#basmu

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Bael's parents Hekete & Bašmu

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Basmu - Infernal Circles of the Sabbath -

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Here’s the Bašmu, from Mesopotamian mythology! This huge beast was created in the sea and would devour fish and men alike- the gods disapproved of its appetite and sent Nergal to vanquish it! Made for Librum Prodigiosum !

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Sumerian Mythology - The earliest deities of ancient Mesopotamia (60)

Superhuman monsters vanquished by the god Ninurta – The dragon and the bull man

The Dragon (Sumerian: Ušum or Ushum) who lives in a mountain fortress was one of the warriors slain by Ninurta, patron god of Lagash, in Angim myth (Ref). Its body was hung on the seat of his chariot according to the ancient source. It is first attested by a 22nd-century BCE cylinder inscription at Gudea.

In the Akkadian terms Bašmu (lit. "Venomous Snake") was an ancient Mesopotamian mythological creature, a horned snake with two forelegs and wings. It was also the Akkadian name of the Babylonian constellation equivalent to the Greek Hydra.

The bull-man (Sumerian: Kusarikku) on the other hand, is in the dust of battle. The bull-man is a hybrid creature, combination of a man's head and upper body and a bull's lower body, and is often represented as standing on his back legs like a man. He was also slayed by the god Ninurta. From Old Babylonian times onwards he was a follower of the sun god Utu.

シュメール神話～古代メソポタミア最古の神々(60)

ニヌルタ神が退治した超人的怪物たち〜竜と牛人間

山の城塞（じょうさい）に住む竜（シュメール語：ウシュム）は、アンギン神話（参照）でラガシュの守護神であるニヌルタが殺害した戦士の一人である。古代の資料によると、その体はニヌルタの戦車の座席に吊るされていたという。グデアの紀元前22世紀の円柱形の碑文で初めて証明された。

アッカド語ではバシュム（毒蛇の意）は、古代メソポタミアの神話上の生物で、2本の前脚と翼を持つ角のある蛇である。また、バビロニアの星座のアッカド語の名前でもあり、ギリシャ語のヒュドラーに相当する。

一方の牛人間（シュメール語：クサリク）は戦闘の塵の中にいる。牛人間は人間の頭と上半身、牡牛の下半身を合わせた獣人で、しばしば人間のようにうしろ足でたっている姿で表現される。同じくニヌルタ神に殺害された。古バビロニア時代以降は太陽神ウトゥの従者であった。古バビロニア時代以降は太陽神ウトゥの従者であった。

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Bašmu | The Encircling (2020)

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Language time: Akkadian, the language spoken by the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians, was a contemporary of Sumerian. Sumerian being the older of the two, without a concrete writing system and seemingly no known origin or relatives, Akkadians transliterated it for their own purposes, an even older Rosetta Stone. The region of Mesopotamia was actually the first known region where bilingualism was common! Anyways, Sumerian had two words for the beast known in English as the horned serpent: ušum and muššatur. The Akkadians had only one, bašmu, but there was still two distinct types of bašmu corresponding to the ušum and maššatur. The former is often made into the ušumbašmu or more popularly ušumgallu, while the latter is almost always just bašmu. We'll be talking about the latter. 

Bašmu, "venomous snake", is just that. A snake with horns. And possibly multiple heads, as one source gives it six mouths, seven tongues, and something else of seven on its stomach. This once again conforms to the pattern of mythical snakes being equated with the number seven in Mesopotamia. One fragment describes it as sixty double-miles long. Sadly, since I can't find the original source to see what word miles is translating, the only assumption to be made is that it's comparable to a Roman league. Rather than having you pull out your calculator and look up how big a Roman league is, sixty of these leagues is equivalent to 133.2 kilometers or 82.7 miles long. A scale that ought to be taken with a grain of salt, as in reality it's a large number meant to convey its awesomeness. Rather than matching the typical idea of a monster, the offspring of Tiamat were more like calamities given shape. In the sea the bašmu lived, a moving, live swell of ocean water and venom which devoured and destroyed whatever in came into contact with. Until the avenging god slayed it of course. No matter how great the monster, the hero coming to slay it will always be greater.

-- Again, not the biggest fan with the art for this one. I had the idea in my head and well... 

Whatever, no more negatives! Basmu is the simplest of all the demons, possibly barring Lahmu, who was just a dude. Instead of just drawing a simple snake with horns I added a collar. Which did nothing to remedy how plain it looked. Then bam, I thought: it seeps venom like a hagfish, give it a scaly hagfish body. And so here we are. Seven tongues, two horns, one collar. Also I finished the next one early so I'll post it tomorrow. Next time, the... end?

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Basmu was fucking wronged, wronged I say!

How dare they only implement the sick ass green dragon design for Semiramis attack animations and Babylon forces us with a fucking sonic dragon. Bah!   

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Bašmu - Temple Of Obsidian Portals