These creatures supplanted the bashmu as the symbol of the Eblaite (EB-lah-ite) goddess Ishara. A group of these creatures donate their power to their leader (15[1])Tehen, (15[1])who then (15[1])attacks the child of a (15[1])rich woman, in a story found on the Metternich Stela. The tutelary goddess of Qebehsenuef (keh-beh-SEN-oo-eff), the god of the canopic jar containing the intestines, was a deification of (-5[1])this animal (10[4])named (*) Serket. (10[1])The guardians of the gates (-5[1])of Shamash have (10[1])human heads and torsos on the bodies of these creatures. Isis was guarded by seven of (10[1])these animals, another of which was sent by Gaia in response to a hunter's boast that he (10[2])could kill every beast on earth. In a (10[1])Russian fable, a (10[1])trusting frog (10[1])is doomed by the (10[1])self-destructively (10[1])vicious nature of, for 10 points, what arachnid that kills Orion with its (10[2])sting? ■END■