The Sumerian Tablets Named 12 Beings That Preyed on Humans — Which One Was Most Dangerous?

In this video: the twelve names, the priesthood that documented them, the reclassification that erased them, and the one being the ašipū themselves could not exorcise. SOURCES: The Utukkū Lemnūtu tablet series — 16 tablets, standardised in the seventh century BC at the library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh The Šurpu series — 5 tablets on the ritual dissolution of curses and inherited spiritual contamination The Maqlû series — 8 tablets on countering hostile witchcraft The Atrahasis Epic — pre-1600 BC, three surviving manuscripts, revolt of the Igigi and creation of humanity as replacement labour The myth Lugal-e — composed under the Ur III dynasty c. 2100 BC, the killing of Asakku by Ninurta Inanna's Descent to the Underworld — pre-1750 BC, the Gallu abduction of Dumuzi The Enūma Eliš — Babylonian creation and cosmic-order text The Book of Enoch, chapter 15 — the Watchers, Nephilim, and disembodied evil spirits Genesis chapter 4, verse 7 — the Hebrew rōbēṣ ("crouching") and its Akkadian cognate rabiṣu Isaiah chapter 34, verse 14 — the naming of Lilith Gospel of Mark, chapter 5 — the Gerasene demoniac and the Legion request The Alphabet of Ben Sira — eighth to tenth century AD, preserved rabbinic Lilith tradition