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  • The gods go to Aruru, the goddess who started all the trouble by creating Gilgamesh and the entire human race.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • The gods go to Aruru, the goddess who started all the trouble by creating Gilgamesh and the entire human race.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Aruru was the potter who not only fashioned figures from clay, but also breathed into them the animating energy of the universe.

    Donna Henes: Earth, Our Mother 2010

  • The people cry to the gods, and the goddess Aruru creates Enkidu, the Wild Man, who can match Gilgamesh's energies.

    Book Review: Gilgamesh the King 2007

  • The people cry to the gods, and the goddess Aruru creates Enkidu, the Wild Man, who can match Gilgamesh's energies.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • 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.

    Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

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

    Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

  • As Aruru she took part with him in the creation of mankind.

    Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

  • Apparently she was identical with Aruru, creatrix of the seed of mankind, who was associated with Merodach when the first man and the first woman were brought into being.

    Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

  • Gilgamish (Second Tablet) it was the goddess Aruru who created Enkidu

    The Babylonian Legends of the Creation 1895

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