Idlurugu
mesopotamian god and legal procedure
Idlurugu (Sumerian: i7-lú-ru-gú, also read Ilurugu) or Id (dÍD) was a Mesopotamian god regarded as both a river deity and a divine judge. He was the personification of a type of trial by ordeal, which shared its name with him.
Idlurugu was chiefly worshiped in Id (modern Hit). However, he was not strongly associated with any location, but rather with trial of water alone, and as such appears in sources from many parts of the Ancient Near East.
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The term i7-lú-ru-gú, "the river that receives man" or "the river which confronts man," could refer both to the god (in which case it was preceded by the dingir sign denoting a word as a deity's name) or to the procedure. He could also be referred to as Id. The logogram ÍD, either with a dingir or without it, similarly designated the procedure itself as well. While it was usually read as id, there are also known instances where it was instead nārum, the Akkadian word for river. While nārum was grammatically feminine, the deity was always regarded as male. The names were used interchangeably.
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