Lammasu
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In Mesopotamian mythology, the lammasu were legendary creatures which had the faces of men, the bodies of lions, and the wings of an eagle. They were said to guard temples and would attack all but the purest good or the purest evil. Compare with the Sphinx.
Lammasu in fiction
Lammasu are a type of good-aligned creature in the Dungeons & Dragons game. In the lammasu are a house of fallen angels; see . Lammasu is also a large bull-like creature in service of the Chaos Dwarfs in Warhammer Fantasy Battle.
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