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Ruda is a deity that was of paramount importance in the Arab pantheon of gods worshipped by the North Arabian tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia. The etymology of his name gives the meaning "well disposed" an indication of his function as a protective deity. The oldest reference to Ruda is found in the annals of Esarhaddon who ruled over the Assyrian empire from 681 to 669 BC. The name is transliterated into Latin script from the original Akkadian as Ru-ul-da-a-a-ú and he is mentioned among the gods of the Arabs. Known as Arsu among the Palmyrans, in a later Aramaic inscription, Arsu/Ruda is paired with the Syrian god Resheph, a protective deity for his worshippers from the 3rd millennium BC.
Dierk Lange writes that Ruda formed part of a trinity of gods worshipped by the Assyrian-attested Yumu´il confederation of northern Arabian tribes, which he identifies with the Ishmaelites. According to Lange, Ruda was the moon deity, Nuha the sun deity, and Atarsamain the main deity was associated with Venus.
Inscriptions in a North Arabian dialect found in the region of Najd refer to Ruda and other gods of the Arab pantheon, providing evidence of how all things good and bad were attributed to the agency of gods. Examples of such inscriptions referring to Ruda include, "by Ruda are we" and "by Ruda is weeping".
A trinity of gods representing the sun, moon and Venus is also found among the peoples of the South Arabian kingdoms of Awsan, Ma'in, Qataban and Hadramawt between the 9th and 4th centuries BC. There, the deity associated with Venus was Astarte, the sun deity was Yam, and moon deity was variously called Wadd, Amm and Sin.
Ruda (Rakovník District) is a village and municipality in Rakovník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
Ruda is a village and municipality ( obec) in Žďár nad Sázavou District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.
The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 337 (as at 28 August 2006).
Ruda lies approximately south-east of Žďár nad Sázavou, east of Jihlava, and south-east of Prague.
Ruda is an uninhabited islet in Croatia, part of the Elaphiti Islands archipelago off the coast of southern Dalmatia, near Dubrovnik. It is located between the islands of Lopud and Šipan. Its area is 0.296 km and its coastline is 2.37 km long. The highest point on Ruda is 81 m high.
Ruda is a small river in the Dalmatian Zagora region of Croatia. It is the left tributary of the Cetina river, into which it flows about 1 km north of Trilj. The Orlovac Hydroelectric Power Plant, located partly in the Split-Dalmatia County and partly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, discharges the water used to generates power into the Ruda river.