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Absu
Absu or ABSU may refer to:
- Absu (band), a black metal musical group
- Absu (album), 2009 album by the band Absu
- Abzu, Mesopotamian deity also known as Absu
- Abia State University in Abia, Nigeria.
- All Bodo Students' Union, an organization seeking an independent Bodoland in India
- All Burma Students' Union, student group formed in the 1930s, and affiliated to the Dobama Asiayone
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Absu
[Other] In Chaldaen cosmology, Absu is the immense space, source of primeval waters where Ab, the father of the waters and lord of wisdom, lives.
Apsu
[Mesopotamian] A primeval Sumero-Akkadian god who personifies the primordial abyss of sweet waters underneath the earth. He is the consort of Tiamat, the primordial abyss of salt waters of Chaos. In the later mythology of the Enuma Elish, the sweet water mingled with the bitter waters of the sea and with a third watery element, perhaps cloud, the first gods were engendered. The waters of Apsu were thought of as held immobile underground by the 'spell' of Ea in a death-like sleep, but it is also said that Ea had Apsu fallen asleep and had killed him. From the clay of Apsu man was fashioned. This appears to be a Sumerian myth, because in the Enuma Elish, Kingu's blood serves this purpose. Apsu's vizir, Mummu, was imprisioned in a house built on his body.
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