Chest and heart — constriction

Vital centre under attack

The chest focus marks constriction, fear, and disturbance of vitality as a readable scene in which an affliction is being named and countered. The anatomical-left placement follows the heart's visual region, while the demon-to-heart pairing remains an interpretive synthesis rather than a fixed Mesopotamian organ doctrine.

Head — fever and oppressive attackFace and eyes — hostile gazeThroat — seized breath and speechChest and heart — constrictionChest and heart — constrictionBelly — Labāṣu afflictionPelvis — generative vulnerabilityLimbs and skin — spreading disturbance

Point 4 of 7 in Mesopotamian Body Demons — Affliction Map

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Maqlû (The Burning) (primary_canonical)

Tablets I–VII preserve Babylonian anti-witchcraft incantations and the accompanying nocturnal burning ritual; the series documents agents, symptoms, and ritual countermeasures but does not provide a normalized anatomical chart.

Canonical Udug-hul incantations (scholarly_modern)

Edition and study of the canonical udug-hul exorcistic corpus, including its language of demonic attack, bodily distress, and the exorcist's ritual response; it is used here to distinguish textual affliction language from this editorial body projection.

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