Dumuzid

bunching Mythology portal bunching bunching Not to be confused with Dumuzid, the Fisherman Dumuzid , called the Shepherd , from Bad-tibira in Sumer , was the 5th pre-dynastic king on the Sumerian king list (before ca. 2900 BC). He is considered a precursor to the Babylonian god Tammuz . According to a story found on a broken tablet known as "Inanna prefers the Farmer," he and the farmer-deity Enkimdu argued for some time over who would win the hand of the goddess Inanna. The tablet is broken at this point, and the rest has never been found, but later stories make it clear that Dumuzid was chosen (see " Enkimdu "). The story has a possible parallel in the Biblical story of Cain and Abel ( Book of Genesis 4:1-16).

Dumuzid (sometimes transcribed as Dumuzi ), called "the Shepherd", from Bad-tibira in Sumer , was, according to the Sumerian King List , the fifth predynastic king in the legendary period before the Deluge . The list further states that Dumuzid ruled for 36,000 years.

Sumerian god Not to be confused with Dumuzid the Fisherman . Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz ( ; ; ), known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd ( ) and to the Canaanites as Adon ( ; Proto-Hebrew : 𐤀𐤃𐤍), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity associated with agriculture and shepherds , who was also the first and primary consort of the goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar ). In Sumerian mythology, Dumuzid's sister was Geshtinanna , the goddess of agriculture, fertility, and dream interpretation. In the Sumerian King List , Dumuzid is listed as an antediluvian king of the city of Bad-tibira and also an early king of the city of Uruk . In Inanna's Descent into the Underworld , Inanna perceives that Dumuzid has failed to properly mourn her death and, when she returns from the Underworld , allows the galla demons to drag him down to the Underworld as her replacement. Inanna later regrets this decision and decrees that Dumuzid will spend half the year in the Underworld, but the other half of the year with her, while his sister Geshtinanna stays in the Underworld in his place, thus resulting in the cycle of the seasons. In the Sumerian poem Inanna Prefers the Farmer , Dumuzid competes against the farmer Enkimdu for Inanna's hand in marriage. Gilgamesh references Tammuz in Tablet VI of the Epic of Gilgamesh as the love of Ishtar's youth, who was turned into an allalu bird with a broken wing. Dumuzid was associated with fertility and vegetation and the hot, dry summers of Mesopotamia were believed to be caused by Dumuzid's yearly death. During the month in midsummer bearing his name , people all across Mesopotamia would engage in public, ritual mourning for him. The cult of Dumuzid later spread to the Levant and to Greece, where he became known under the West Semitic name Adonis . The cult of Ishtar and Tammuz continued to thrive until the eleventh century AD and survived in parts of Mesopotamia as late as the eighteenth century. Tammuz is mentioned by name in the Book of Ezekiel (e.g., Ezek. 8:14–15 ) and possibly alluded to in other passages from the Hebrew Bible . In late nineteenth and early twentieth century scholarship of religion , Tammuz was widely seen as a prime example of the archetypal dying-and-rising god , but the discovery of the full Sumerian text of Inanna's Descent in the mid-twentieth century appeared to disprove the previous scholarly assumption that the narrative ended with Dumuzid's resurrection and instead revealed that it ended with Dumuzid's death. However, the rescue of Dumuzid from the underworld was later found in the text Return of Dumuzid , translated in 1963. "The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature" . etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk . There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).

Sumerian god Not to be confused with Dumuzid the Fisherman and Tammuz, the Hebrew or Babylonian month . Without proper rendering support , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz ( Sumerian : 𒌉𒍣 , romanized: Dumuzid ; Akkadian : Duʾūzu, Dûzu ; Hebrew : תַּמּוּז , romanized : Tammūz ), known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd ( Sumerian : 𒌉𒍣𒉺𒇻 , romanized: Dumuzid sipad ) and to the Canaanites as Adon ( Phoenician : 𐤀𐤃𐤍 ; Proto-Hebrew : 𐤀𐤃𐤍), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity associated with agriculture and shepherds , who was also the first and primary consort of the goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar ). In Sumerian mythology, Dumuzid's sister was Geshtinanna , the goddess of agriculture, fertility, and dream interpretation. In the Sumerian King List , Dumuzid is listed as an antediluvian king of the city of Bad-tibira and also an early king of the city of Uruk . In Inanna's Descent into the Underworld , Inanna perceives that Dumuzid has failed to properly mourn her death and, when she returns from the Underworld , allows the galla demons to drag him down to the Underworld as her replacement. Inanna later regrets this decision and decrees that Dumuzid will spend half of the year in the Underworld, but the other half of the year with her, while his sister Geshtinanna stays in the Underworld in his place, thus resulting in the cycle of the seasons. In the Sumerian poem Inanna Prefers the Farmer , Dumuzid competes against the farmer Enkimdu for Inanna's hand in marriage. Gilgamesh references Tammuz in Tablet VI of the Epic of Gilgamesh as the love of Ishtar's youth, who was turned into an allalu bird with a broken wing. Dumuzid was associated with fertility and vegetation and the hot, dry summers of Mesopotamia were believed to be caused by Dumuzid's yearly death. During the month in midsummer bearing his name , people all across Mesopotamia would engage in public, ritual mourning for him. The cult of Dumuzid later spread to the Levant and to Greece, where he became known under the West Semitic name Adonis . The cult of Ishtar and Tammuz continued to thrive until the eleventh century AD and survived in parts of Mesopotamia as late as the eighteenth century. Tammuz is mentioned by name in the Book of Ezekiel (e.g., Ezek. 8:14–15 ) and possibly alluded to in other passages from the Hebrew Bible . In late nineteenth and early twentieth century scholarship of religion , Tammuz was widely seen as a prime example of the archetypal dying-and-rising god , but the discovery of the full Sumerian text of Inanna's Descent in the mid-twentieth century appeared to disprove the previous scholarly assumption that the narrative ended with Dumuzid's resurrection and instead revealed that it ended with Dumuzid's death. However, the rescue of Dumuzid from the underworld was later found in the text Return of Dumuzid , translated in 1963. "The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature" . etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk . There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).