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Vol. II · Polytheism · death
Namtar
Mesopotamian fate and death demon
carrying sixty diseases in his hands, dispatched by Ereshkigal to afflict mortals, a cord of fate trailing behind him
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.