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Anu (Akkadian: 𒀭𒀀𒉡 ANU, from 𒀭 an "Sky", "Heaven") or Anum, originally An (Sumerian: 𒀭 An), [10] was the divine personification of the sky, king of the gods, and ancestor of many of the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion. He was regarded as a source of both divine and human kingship, and opens the enumerations of deities in ...
The Greek sky-god Ouranos (whose name means "Heaven") is the father of the Titans [65] and is derived from the Hittite version of Anu. [66] In Hesiod's account, Ouranos is castrated by his son Cronus, [67] just as Anu was castrated by his son Kumarbi in the Hittite story. [68]
Anu is a given name and surname found independently in several cultures. The Indian name is a short form of Anuradha , Anurag , Anubhooti, etc. The Finnish and Estonian name is derived from the Karelian variant of the name Anna , which became popular after Kersti Bergroth 's play Anu ja Mikko of 1932.
Dayenu page from Birds' Head Haggada. Dayenu (Hebrew: דַּיֵּנוּ , Dayyēnū) is a song that is part of the Jewish holiday of Passover.The word "dayenu" means approximately "it would have been enough," "it would have been sufficient," or "it would have sufficed" (day-in Hebrew is "enough," and -ēnu the first person plural suffix, "to us").
The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific is a specialist centre of Asian and Pacific studies and languages, among the largest collections of experts in these fields of any university in the English-speaking world. [68]
Anu has particular associations with Munster: the pair of breast shaped hills known as the Paps of Anu (Dá Chích Anann or "the breasts of Anu") [5] in County Kerry are said to have been named after her. [2] Her name has the meaning of "wealth, riches, and prosperity."
Anu, a 1998 Indian film by Satarupa Sanyal; aṇu, the Sanskrit term for "smallest particle of matter" in Indian atomism, pronounced and more commonly spelled as "arnoo". ānu, a Sanskrit term for "man" or "foreigner" and the name of a Vedic tribe; Anu (fly), a genus of Hoverfly; anu, a.k.a. mashua, an Andean vegetable
Anurag (Devanagari: अनुराग) (pronounced "Anurāg"), sometimes shorted Anu, is a common Indian first name. There are various meanings of Anurag in Sanskrit such as attachment, devotion, passion and eternal love. Notable people named Anurag include: Anurag Basu, Bollywood film director, actor and producer