Lamassu

Lamassu

Lama, Lamma, or Lamassu is an Assyrian protective deity.

“The more time I spent Invoking Enlil, the more information I would download…. One of the things I downloaded had to do with the creature the Mesopotamians called the Lamassu. Giant sculptures of them were excavated throughout the Middle East and now reside within museums all over the world - from NYC, to London, to Paris, to Berlin. They are an amalgamation of 4 creatures - a lion, a bull, an eagle, and a man. You can see one on the cover of this book. These were the very first depictions of archangels in humanity’s history. This is how humanity envisioned angels before they were turned into winged people. Eventually the four creatures that make up the Lamassu would be incorporated into Christianity, and would come to represent the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. However, I also saw that the reason these four creatures were chosen to make up the Lamassu also has to do with the stars in a very important way. They were information encoded in visual form. The ancients were sending us a clue about history in a way we’d be able to understand even if their written and spoken language had been long forgotten. What they were attempting to tell us was the approximate time period in the earth’s history when mankind first brushed against the intelligences that taught us magick. These four creatures represent four signs of the zodiac. Leo, Taurus, Cancer, and Aquarius. The lion is Leo. The man is Aquarius. The Bull is Taurus. And the eagle was representative of Scorpio. What I saw is that the time period this represents is when the sun would have risen in the sign of Leo at the spring equinox. And if you were standing facing east watching that sun rise, the constellation of Aquarius would have been at your back in the West. The constellation of scorpio would have been at your right hand, and the constellation of Taurus on your left. I only have a ninth grade education, and am far from an expert in astronomy......but to the best that I can figure, that would have been somewhere around the year 10,500 B.C. I’d later find that scholars who know more about history than I do, such as Graham Hancock, also estimate that this would be around the same time period that the Sphinx in Egypt was constructed - which would also have been facing the constellation of Leo on the Spring Equinox. Which is why it was carved in the form of a lion.” - Damien Echols