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Humbaba
In Ancient Mesopotamian religion, Humbaba ( Assyrian spelling), also spelled Huwawa ( Sumerian spelling) and surnamed ''the Terrible'', was a monstrous giant of immemorial age raised by Utu, the Sun.〔"Utu, I never knew a mother who bore me, nor a father who brought me up! I was born in the mountains—you brought me up!" ((Gilgamesh and Huwawa, version A )), or "The mother who bore me was in a cave in the mountains. The father who engendered me was a cave in the hills. Utu left me to live all alone in the mountains!" ((Gilgamesh and Huwawa, version B ))〕 Humbaba was the guardian of the Cedar Forest, where the gods lived, by the will of the god Enlil, who "assigned () as a terror to human beings."
==Description==
His face is that of a lion. "When he looks at someone, it is the look of death."〔Gilgamesh and Huwawa, version A〕 "Humbaba's roar is a flood, his mouth is death and his breath is fire! He can hear a hundred leagues away any () in his forest! Who would go down into his forest!"〔''Epic of Gilgamesh'', Tablet II.〕 In various examples, his face is scribed in a single coiling line like that of the coiled entrails of men and beasts, from which omens might be read.〔Stephanie Dalley, ''Myths From Mesopotamia'', (Oxford University Press) 1989; S. Smith, "The face of Huwawa," ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society'' 26 (1926:440–42).〕
Another description from Georg Burckhardt translation of Gilgamesh says, "he had the paws of a lion and a body covered in thorny scales; his feet had the claws of a vulture, and on his head were the horns of a wild bull; his tail and phallus each ended in a snake's head."
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