Pronounced: “LAW-me-ah”
Lamia started out as a Libyan Berber spirit who may or may not have evolved into the Greek sea god Poseidon’s daughter, a shark goddess, and/or a Libyan queen who had an affair with Zeus (of course) and was cursed by Hera. There is also a possibility she evolved from the Sumerian goddess Lamashtu. Lamashtu could pop her eyes out a…
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