let's talk about the prince of air demons
Why did ancient Babylon have so many demons?
why did they worship the evil spirits?
Probably because Command over or aid from said spirits would give people with the proper knowledge of how to do so what they want.
>>16978664
Never noticed Pazuzu is rocking a mohawk.
Because it rained every day in Babylon
>>16978664
>ITT OP just watched The Exorcist for the first time
>>16978664
babylon was a pretty shit place to live. magic was man trying to tame the elements. Mesopotamia is situated between two rivers that really, really, really liked to flood in the planets unique and psychotic climate back then.
What really makes me wonder is their concept of the afterlife and how essentially every person was fucked in death nomatter what they did.
>>16978664
In the case of Pazuzu, they sometimes worshiped him to drive off another more evil demon called Lamashtu away.
Essentially they picked a side, because it was the lesser evil
Ancient Alien Astronaut Theory. Check it out.
>>16978664
Pazuzu rules
Because that's what they interacted with. In other words those things were real.
I read today that historians counted 3000 gods/names of gods in babylonian times
I read nothing about worshipping demons and internet is not helping
>>16980494
I am Pazuzu.