Dumoozid – Mr. Clean the brand name and mascot, owned by Procter & Gamble and Dumuzid the Mesopotamian god of shepherds
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Dumoozid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Clean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumuzid
Dumoozid is a Djinni first encountered by your wizard in Caravan. He’s a little obsessive about cleanliness. He sent a warning the nomads of Mirage to come to Caravan on the Winds of Change. He is concerned that Eerkala the Dark Djinni has returned.
“What? Now you would contaminate my private chambers? By all that is clean and good, why? Do you hate sparkling clean? I just don’t understand… Actually, it doesn’t matter. I don’t care about your reasons. You have violated my personal space, and you will now suffer my immaculate wrath!” – Dumoozid
During the boss fight Dumoozid utters these phrases “More mess?? I’ll have none of that!“; “Let’s clean this up!“; “So much mess, I can’t take it!“; and “Behold the power of pure clean!” The last phrase was used as a tag line for Mr. Clean brand of household cleaner made by Procter & Gamble during the 1970s.
Mr. Clean is a brand name and mascot, owned by the American company Procter & Gamble, used for an all-purpose cleaner and later also for a melamine foam abrasive sponge.
The all-purpose cleaner was originally formulated by Linwood Burton, a marine ship cleaning businessman with accounts throughout the east coast of the United States and his friend, Mathusan Chandramohan, an entrepreneur from Sri Lanka.
Mr. Clean made his television commercial debut in 1958, initially portrayed in the live-action versions by character actor House Peters Jr.
The product’s mascot is the character Mr. Clean. In 1957, Harry Barnhart conceived the idea. Ernest C. Allen who was in the art department at the advertising agency Tatham-Laird & Kudner in Chicago, Illinois drew Mr. Clean as a muscular, tanned, bald man who cleans things very well.
According to Procter & Gamble, the original model for the image of Mr. Clean was a United States Navy sailor from the city of Pensacola, Florida, although some people may think he is a genie based on his earring, folded arms, and tendency to appear magically at the appropriate time. (One of the live-action commercials has a character directly refer to Mr. Clean as a genie).
Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd and to the Canaanites as Adon is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity associated with agriculture and shepherds, who was also the first and primary consort of the goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar see entry on Istar the Dreamy Genie). In the Sumerian King List, Dumuzid is listed as an antediluvian king of the city of Bad-tibira and also an early king of the city of Uruk.
The current list of all the (known) Mirage references can be found here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages
Dumoozid image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment
Mr. Clean is copyright Procter & Gamble
Dumuzid and Inanna image is copyright Françoise Foliot and borrowed from Wikipedia. It is shared under the CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons license
Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
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