Aruru

[ ah-roo-roo ]

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noun

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Aruru¹

First recorded in 1885–90

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Aruru was the goddess of progeny, and is one of the forty-one names by which “the lady of the gods” was known.

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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.

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

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Ultimately the people prayed to the goddess Aruru to create a liberator.

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

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Arunta Arusha

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