Pazuzu, the daemon featured in the movie The Exorcist, is based on an existing figure from Sumerian, Assyrian, and Akkadian mythology. Pazuzu was the king of the wind daemons and the son of the god Hanbi. To the Sumerians, he was the one who brought storms, pestilence, plagues, fever, and delirium.
There is a statuette of this daemon, just 14.5 cm tall, housed in the Louvre Museum in France. This artifact dates back to the first millennium BCE (8th-7th centuries BCE) and was discovered in Iraq. Since 1872, it has been part of the Louvre Museum's collection in Paris.
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