It was then that Pazuzu's path crossed that of Father Lankester Merrin, who was called to attempt to exorcise the demon from the boy. It was here however that Pazuzu would eventually meet what would become his greatest enemy on the Earth.Īt some point about twelve years before the events of The Exorcist, Pazuzu took hold of a young African boy named Kokumo, transforming the boy into a violent and unrecognizable shadow of his former self. As the king of the wind demons, this was a fitting exertion of Pazuzu's power, as the locusts rode on the back of the wind to spread Pazuzu's influence across the continent. Pazuzu plagued Africa with swarms of possessed locusts. He would often cause his victims to vomit, sometimes in projectile streams. Pazuzu was a violently cruel and blasphemous being, uttering all manner of profane language and behavior. It was not uncommon for multiple demons to reside within a single victim. Slowly and methodically they would then begin oppressing their victim until they had completely broken down their defenses, at which point the demon could enter the victim's body, taking it over as a vessel. Then they would begin infestation by taking residence in their victim's home. A demon's plan of attack in possessing a human was to search for an individual with a spiritual weakness. Perhaps, being a demon, Pazuzu's greatest ability was the complete overtaking of a human or animal victim, known as possession. He could imitate and mimic the sound of any human and animal with precise detail, including all manner of languages and accents, and loud, terrifying animal bellows. He could cause levitation, and psychically alter humans' perceptions of what they saw and heard. Pazuzu, along with the rest of his demonic brethren, was given limited power to alter what God had created, but not to create. who worshipped him as a deity, depicted him in statues with stubby horns, sharp teeth, two pairs of eagle-like wings, and a long, serpentine penis. He took the form of a pale skinned human-like ghoul, with brown irises, sagging lower eyelids, and yellow teeth.

As a demon, Pazuzu sought to violate and destroy God's favored creation, humans. After rebelling against God with Lucifer, God banished them and all their cohorts from Heaven, and they became demons. 1.5 Exorcism of the Gemini Killer from Father Damien Karrasīeing a Judeo-Christian demon, Pazuzu was created as an angel to worship and serve God.

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