A Origem dos Demônios na Suméria e no Mundo Antigo | Hora Boa Podcast

Full Episode: The Origin of Demons (with Tupá Guerra / @umatupanotempo)    • A Origem dos demônios - com @umatupanotempo   Historian Tupá Guerra recounts how she ended up dedicating her career to the study of demons — from the Book of Tobit and the demon Asmodeus to the Dead Sea Scrolls — and goes back to the oldest origins of the idea of ​​"evil." She explains the "demon of the gaps" (the supernatural explanation for everything that was not understood, such as disease), shows that the first written incantation of Sumeria was made to cure toothache, and presents the concept of melamu: the frightening metaphysical presence that is not always bad. In the end, the apotropaic function — the monster with a hideous face whose function was, in fact, to protect. #horaboa #horaboapodcast #podcast #demons #history #mythology #antiquity