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Originally Posted by Jigsaw Killer
I find the use of Pazuzu as the antagonist all the stranger too considering he's actually a protector who wards off other evil spirits, according to mythology. But seeing as he himself is a demon, I guess his protection comes with a cost.
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Pazuzu is, at least on the surface, an odd choice for the possessing demon within the Exorcist film. Would have expected just a demon, or the Devil. But Pazuzu is the king of the demons of the wind. There's an attachment to Judeo-Christianity. One in particular is in Daniel 10, where assumedly an angel, was sent to Daniel, but "the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia." The "fallen angels" of Genesis were on the Earth for centuries. One might expect these demons to be the demons/gods of ancient civilizations.