Definitions for Aruru

Aruru A·ru·ru

Spelling: [ah-roo-roo]
IPA: /ɑˈru ru/

Aruru is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in Aruru (arruu).

Definitions for Aruru

noun

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

Examples for Aruru

The goddess Aruru created the seed of men together with him.

Aruru washes her hands, takes a bit of clay, and throws it on the ground.

After this incidental mention of Aruru, the narrative passes back undisturbed to Marduk.

To Gilgamesh, Eabani's coming is revealed and he asks his mother Aruru to interpret the dream.

It becomes plausible, therefore, to trace the tradition ascribing the creation of man to Aruru to the same place.

Aruru washed her hands, she broke off a piece of clay, she cast it on the ground.

Have we perhaps in Aruru the real name of the old goddess of Erech?

Aruru being a goddess, it was not so easy to have Marduk take up her rôle, as he supplanted Bel.

I venture to suggest, therefore, that Aruru and Ishtar of Erech are one and the same personage.

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

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