Aruru

[ ah-roo-roo ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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

Origin of Aruru¹

First recorded in 1885–90

The elders of Uruk beg his mother, the mother-goddess Aruru (a form of Ishtar), to restrain him.

The divine beings hearkened, and the goddess Aruru made Eabani, the wild man, from a piece of clay.

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

The people in their distress appeal to Aruru to create a rival to Gilgamesh.

In this account of the creation it is stated (line 21) that the goddess Aruru with Marduk created mankind.

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