{"id":114,"date":"2007-09-30T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T16:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blogx\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-09-06T16:10:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T20:10:51","slug":"the-bad-bathroom-guardian-the-imdugud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"The Bad Bathroom Guardian: The Imdugud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article by Rebecca<br \/>\nImage by Will Hobbs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sirwilliamwesley.com\"target=\"_blank\">www.sirwilliamwesley.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the confusion.  For some reason there are always creatures of myth that appear to be impossible to pin down.  Just when I think I know what it\u2019s all about, I turn the page and realize that no one knows.  Case in point, this month\u2019s creature imdugud.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blogx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/imdugud.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blogx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/imdugud.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"imdugud\" width=\"214\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-374\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe first difficulty I encountered was is imdugud actually called imdugud? Sometimes it\u2019s referred to as Imdugud, like it\u2019s an individual\u2019s name.  Other times it\u2019s imdugud, like it\u2019s just a species name, like how you would call a dog a dog.  But wait!  Occasionally it is referred to by the name Anzu, but other times it\u2019s anzu, like that\u2019s its race.  After all I\u2019ve read, I\u2019m taking this stance.  There are anzu.  Then there is Imdugud, who is an anzu.  It\u2019s like how Lassie is called Lassie, but Lassie is a dog.  Got it?  Good.<\/p>\n<p>Next issue is its appearance.  At first I was certain that Imdugud is a winged lion with the head of an eagle.  Then I started finding sources describing Imdugud as an eagle with a lion\u2019s head.  When Imdugud has an eagle\u2019s head, the beak is said to able to cut through anything.  Its feathers form an impenetrable armor.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone seems to agree that Imdugud brought rain and storms.  When it would flap its wings, violent windstorms would occur.  Thunder was its roar.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most common tales of Imdugud involve it being tasked with guarding the bathroom of a god.  Sometimes Imdugud was tasked to be the door keeper to Enki\u2019s (a Sumerian deity) bath.  Of course, you guessed it, other times Imdugud guarded Ellil\u2019s (a different Sumerian deity) bath chamber.  No matter who was in the tub, that deity was the possessor of the Tablets of Destiny.  A powerful artifact that allows anything spoken to become manifest in reality.  Well, while the deity in question was soaking, Imdugud stole the Tablets.  Don\u2019t worry kids, our world isn\u2019t designed by Imdugud talking.  Imdugud got his feathered (or furred) butt kicked and the Tablets were restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the confusion. For some reason there are always creatures of myth that appear to be impossible to pin down. Just when I think I know what it\u2019s all about, I turn the page and realize that no one knows. Case in point, this month\u2019s creature imdugud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}