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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 ...
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]
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 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]
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 ...
Ereshkigal- Sumerian goddess of the underworld. She is the twin sister of Inanna. She disguises herself as Inanna and tells the other avatars that she is an avatar and her name is Ereka. She is jealous of Inanna's power over men and gets very mad at Gus when he rejects her in favor of Diana.
Due to Dumuzi's marriage to Inanna, Geshtinanna was the sister-in-law of this goddess. [8] She is directly referred to as her "beloved sister-in-law" in the composition labeled as Inanna D in modern literature, though she is only listed after the members of her immediate family ( Ningal , Suen , Utu , Dumuzi) and Ninshubur , addressed as the ...
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]