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Girru

noun
1.
The Babylonian god of fire; often invoked in incantations against sorcery.





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... the god of fire, sometimes transcribed Girru by Assyriologists, the meaning apparently being "the fire-bearer" or "light-bearer." Girru is another name of this deity, and translates an ideographic group, rendered by Delitzsch "great" or "highest decider," suggesting the custom of trial by ordeal. He was identified ...
— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Theophilus G. Pinches


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