Also known as: Lamma, Lamassu

Pray to her for: Protection, safety, reaching  your wishes to the higher powers, connecting with the ancestors.

Invoke her with: Smoke, incense, smudging. If you have a cauldron, light its fire and seek her blessings.

Old seals and remains of statuettes show Lama wearing a multi horned headdress which marks her divine status. Her hair is in a low knot with two strands falling across her shoulders. Her dress has a series of rings at the neck with a tassle or fastening at the back. There are also pleated sections falling one on top of another in layers. Her arms are raised in prayer.

Lama was a popular figure on amulets for protection and also as votive offerings. She was also seen as an intermediary between man and god. She was the goddess who would intercede with another god or goddess on behalf of the supplicant.

Early Kasseite seals on many instances show Lama by herself, indicating that she herself was taken as

 a major divinity. However, by the time of Ur III, she was shown with a major divinity, making her status as an intermediary minor divinity.

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