Ancient Babylon? No, downtown Dallas.
Tuesday April 24, 2007
Photographer Norris Harrington photographed an eerie statue at Dallas's Fair Park. Look at the interesting shadow cast by this statue; it brings to mind the statue of the demon Pazuzufrom the Exorcist movies. Ever so slightly creepy, that.
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Rod,
It doesn't look at all to me like Pazuzu. Rather it seems simliar to a much more common image of Assyrian and Babylonian times - that of the winged bull (usually with a man's head. Winged bulls would often flank a monumental gate in a palace. The British Museum in London has quite a collection of these statues. As several readers have noted, Art Deco was often influnced by ancient Mesopotamian art, so the resemblance of the Dallas image is not surprising.
Yeah, it doesn't really look like that celebrity demon. However, it does evoke memories (for some) of the film. Often, impressionists don't really sound like someone else; often caricatures don't really look like the people they represent. They just capture something elemental and the eye and ear of another makes the connection. When I turned a corner and saw that statue and its shadow my first thought was of The Exorcist. I had to take a photo.
I always thought Pazuzu was this awful candy in funny dispensers. :+) Kim M
He's the demon with candy coming out of his neck.
Pezuzu?
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