Editing Pazuzu (section)

===Lamastu===
The baby-snatching [[Lamastu]] was attested as both a subject of{{sfn|Wiggermann|p=372}} and an antagonist of Pazuzu. It is theorized that Pazuzu could have been created specifically as a counter to her. Initially she existed as an independent demoness, with no distinct connection to other demons.{{sfn | Wiggermann | 2007}} Then in the Late Bronze Age she took on the lilû demon classification, thus Pazuzu was introduced as a way to chase her from the home and back into the underworld.{{sfn | Wiggermann | 2007}} It does also seem to be that Pazuzu's first appearances and Lamastu's reassigning as a lilû both originate from the same time and place, the Middle Assyrian Empire, but this could be a coincidence.{{sfn | Wiggermann | 2007}}

On one Lamastu amulet, a scene shows Pazuzu chasing the demoness away from her victim,{{sfn | Wiggermann | 2007}} while another displays him destroying it.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Horowitz |first=Wayne |title=A Woman of Valor: Jerusalem Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Joan Goodnick Westenholz |publisher=CSIC Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-8400091330 |pages=66}}</ref>

On a Neo-Assyrian bronze plaque, Pazuzu's head is perched above the top of the plaque, and a smaller version of him in the scene is chasing Lamastu away down a river.{{sfn | Maiden | 2018 | p=87}} Other protective spirits also appear in the plaque, including [[apkallu]] and other animal-headed demons, there to protect the person who is lying down on a bed.{{sfn | Maiden | 2018 | p=87}}