Aruru was a Mesopotamian goddess. The origin of her name is presently uncertain. While initially considered an independent deity associated with vegetation...

Aruru may refer to: Aruru, a Mesopotamian goddess of vegetation at some point conflated with Ninhursag Aruru (Keroro Land), a character in the anime and...

alongside Ninhursag, Ninmah, Aruru and Nintur. It is uncertain whether these were all regarded as variant names for the same goddess or different goddesses...

though Jeremy Black instead presumed that the goddess who receives it should be identified as Aruru, not Sud. This event is followed by a short description...

name Hutellura seemed to refer to a singular goddess, corresponding to Mesopotamian Ninmah, Nintu or Aruru. He concludes that it can be assumed they were...

there is no evidence that Ninsun was ever regarded as a mother goddess similar to Aruru or Ninhursag. Ninsun refers to Anu and Urash as her father and...

also serve as epithets of Nisaba, including Aruru, Ezina-Kusu and Kusu (in this context meaning "goddess filled with purity"), without necessarily implying...

written in Linear B syllabic script, originally meant "plough". Aruru, a Mesopotamian goddess associated with vegetation at some point conflated with Ninhursag...

abuses his people. In response to complaints from the citizens, the goddess Aruru creates Enkidu in the steppe. Abundantly hairy and primitive, he lives...

and due to this theonym's structure compares it to names such as Alala, Aruru, Belili or Zababa. As already argued by Volkert Haas in the 1970s, it might...

names of established goddesses, in addition to Geshtinanna for example Aruru or Aya. This form of Geshtinanna's is attested for example in the Canonical...

Sumerian goddess of love and fertility – mezzo-soprano Siduri Sabitu, guardian of entrance to the Garden of Gods – soprano Aruru, Sumerian goddess of creation...

Epic of Gilgamesh states that the goddess Aruru created humans out of clay. The epic goes on to narrate how Aruru also creates Enkidu out of clay as...

ISBN 978-1-948488-07-5. OCLC 1103440509. Black, Jeremy (2005). "Songs of the Goddess Aruru". In Sefati, Yitzhak (ed.). An experienced scribe who neglects nothing:...

original on 2022-10-24. Retrieved 2021-07-28. Beckman, Gary (1999). "The Goddess Pirinkir and Her Ritual from Ḫattuša (CTH 644)". Ktèma: Civilisations de...

an epithet referring to Nisaba and Aruru in their respective vegetation-related roles. The Mesopotamian grain goddess was already worshiped in the Uruk...

Nanaya Nanshe Nisaba Ninegal Ningal Ningikuga Ningirida Ningirima Ninhursag (Aruru, Damgalnuna, Damkina, Ninmah, Nintu) Ninigizibara Ninimma Ninisina Ninkarrak...

modern scholars. Enkidu was created as a companion to Gilgamesh by the goddess Aruru, and civilised by a priestess. As Gilgamesh and Enkidu were of similar...

apparition of this monstrous creature and appeal to the moon god Sin or the goddess Aruru who addresses Tišpak/Nergal to counter the threat and "exercise kingship"...

the horrors of their ruler and ask Aruru to create a companion for Gilgamesh so that he may be distracted; Aruru creates Enkidu; Gilgamesh learns about...

other divine names whose origin also remains a mystery, such as Alala, Aruru, Bunene and Zababa. Belili is also attested as an ordinary given name, one...

and mythologies. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu is created by the goddess Aruru out of clay. In Greek mythology, Prometheus molded men out of water...

spelled Ninšubura, was a Mesopotamian goddess whose primary role was that of the sukkal (divine attendant) of the goddess Inanna. While it is agreed that in...

Ninmug or Ninmuga was a Mesopotamian goddess. She was associated with artisanship, especially with metalworking, as evidenced by her epithet tibira kalamma...

goddesses of similar character: Nin-dingir-re-e-ne, Ninmah, Nintur, Ninmena, Aruru, Dingirmaḫ, Mama (not to be confused with Mammitum) and Belet-ili, though...

to this end. A particularly close parallel is the creation of Enkidu by Aruru in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Tawny L. Holm has additionally compared the account...

Assyriologie, retrieved 2022-10-18 Black, Jeremy (2005). "Songs of the Goddess Aruru". In Sefati, Yitzhak (ed.). An experienced scribe who neglects nothing:...

may be a reference to the Sumerian myth of such a monster created by goddess Aruru to fight Gilgamesh. In contrast to contemporary Egyptian and Mesopotamian...

the Isin-Larsa period literary composition Lament for Eridu names the goddess Aruru in that role. It has also been suggested that there were temples of...

analogous section of An = Anum, which only lists Ninhursag, Ninmah, Dingirmaḫ, Aruru and Nintur. It is a matter of scholarly debate if by the Old Babylonian...