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Arallu

American  
[ah-rah-loo] / ɑˈrɑ lu /
Or Aralu

noun

  1. the ancient Babylonian world of the dead.


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Possibly the prophet in speaking of arelim had in mind the Babylonian Arallu, “the nether-world”; see Ex.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

Arali, or Arallu, the Land of the Dead, 157; its connection with the Sacred Mountain, 276.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)