Argbáktu: Pagan God of Treachery

Before the birth of Christianity and other major religions, people believed in multiple gods and other deities. Most people call this belief Paganism. Paganism was believed to be most practiced in Ancient Babylon times. People would travel miles to get to locations where they could worship the Pagan deities and even sacrifice to them.

One of the most unknown Pagan deities of all is Argbáktu, the god of treachery. The little information there is on Argbáktu states that the way people worshiped him was by sacrificing one of their family members. The sacrifice couldn’t be a ritual sacrifice; it had to be more of a murder or betrayal, you could say.

People would lead their unsuspecting family members to their deaths in the name of Argbáktu, and in return, they would get one wish. The wish could be anything they desired, but it is said that they would not receive the wish they asked for. Instead, the person would get the complete opposite. If they asked for immortality, they would immediately die. If they asked for wealth, they would become poor. It was Argbáktu’s way of repaying treachery with treachery.

Other information says that Argbáktu could possess people and force them to commit treachery. Some even speculate that he influenced world events such as Hitler betraying Stalin or Brutus killing Julius Caesar. The weirdest one of them all is that he possessed Judas to betray Jesus.

Just watch yourself out there, or you might be the next victim of treachery…