Tammuz or Tamuz Arabic تمّوز Tammūz; Hebrew תַּמּוּז, Standard Hebrew Tammuz, Tiberian Hebrew Tammûz; Akkadian Duʾzu, Dūzu; Sumerian Dumuzi was the name of a Babylonian deity. See also Tammuz (month). Tammuz - Ritual mourning. In Babylonia, the month Tammuz was established in honor of the eponymous god Tammuz, who originated as a Sumerian shepherd-god, Dumuzid or Dumuzi, the consort of Inanna and in hi ...

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• Tammuz - Ritual mourning
• Tammuz - The Myth
• Tammuz - An older interpretation
• Tammuz - Tammuz in Tamil culture

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In the Sumerian King List Dumuzid the Fisherman appears as "Dumuzi the Fisherman, whose city was Kua, reigned 100 years" the third king of the first dynasty of Uruk, reigning between Lugalbanda and Gilgamesh the son of Lugalbanda, a situation not explained in extant texts. Nor is it explained why in other texts Dumuzid is always a shepherd, not a fisherman. The king list does list a Dumuzid the shepherd the fifth of the kings who reigned in Eridu before the flood. But Eridu, surrounded by freshwater marshes, is exactly where one would exp ...

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Tammuz, Tammuz - Ritual mourning, Tammuz - The Myth, Tammuz - An older interpretation, Tammuz - Tammuz in Tamil culture

Read more here: » Tammuz: Encyclopedia II - Tammuz - The Myth

In the Sumerian King List Dumuzid the Fisherman appears as "Dumuzi the Fisherman, whose city was Kua, reigned 100 years" the third king of the first dynasty of Uruk (Dumuzi is likely Tammuzh or Tamizhi - a Pandyan king of ancient Tamil Nadu in South India,with his capital at Kuadam, his emblem as "fish"="min"), reigning between Lugalbanda and Gilgamesh the son of Lugalbanda, a situation not explained in extant texts. Nor is it explained why in other texts Dumuzid is always a shepherd, not a fisherman. The king list does list a Dumuzid the sh ...

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Tammuz, Tammuz - Ritual mourning, Tammuz - The Myth, Tammuz - An older interpretation, Tammuz - Tammuz in Tamil culture

Read more here: » Tammuz: Encyclopedia II - Tammuz - The Myth

Based on the texts first found, it was assumed that Ishtar/Inana's descent into Kur occurred after the death of Tammuz/Dumuzid rather than before and that her purpose was to rescue Tammuz/Dumuzid. This is the familiar form of the myth as it appeared in M. Jastrow's "Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into the Lower World", 1915, widely available on the Internet. Though new texts uncovered in 1963 filled in the story in quite another fashion, the old interpretation still lingers on. Aside from the extended epic "The Descent of Inanna," a previousl ...

See also:

Tammuz, Tammuz - Ritual mourning, Tammuz - The Myth, Tammuz - An older interpretation, Tammuz - Tammuz in Tamil culture

Read more here: » Tammuz: Encyclopedia II - Tammuz - An older interpretation