Naru

Naru is the conventional reading of a name or title that occurs repeatedly in Naduman texts. The term is associated with written questions followed by a return, a non-phonemic sign, or no recorded response.nnThe earliest texts describe unfamiliar recurring signs rather than a named god. Over time, those signs were analyzed by scribes and adapted into a human writing system. Religious interpretation appears later. By the ninth century BCE, some texts place Naru within the sphere of divine knowledge, while Questioner documents remain strikingly procedural. The surviving evidence does not establish what Naru was.