric Archives/Codex B also in: Two Thousand Years of a Charm against the Childstealing Witch - M. Gaster Ph.D.

1) CODEX B: § 7. THE ANATHEMA OF MAR 'ABD-ISHO', THE MONK AND HERMIT

First, Miduch

second, Edilta

third, Mouelta

the fourth they call Lilita and

Malvita and

the Strangling Mother of boys

My first name (is) Geos:

second, Edilta

third, Lambros

fourth, Martlos

fifth, Yamnos

sixth, Samyos

seventh, Domos

eighth, Dirba

ninth, Apiton

tenth, Pegogha

eleventh, Zarduch

Lilita

Malvita, and

the Strangling Mother of boys

2) CODEX C: § 25. THE BAN OF MAR 'ABD-ISHO', THE SAINT

(first names missing)

Martlos, six;

Salmios, seven;

Apiton, eight;

Dirba, nine;

Pegoga, ten;

Lilita, eleven;

Malvita, twelve;

Zarduch,

the dissembling (or 'compelling') demon,

the strangling mother of boys and girls.

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LILITH PARALLELS

Samca/Avezuha/Avestiţa:

The Romanian Tradition of The Sisinnios Legend (the 16th-19th centuries) - Marius Mazilu, Emanuela Timotin

Avestiţa

Avezuha

Brona

Deca

Grapa

Huba

Huluba

Leba

Muha

Navadariia

Puha

Samca

Scormela

Şelii

Solomiia

Tiha

Viştiţa

Zlaia

Variations:

19. Ahala

20. Aida

21. Baluha

22. Boloba

23. Comoara

24. Curma

25. Ersina

26. Falnica

27. Genţia

28. Hluchica

29. Honea

30. Nenesina

31. Susonomena

32. Şarpe

33. Vunari

34. Zemiha

35. Zoiţa

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Two Thousand Years of a Charm against the Childstealing Witch - M. Gaster Ph.D. - Romanian story

I have nineteen names.

Veslitza

Novadaria

Valnomia

Sina

Nicozda

Avezuha

Scorcoila

Tiha

Miha

Grompa

Slalo

Necausa

Hatav

Hulila

Huva

Ghiana

Gluviana

Prava

Samca

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Qarīnah:

Variations of English spelling: Qarīna(h), Qareen, Karina(h), Karineh

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Legends of the Fire Spirits, Jinn and Genies From Arabia to Zanzibar - Robert Lebling

Qarina/al-Qarinah

ukht or shaqîqah (sister)

tâbi'a(h)/al-Tabi'ah (pursuer)

Umm el-Sibyân (Mother of Children)/um es-sabyan/Umm al-Subian

el-Jiddah (the Grandmother)

Umm el-Lêl (Mother of Night)

el-Shahhâqah (the Sobber)

el-Khunfusah (the Female Scarab or Dung-Beetle)

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Bedeviled, Jinn Doppelgangers in Islam and Akbarian Sufism - Dunja Rašić

Qarīna

ʾUmm al-Ṣibyān

Tābiʿa

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Reddit link: "Names of Lilith"

Tumblr Community link: @lilith-lamashtu

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The Sphinx of Life, c. 1891 by Fidus (1868-1947)

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Late 2nd-century statue of Glycon (a briefly influential snake cult within the Roman Empire)

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The Pergamon Altar; Hecate is shown fighting the giant Klytios, while Artemis, with her hunting dog, is battling another giant.

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Succubi by Aleksandra Wojcik

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Bellerophon riding Pegasus and killing the Chimera, Roman mosaic, the Rolin Museum in Autun, France, 2nd to 3rd century AD

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They met a goddess in the forest…

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Harpy by Leanna Teneycke