Going for some pre-monotheistic "Pagan" deities from the Middle East. In places like modern day Iraq and Syria, polytheistic gods were more of a regional thing than an actual pantheon in Semitic speaking areas. Each town and city like Nineveh, Mosul and especially Babylon had deities that were attached to the settlement, to the area, rather than just deities for different things in life like the sun or rivers, rain, etc. Sumerians did have a complete pantheon, but theirs was a language isolate not known to be related to Semitic or Indo-European languages---or any other language for that matter. In this film, all that gets kind of meshed together, along with some eastern African pre-Christian stuff. I guess we're meant to think that the ancient Sumerian "demon" ensconced in the church that shouldn't be was actually some entity that Sumerians referred as a god. For sure the statue is exactly the same from the first Exorcist film, only problem there, is that statuette was supposed to have been found in Nineveh, which is NOT a Sumerian town--it's way too far north for that.
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