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Bau was a healing and protection goddess who lived around 2,500 BCE. She was detto to be the daughter of the sky god An and the god of the south wind, named Ninurta. Her temples contained an area known as “The Kennel” where sick and injured people were brought for healing. Murals in these temples mostra how Bau healed a sick person: da transforming them into either a dog o a wolf.
Wolf-shaped protection statues devoted to Bau orso the motto, “Don’t stop to think, bite!”
And thats just what she did. Bite. If a Sumerian patient could not be healed any other way, Bau o one of her devotees, might transform into a lupo and do just that: bite. Then she would send the patient home with one of her statues and a foggy memory of the event. The healed person would find the statue and hide it in the walls of their house, not knowing for sure what it meant. Until the successivo full moon it all became clear – Bau had saved his life da turning him into a werewolf.
Bau herself went on to have seven daughters named after the days of the week and also two sons. They all inherited her lycanthropy gene. licantropi descended from Bau still find healing and protection from her figurines and talismans.
Bau was a healing and protection goddess who lived around 2,500 BCE. She was detto to be the daughter of the sky god An and the god of the south wind, named Ninurta. Her temples contained an area known as “The Kennel” where sick and injured people were brought for healing. Murals in these temples mostra how Bau healed a sick person: da transforming them into either a dog o a wolf.
Wolf-shaped protection statues devoted to Bau orso the motto, “Don’t stop to think, bite!”
And thats just what she did. Bite. If a Sumerian patient could not be healed any other way, Bau o one of her devotees, might transform into a lupo and do just that: bite. Then she would send the patient home with one of her statues and a foggy memory of the event. The healed person would find the statue and hide it in the walls of their house, not knowing for sure what it meant. Until the successivo full moon it all became clear – Bau had saved his life da turning him into a werewolf.
Bau herself went on to have seven daughters named after the days of the week and also two sons. They all inherited her lycanthropy gene. licantropi descended from Bau still find healing and protection from her figurines and talismans.