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, who then (15[1])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 god of the canopic jar containing the intestines, was a deification of this animal (10[1])named (*) Serket. The guardians of the gates of Shamash have (10[1])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 (10[1])could kill every beast 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 its sting? ■END■