شياطين (Demons)

NEGARESTANI, Reza. Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials. 1st ed. Segovia: Materia Oscura Editorial, 2016. pp. 235–236:

“Pazuzu, the demon of the Sumerian-Assyrian epidemic (the southwest desert wind) (…).

The horror of Pazuzu is often represented as a bipedal, winged humanoid beast, with claws instead of feet and a head shaped like a fleshless skull of a dog or a lion. Pazuzu’s long reptilian penis (a machine for the insemination of plagues, or a disseminator, according to the glossaries of epidemiology) is a later pestilential modification of his body, which curiously has two pairs of wings instead of just one — as if two wings were not enough or adequate for the kinds of missions in which he takes part.
Images of Pazuzu also depict him raising his right hand while keeping his left hand lowered behind his body, thus announcing the cycle of Dust Plagues (…).
Pazuzu reveals various morphological anomalies and peculiarities that distinguish him from other Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian demons.

According to the first known bronze statue of Pazuzu (Iraq, post-Paleolithic era, 800–600 B.C.), these features include:

Legs of extreme thinness and an unusually gaunt torso, with the ribs clearly visible, as if suffering from anorexia or exhaustion; a body scourged by hunger, barely able to bear its own fainting flesh.
The weakened body narrates the cyclical famine of the Middle Eastern desert (…).

Four wings instead of two. The wings appear to be feathered (later figurines confirm this hypothesis: the feathers become visible in the form of remiges — the powerful flight feathers that provide the main thrust to a bird of prey) and accentuate a demonic desire for flight, for speed, and for migration; (…).