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Pazuzu is mentioned in the so-called Simon Necronomicon, a publication of Avon Books that purports to document incantations to invoke " incredible things, beings, and monsters into visible form.
" He is described therein as " Lord of all fevers and plagues, grinning Dark Angel of the Four Wings, horned, with rotting genitalia ," and as the " brother of HUMAWAW.
" The book claims that he is among the most fearsome of all entities, stating in part: " It is the able magician indeed who can remove PAZUZU once he has laid hold of a man, for PAZUZU lays hold unto death.
" Although the book makes the claim that PAZUZU ( like all entities listed therein ) was of Sumerian origin, critics John Wisdom Gonce III and Daniel Harms document the erroneous nature of such a claim, stating: " Likewise, the demon Pazuzu does not appear in myth until Assyria's rise in the first millennium B. c., long after Sumer's prime ...
Thus the beings of the Simon Necronomicon bear little resemblance to either Sumerian myth or Lovecraftian fiction.

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