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Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz (Sumerian: ๐๐ฃ, romanized: Dumuzid; Akkadian: Duสพลซzu, Dûzu; Hebrew: ืชึทึผืึผืึผื, romanized: Tammลซz), [a] [b] known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd (Sumerian: ๐๐ฃ๐บ๐ป, romanized: Dumuzid sipad) [3] and to the Canaanites as Adon (Phoenician: ๐ค๐ค๐ค; Proto-Hebrew: ๐ค๐ค๐ค), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity ...
Another myth involving Geshtinanna is Dumuzi and Geshtinanna, though Dina Katz remarks that despite its conventional title this text focuses chiefly on the galla and the roles of Geshtinanna, Dumuzi, and Inanna are passive. [60] Dumuzi hides in Geshtinanna's dwelling after being offered as a substitute to the galla by Inanna, who in this case ...
Dumuzi-abzu is a local goddess who was the tutelary goddess of Kinunir, a settlement in the territory of the state of Lagash. [327] Her name, which probably means "good child of the Abzu", [137] was sometimes abbreviated to Dumuzi, [137] but she has no obvious connection to the god Dumuzi. [137]
Inanna and Enki (ETCSL t.1.3.1) is a lengthy poem written in Sumerian, which may date to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112 BCE – c. 2004 BCE); [212] it tells the story of how Inanna stole the sacred mes from Enki, the god of water and human culture. [213]
This rearrangement, whether intentional or not, has the effect of making Inanna responsible for her husband Dumuzi's death. Her conclusion is based on the complete absence of Inanna from the Dream Dumuzi myth. A myth in which the central character is Dumuzi, in the form of a god/shepherd whose nature is reduced to being taken by demons and ...
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]
Enkimdu (๐ญ๐๐ ๐ ๐บ) was a Mesopotamian god associated with agriculture and irrigation.He is best known from the poem Dumuzi and Enkimdu, but in laments he was instead connected with the god Martu, who like Dumuzi could be described and depicted as a shepherd.
The cause is a raid on Dumuzi s dwelling conducted by Bilulu and her son Girgire. [9] 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]