Zu

People with the name Zu:Zu Chongzhi, a Chinese mathematicianZU may refer to:Helios Airways (IATA code)Zu may refer to:Zu (mythology), a lesser god in Akkadian mythologyZu (band), an Italian hardcore/jazz bandZu (genus), a genus of ribbonfishesEn Zu, a character from the manga series Stray Little Devil.Zu, a large birdlike monster from the Final Fantasy series.
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Noun
1. evil storm god represented as a black bird
(synonym) Zubird
(hypernym) Semitic deity
(classification) Sumer

adj. closed, shut, closed up, locked up

adv. too, excessively; towards, in the direction of

prep. to, towards; at, in; on; for, in order to; into; as; of, with

[Mesopotamian] In Sumero-Akkadian mythology, Zu is a divine storm-bird and the personification of the southern wind and the thunder clouds. This demon, half man and half bird, stole the "Tablets of Destiny" from Enlil and hid them on a mountaintop. Anu ordered the other gods to retrieve the tablets, eventhough they all feared the demon. According to one text, Marduk killed the bird, but in another text it died through the arrows of the god Ninurta. The bird is also referred to as Imdugud or Anzu.

Zu (Babylonian) A Babylonian deity associated with cosmogony, represented as stripping the father of the gods of umsimi, usually translated "crown" but, as it was on the seat of Bel it was actually the "ideal creative organ." "Ham is the Chaldean Zu, and both are cursed for the same allegorically described crime," which parallels the mutilation of Uranos by Kronos and of Set by Horus (SD 2:284n).