- marks, boxes, or
other symbols instead of
cuneiform script.
Dumuzid or
Dumuzi or
Tammuz (Sumerian: 𒌉𒍣, romanized: Dumuzid; Akkadian: Duʾūzu, Dûzu; Hebrew:...
- her freedom. She
selects Dumuzi, her spouse, who is
abruptly transported to the Underworld. In
response to the
pleas of
Dumuzi's sister, Geshtinanna, his...
-
Mesopotamian goddess best
known due to her role in
myths about the
death of
Dumuzi, her brother. It is not
certain what
functions she
fulfilled in the Mesopotamian...
- most
contexts Dumuzi-abzu
should not be
confused with
Dumuzi, the
husband of Inanna, even
though her name
could be
shortened to
Dumuzi. It is nonetheless...
-
Belili was a
Mesopotamian goddess. This name
refers both to a
sister of
Dumuzi known from some of the
texts pertaining to his death, and to a primordial...
- him. The
galla then drag
Dumuzi down to the underworld.
Another text
known as
Dumuzi's Dream (ETCSL 1.4.3)
describes Dumuzi's repeated attempts to evade...
-
attested tradition additionally regarded her as the
mother of the
dying god
Dumuzi,
indicating a
degree of
conflation with his
usual mother Duttur. She could...
- 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...
- of Inanna" was a
corruption from the
original reading of "the
fisherman Dumuzi(d), the
fisherman of Inanna(k)". However, this
possibility cannot be conclusively...
-
underworld and
sometimes war. He was
commonly ****ociated with snakes. Like
Dumuzi, he was
believed to
spend a part of the year in the land of the dead. He...
