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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 ...
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 ...
Her name is derived from the Akkadian word kazbu, which can be translated as "sexual attraction." [358] Geshtinanna: Nippur, Isin, and Uruk [359] Geshtinanna was a rural agricultural goddess sometimes associated with dream interpretation. [360] She was the sister of Dumuzid, the god of shepherds. [360]
The name of Dumuzid's mother was usually written as d BU-du. [1] The possible readings of the cuneiform sign BU include sír and dur 7. [1] Duttur is the commonly accepted reading of the name in modern scholarship, [2] [3] [4] though the variant Durtur is also in use. [5] Other attested writings include the Emesal forms Zertu and Zertur and ...
[8] [9] No personal names with "Ereshkigal" as a theophoric element are known. [10] In the ancient Sumerian poem Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, Ereshkigal is described as Inanna's older sister. [11] However, this is a cultural artifact since the Sumerians used terms such as sister as a way to place each other on the same level in hierarchy.
Ancient Sumerian cylinder seal impression showing the god Dumuzid being tortured in the underworld by galla demons. The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erṣetu), was the lowermost part of the ancient near eastern cosmos, roughly parallel to the region known as Tartarus from early Greek cosmology.
Dumuzid, the fisherman, whose city was Kuara, ruled for 100 years. [c] He (Dumuzid) was taken captive by the (single hand of Enmebaragesi). [d] According to scholars, the sequence of the first Uruk dynasty was fabricated during the Ur III period, which didn't include comments about some rulers. The fabrication of king Dumuzid could have been ...
Afterwards, he and Ninhursag sleep together, resulting in a daughter, Ninsar [83] (called Ninnisig in the ETCSL translation, [84] Ninmu by Kramer [85]). Ninsar matures quickly, and after Enki spots her walking along the bank, sleeps with her, resulting in a daughter, Ninkurra. [83] [84] Enki spots her and sleeps with her as well, resulting in ...