Talk:Pazuzu

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Why aren't the television references considered 'notable'? They've been removed repeatedly from this entry. [was unsigned, but by User:Troublekit]

Television references for just about any topic are almost always unnotable unless the topic of the piece is specifically about television. Notability for an article has to be something that's significant for the overall topic, not just trivia of no real importance. Authors of fiction (TV, movies, videogames, RPGs, short stories, novels, etc. etc.) often lift characters out of myth and legends... If we listed them all pretty much all of the articles would be filled with a couple paragraphs of actual facts about a topic and then 6 billion references to fiction. Unless there's something special about a fictional reference (and the Exorcist movie qualifies, as it was world-famous and heavily featured Pazuzu by plot and image) there's no reason at all to list it here. Futurama characters with the same name but not having any real relationship to the actual character, the fact that D&D adapts it as a monster (they adapt EVERYTHING, so what?), and so forth and so on has no actual useful knowledge content to someone reading this article.

And, as a matter of fact, looking at the page I think I need to remove more of the fictional references that are currently there. DreamGuy 06:04, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

After thinking about it, I decided to make a disambiguation page that had some of them, like is done with a lot of other aticles. DreamGuy 12:24, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

All right. It just seemed very arbitrary. Troublekit 07:34, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Yes, like a 'trivia' section is on here, which I think has been considered unencyclopedic and they are supposed to be integrated into articles, or removed.Merkinsmum 22:01, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Burnt hair-smelling testicular excretions?

Please tell me this is vandalism. blahpers 18:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Not too sure about it, but i hope some passer-by expert of Babylonian mythology will clean up this article soon. 82.58.169.151 07:45, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

wind

I changed it to northeastern wind, as per the excellent link to a PDF section of a scholarly work below on the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.205.234.13 (talk) 08:43, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

god? demon? what?

The article is very confusing in these terms. It goes back and forth between the terms. To my knowledge Pazuzu is a demon employed against Lamashtu, but is not worshipped and has no temples or places of worship.

Xuchilbara (talk) 05:51, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Pazuzu in the Music world

This band called Behemoth that I'm obsessed with has a song called Pazuzu. They are really into the mythology stuff and I went on here to Wikipedia to look and what some of the things they include in their lyrics mean. They mention things like Asmodeus (where I got my name) Which is a demon, and Belial, and other cryptic things like that. So Pazuzu cought my intrest.Don't know to much about it but it seems cool ^.^ Asmodeus90 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 03:25, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

What

I thought The Exorcist had a big connection to Pazuzu. Either I was wrong, or Wiki has decided (in its infinite wisdom) to purge all cultural references from the article. Oh well. Thanks, guys. --142.177.109.104 (talk) 01:41, 4 January 2009 (UTC)