Utu

• “They trace the origin of the name of their place to Lautalatoa of Fiji, whose son, called Utu, resided there.”

  Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before

• “Utu' would thus again designate the sun as 'that which shines forth.”

  The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

• “The first is a page from "The Beasts of Kay-7" A new comic to debut at Stumptown, and the second image is the cover of "Utu" my first comic. ”

  The Comics Journal

• “Utu was radical but hasn't had the kindness of time.”

  Sundance Video Review: Taika Waititi's New Film 'Boy' « FirstShowing.net

• “He protests vigorously and is helped to escape by his brother-in-law Utu, the Sun-god.”

  Valerie Tarico: Ancient Sumerian Origins of the Easter Story

• “That is to say, Sumerian Utu-zi 'Life-breath of the sun' would have become a partial calque Ut(a)-napishtim which would be reinterpreted by scribes and priests to mean 'he found (uta-) life-breath (napishtim)' (nb. the replacement of Sum. utu 'sun' with Bab. ūta 'found') and thus back into Sumerian with the reformulated Zi-ud-sura 'Life of long days', now implying a character who has found immortality.”

  Archive 2009-11-01

• “This combined with a free-word association with Utnapishtim, the legendary Babylonian survivor of the World Flood, evokes a Sumerian name Utu-zi 'Life-breath of the sun' being readapted to Ut-napishtim napishtim = 'life, breath' but still written in script using the Sumerograms UD-ZI1.”

  Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim

• “However, the question is exactly how the name entered Greek and how a Sumerian name Utu-zi suggested by the Babylonian rendering of the name Utnapishtim UD.ZItim might have even influenced Greek if Sumerian is said to have been a dead language by the beginning of the 2nd millenium BCE!”

  A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus

• “Wallis and Futunaname: Mata-Utu (on Ile Uvea) geographic coordinates: 13 57 S, 171 56 W time difference: UTC+12 (17 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)”

  Capital

• “Capital: name: Mata-Utu (on Ile Uvea) geographic coordinates: 13 57 S, 171 56 W time difference: UTC+12 (17 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)”

  Wallis and Futuna

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