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Bau was a healing and protection goddess who lived around 2,500 BCE. She was a dit 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 montrer how Bau healed a sick person: par transforming them into either a dog ou a wolf.
Wolf-shaped protection statues devoted to Bau ours the motto, “Don’t stop to think, bite!”
And thats just what she did. Bite. If a Sumerian patient could not be healed...
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