Sumerians, Hebrews, Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians, and others believed that gateways on earth symbolize celestial openings through which dark-influences and light-influences seek entry. It was therefore important to use imitative magic for protection against undesirable entities at homes and cities. Gateways (stargates) represented on earth in Assyrian archways were, for instance, built using elaborate construction ceremonies and blessed by names of good omens. While smaller versions of protection-deities guarded individual home entries, colossal transgenic creatures flanked city gates and palace entries to keep undesirable forces from coming through those portals--important imitative magic thought to represent heavenly ideas--guardians that were often accompanied by winged spirits holding magic devices atop protective statuettes concealed beneath floors.
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