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By Elizabeth Stein for Mythos Atlas. About the author. Editorial notes are grounded in the site's cited sources and can be challenged through the contact page.

The terrifying guardian of the Cedar Forest, appointed by Enlil to protect the sacred trees. His face was formed from the intestines of gods, his roar was the flood, his breath was fire, and his mere glance was death. Gilgamesh and Enkidu slew him despite his pleas for mercy.