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 Tehen, (15[1])who then 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 this animal named (*) Serket. The guardians of the gates of Shamash have human heads and torsos on the bodies of these creatures. Isis was guarded by seven of these animals, another of which was sent by Gaia in response to a hunter's boast that he could kill every beast on earth. In a Russian fable, a trusting frog (10[1])is doomed by the self-destructively vicious nature of, for 10 points, what arachnid that kills Orion with its sting? ■END■