Religion:Aplu (deity)
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Aplu was a Hurrian deity of the plague — bringing it, or, if propitiated, protecting from it — and resembles Apollo Smintheus, "mouse-Apollo".[1][2] Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning "the son of Enlil", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.[3] [failed verification] Aplu may be related with Apaliunas who is considered to be the Hittite reflex of *Apeljōn, an early form of the name “Apollo”.[4]
See also
- Apaliunas
- Apollo
- Agyieus
- Etruscan deities, Aplu
References
- ↑ "smintheus" (Perseus.tufts) σμινθεύς
- ↑ Homer. Iliad, i. 37-39.
- ↑ De Grummond, Nancy Thomson (2006) Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology); Mackenzie, Donald A. (2005) Myths of Babylonia and Assyria (Gutenberg)
- ↑ John L. Angel; Machteld Johanna Mellink (1986). Troy and the Trojan War: A Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College, October 1984. Bryn Mawr Commentaries. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-929524-59-7.
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