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Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz (Sumerian: 𒌉𒍣, romanized: Dumuzid; Akkadian: Duʾūzu, Dûzu; Hebrew: תַּמּוּז, romanized: Tammūz), [a] [b] known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd (Sumerian: 𒌉𒍣𒉺𒇻, romanized: Dumuzid sipad) [3] and to the Canaanites as Adon (Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤍; Proto-Hebrew: 𐤀𐤃𐤍), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity ...
Dumuzid, later known by the corrupted form Tammuz, is the ancient Mesopotamian god of shepherds [131] and the primary consort of the goddess Inanna. [131] His sister is the goddess Geshtinanna. [131] [132] In addition to being the god of shepherds, Dumuzid was also an agricultural deity associated with the growth of plants.
Inanna receiving offerings on the Uruk Vase, circa 3200–3000 BCE. Scholars believe that Inanna and Ishtar were originally separate, unrelated deities, [13] but were conflated with one another during the reign of Sargon of Akkad and came to be regarded as effectively the same goddess under two different names.
Dumuzi-abzu was the tutelary goddess of Kinunir, a city located near Lagash. [2] It was also known under the name Kinirša. [3] It is not universally agreed that Kinnir was yet another form of the same name, [4] but Manfred Krebernik nonetheless argues that its city goddess, Nin-Kinnir, "lady of Kinnir," was a name of Dumuzi-abzu. [5]
The oldest writing of Geshtinanna's name was Amageshtin or Amageshtinanna, as attested in documents from Lagash from the Early Dynastic period. [1] There is no agreement over whether Amageshtin was a shortened form of Amageshtinanna or if the suffix-anna was added to a pre-existing name, but Manfred Krebernik argues the latter is more likely, as Amageshtin is attested as an ordinary personal ...
According to Richard L. Litke, the latter deity might also be mentioned in the god list An = Anum (tablet IV, line 264) though the glosses provided there would imply that in this case the name, while written as d GÍR.GÍR, should be read as Ulul. [11] Inanna is informed about Bilulu's role in the events by a nameless servant of Dumuzi. [9]
Copy of the Akkadian version of Ishtar's Descent into Hell, from the " Library of Ashurbanipal ' in Nineveh, 7th century BC, British Museum, UK.. The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld (or, in its Akkadian version, Descent of Ishtar into the Underworld) or Angalta ("From the Great Sky") is a Sumerian myth that narrates the descent of the goddess Inanna (Ishtar in Akkadian) into the ...
His name first occurs in the Ur III period as an ordinary given name, but its etymology is unknown. [66] He is also attested in sources postdating the last cuneiform texts, including the Book of Giants. [43] Ishtar: Ishtar (Sumerian Inanna) is a goddess associated with the planet Venus, [68] war and love. [69]