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'''Aplu''' was a [[Hurrian]] deity of the plague — bringing it, or, if propitiated, protecting from it — and resembles [[Apollo Smintheus]], "mouse-Apollo" <ref>"smintheus" (Perseus.tufts) [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=sminqeus&la#lexicon σμινθεύς]</ref><ref>Homer. ''Iliad'', i. 37-39.</ref> Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the [[Akkadian]] ''Aplu Enlil'', meaning "the son of Enlil", a title that was given to the god [[Nergal]], who was linked to [[Shamash]], Babylonian god of the sun.<ref>De Grummond, Nancy Thomson (2006) ''Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend''. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology); Mackenzie, Donald A. (2005) ''Myths of Babylonia and Assyria'' (Gutenberg)</ref> {{Failed verification}}

Aplu may be related with [[Apaliunas]] who is considered to be the [[Hittite language|Hittite]] reflex of ''*Apeljōn'', an early form of the name [[Apollo]].<ref>{{cite book| author = John L. Angel| author2 = Machteld Johanna Mellink| title = Troy and the Trojan War: A Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College, October 1984| year = 1986| publisher = Bryn Mawr Commentaries| isbn = 978-0-929524-59-7| page = 42 }}</ref>

==See also==

*[[Apaliunas]]

*[[Apollo]]

*[[Agyieus]]

*[[List of Etruscan mythological figures|Etruscan deities, ''Aplu'']]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Hittite deities]]

[[Category:Hurrian deities]]

[[Category:Apollo]]

[[Category:Epithets of Apollo]]

[[Category:Plague gods]]