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Lamashtu: Your Great-Great-Great Grandmother's Monstrous Bitch

Lamashtu: Your Great-Great-Great Grandmother's Monstrous Bitch

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Eleanor Johnson
Jan 31, 2025
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Lamashtu: Your Great-Great-Great Grandmother's Monstrous Bitch
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Hey, y’all! We’re a month into 2025, and it’s not going so good, so I figured I’d just haul us back 4500 years, to Ancient Mespotamia. Again.

The longest-lasting and most influential Monstrous Bitch of ancient Babylon is the she-demon, Lamashtu. She’s a monstrous bitch who shape shifts like crazy, appearing at different times, in different stories, acros…

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