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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 mythology or religion of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine being closely associated with death, an afterlife, or an underworld. They are often amongst the most powerful and important entities in a given tradition, reflecting the fact that death, like birth , is central to the human experience.
Geshtinanna commonly appears in compositions about the death of Dumuzi, where she is one of the three most frequently recurring mourning goddesses, next to Inanna and Duttur. [50] Occasionally she also appears in texts about the death of other similar gods, for example Damu, normally mourned by his mother Ninisina and sister Gunura instead. [51]
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]
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]
Greek death goddesses (3 C, 8 P) L. Life-death-rebirth goddesses (5 C, 11 P) P. Persephone (7 C, 20 P) U. Underworld goddesses (6 C, 55 P) Pages in category "Death ...
Dumuzi's death is thus glorified, as it is caused by a goddess and allows this goddess to return to the world of the living. Consequently, through funeral rites, death is experienced by humans as that of Dumuzi: it is understood by the Mesopotamians as the end of one form of life and the beginning of another; therefore, it takes on meaning and ...
Bilulu was a Mesopotamian goddess who most likely functioned as the deification of rain clouds. She might be related to Ninbilulu known from a number of Early Dynastic texts. She is known from the myth Inanna and Bilulu, in which she is responsible for the death of Dumuzi. This event is subsequently avenged by Inanna, who turns Bilulu into a ...