Aqrabuamelu
Aqrabuamelu (also known as Girtablilu) is a hybrid creature from Mesopotamian mythology combining the torso, arms, and head of a human with the lower body, legs, and tail of a scorpion. These scorpion-people appear most famously in the Epic of Gilgamesh, where a pair of them, a male and a female, guard the entrance to the Mashu Mountains—the gateway through which the sun god Shamash passes each day and the threshold to the underworld realm of Kurnugi. According to the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish, Tiamat created these scorpion-beings as part of her monstrous army to wage war against th