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Definition of Aruru
1. Noun. Mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic; identified with Sumerian Ki and Ninkhursag.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aruru
Literary usage of Aruru
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow (1898)
"I venture to suggest, therefore, that aruru and Ishtar of Erech are one and the
... Have we perhaps in aruru the real name of the old goddess of Erech ? ..."
2. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches (1906)
"aruru.—One of the deities of Sippar and aruru (in the time of the dynasty of ...
aruru was one of the names of the ' lady of the gods,' and aided Merodach ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"There are some of these people who at the present time even buy aruru, ...
The native chiefs then began to find it profitable to sell the aruru, ..."
4. The Expository Times by James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings (1889)
"... act of creation—an addition which indicates the importance attached to it in
the mind of the old Akkadian writer.1 The goddess aruru was patron-deity of ..."
5. Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations by Robert Francis Harper (1901)
"They also cried aloud to aruru,1 the goddess, saying: "aruru, who hast created
him, Create now a rival (?) to him, for the time when his heart shall be ..."
6. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys by Charles Francis Horne (1917)
"They implore the goddess Arum: " Thou, aruru, has created Gilgamesh. Now create
a rival to him! At the time when it pleases him let him come. ..."
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