These beings supplanted the bashmu as the symbol of the Eblaite (EB-lah-ite) goddess Ishara. A group of these beings donate their power to their leader Tehen, who then attacks the child of a rich woman, in a story found on the Metternich Stela. The tutelary goddess of Qebehsenuef (keh-beh-SEN-oo-eff), the (15[1])god of the canopic jar containing the intestines, was a deification of this creature named (*) Serket. (10[1])The guardians of the gates (10[1])of Shamash have (10[1])human heads (-5[1])and torsos on the bodies of (-5[1])these beings. Isis was guarded by seven of these creatures, another of which was sent by Gaia in response to a hunter's boast that he could kill every beast (10[1])on earth. In a Russian fable, a trusting frog is doomed by the self-destructively vicious nature of, for 10 points, what arachnid that kills Orion with (10[1])its sting? ■END■