>>20508635It's because this the Sumerians understood Lamastu as exiled to the Sinai region after she was thrown out of Heaven for eating babies for breakfast, they saw Lamastu as a Sutean, and this is the region that people look to for their religion. Lamastu was the evil opposite of Inanna as Venus, each had seven aspects, the seven evil aspects of Lamastu were seen as born of the scorpion, an ever present symbol of this cult.
https://archive.org/stream/LamashtuDaughterOfAnu/WiggermannLamashtu_djvu.txt>According to the texts her head is that of a dog or a lion, her face that of an Anzu;" her teeth are donkey's teeth, " her hair hangs loose, her breasts are bared, she is spotted like a leopard or a fish; sometimes she is winged," rarely tailed.>The evil eye of Lamastu seems to operate as an independent entity, flying around in the house, causing quarrels among the tots,and destroying peaceful family life.>A snake and a scorpion, another of her deadly "weapons", regularly appear in the field of the Bronze Age amulets from Mesopotamia, and on the Iron Age amulets Lamastu invariably holds one or two snakes in either hand, while often a scorpion is depicted between her legsIt is also known that in Mesopotamian tradition Lamastu was understood as exiled to a high mountain top in the Sinai region, there she arranged the stealing of the tablets of Destiny and their bring to that Mountain through the Anzu bird, an aspect of her cult, this later formed the basis for a ridiculous story involving Moses and the rest is history, or more properly Destiny. Lamastu was synonymous with witches and sorcery and the Suteans of the Sinai region, the Menorah is a symbol tracing back to that region, the seven aspects of Lamastu all destructive, as is everything that has emerged from that region.
