Orgoamgal

Sarah Gordon

A HOWLING FROM THE ABYSS

Lo! Those who have committed cruelty, yea, the spillers of blood, enter they not Erigal by claw and by jaw? For by their hand and their mouth did they afflict, therefore await these to avenge and repay. From the cold darkness in the desolate void, the accursed soul seeth a red glow and in its ignorance rejoiceth it. Hark! It findeth itself in a huge chamber of dancing flame and brooding shadow. Then the oppressive air of that place smothereth the false hope of the stained soul. Indeed striketh the growling fear into it, the howls that echo and shake countless subterranean vaults and passages. Look how it trembleth, how it attempteth to flee! But terror tieth it to the spot. Above, it was the hunter, below, it is the prey. Then like the owl taketh the rat, the Imgig [demon] swoopeth on the one that stained the soil with blood. The claws of Imgig lift it, and bear it to the edge of the escarpment, to the sheer cliff over which it is unwise to look. For there, in the fiery pit rageth the Hound of Hell, Orgoamgal*, howling for the harsh spirit-flesh of the heartless. Tasty bones are they, delicacies indeed for insatiable Orgoamgal. The claws of Imgig open, like a stone falleth [the soul] into hellish jaws awash in poisonous saliva. The fangs rent it, the jaws crush it. Verily suffereth it an horrible torment, yea, a brutal tearing apart. After that be it excreted in a stench like that of innumerable open graves, in gale-force gases and suffocating smoke. Yea, in whirling winds, sudden fires and explosions. - The Condemnations of Mara, 12: 1 - 7.

*(Dog + heads + three + great)

Enkur Enenurian

In Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, Anz is a divine storm-bird and the personification of the southern wind and the thunder clouds. This demonhalf man and half birdstole the "Tablets of Destiny" from Enlil and hid them on a mountaintop. Anu ordered the other gods to retrieve the tablets, even though they all feared the demon. According to one text, Marduk killed the bird; in another, it died through the arrows of the god Ninurta. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imdugud

http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/bct/bct_pl00.htm

SOURCES
Gordon, Sarah https://ratherlemony.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/the-last-tape-in-hell/ Last Tape in Hell Rather Lemony http://ratherlemony.deviantart.com/art/Last-Tape-in-Hell-Cerberus-356172573 Enkur Enenurian http://enenuru.proboards.com/thread/314?page=2

Translated from Sumerian by Pieter Uys From: The Bestiary of Bau Mara, the great seer of Nippur Text: All rights reserved. Pieter Uys 2014