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• Lamashtu: Hide yo kids, hide yo wife | Baby History

  

  Although not a (true) physician, she wraps with bandages,    although not a (true) midwife, she wipes the baby clean.She keeps count of the months of the pregnant woman,    cloistering off the doors of women about to give birth. – Old Babylonian (OB3) Lamashtu Incantation, lines 3–6, From Harvard Library Bulletin Lamashtu was a lion-headed hawk footed…

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 12, 2022

  Babies, Birth, Video

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