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title: Khumaba
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<h2 id="khumaba">Khumaba</h2>

The khumaba is a Babylonian **giant** mentioned in the epic of **Gilgamesh**. With lion's claws and a body covered in bronze scales, it also had bull's horns on its forehead, vulture's talons, and genitals in the shape of a serpent's head.