The Gate-Keepers
13 figures A family: figures with traits in common
threshold guardians of the underworld and its approaches, passed by rite rather than by force (mushussu, gallu, kur, ab ta, namtar)
What binds them
- Threshold guardianship · 11 of them
- Underworld gatekeeper · 6 of them
- Can be placated by specific ritual or trick · 3 of them
- Mute servant no independent will · 1 of them
- Underworld demon causes illness in living · 1 of them
- Vahana mount of a deity · 1 of them
- Woman transformed into half fish sea being · 1 of them
- Death like paralytic induction · 1 of them
Drawn from 8 groups of traditions: Middle eastern 4 · South asian 2 · Celtic 2 · North american indigenous 1 · Other 1 · African 1 · European 1 · Norse germanic 1
Members
Resemblance is not descent; descent is drawn only as the gold lines on the constellation. All families.