APTALEON

In Babylonian myth, the Aptaleon was a beast with a goat’s body and two serrated horns with which it felled trees, sawing away at the wood. This work raised a great thirst which was only quenched by the waters of the Euphrates river. If the Aptaleon wandered into the desert and found an erechire bush, its horns would become locked fast in the branches. (See Analopos.)