Talk:Alû

Mythology Low‑importance

	Mythology portal This article is supported by WikiProject Mythology. This project provides a central approach to Mythology-related subjects on Wikipedia. Please participate by editing the article, and help us assess and improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the WikiProject page for more details.MythologyWikipedia:WikiProject MythologyTemplate:WikiProject MythologyMythology articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Ancient Near East

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ancient Near East, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Ancient Near East related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Ancient Near EastWikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near EastTemplate:WikiProject Ancient Near EastAncient Near East articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Alû received a peer review by Wikipedia editors, which is now archived. It may contain ideas you can use to improve this article.

mora, mara, nightmare, cauchemar, cialciut, incubus, alp, alben, elf... = Alû[edit]

Alû is clearly related to the familiar European legends that talk about incubi and phantasmagoric elves (*albh = white = phantom/lepper ?) bringing diseases and bad dreams. Why isn't such an interesting connection even mentioned in the text?

Make sure it doesn't fall under WP:NOR. Langdon, Allardice, and the Monster in My Pocket booklet have been the only mentions of Alû that I have yet found. --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 18:23, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment[edit]

I cannot find the Langdon book (from 1891!) on google books, and don't have the Allardice book on hand and am not sure how notable it is. The Monster in my Pocket booklet is hardly a WP:RS. I am beginning to wonder if this was an actual mythical creature, or if it this article is WP:OR, based on an out-of-date Langdon, and should be redirect to the Utukku article. Twofistedcoffeedrinker (talk) 18:50, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Langdon book is owned by the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, but only as a non-circulating reference item. At least it was--I don't see it in their catalog any longer. I did find Vol. V on Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cuneiform-Inscriptions-Selection-Miscellaneous-babylonia/dp/B000JJBB5A --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 20:49, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A serach for both Alu and Utukku gets over 700 hits on Google: http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us%3AIE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7SUNA&q=ALu+utukku --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 20:58, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the RFCPolicy tag. --CyclePat (talk) 19:03, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge discussion[edit]

Um... Sure? I can not begin to think of even the most bullshit postmodern reason to not merge them. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:41, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]