Aruru

American  

[ah-roo-roo] / ɑˈru ru /

noun

1. the Akkadian goddess personifying earth, who assisted Marduk in the creation of human beings: the counterpart of the Sumerian Ki.

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Etymology

Origin of Aruru

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

In another text she is called “Lady of the gods of Sippar and Aruru.”

From Project Gutenberg

The people sigh under the burden imposed, and call upon the goddess Aruru to create a being who might act as a rival to Gilgamesh, curb his strength, and dispute his tyrannous control.

From Project Gutenberg

At all events, the occurrence of Aruru in this second 'creation' story points to her as belonging to the district of which Erech was the center.

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The goddess Aruru, a deity of Sippar, and one of the forms of "the lady of the gods", is associated with Merodach as the creatrix of the seed of mankind.

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The goddess Aruru created the seed of mankind along with him.

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