Sender Spike
Jan 12, 2022

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I just wonder that in none of these articles you mention Dumuzid (Tammuz).

- oldest mention dates back to c. 2600 BCE (the cult, however, must be much older as he's originally a Sumerian deity / king, the cult is also explicitly mentioned in Tanakh)

- he was a shepherd and also a fisherman king (i.e. he was man and god)

- he was essentially a god of sustenance (god of shepherds, agriculture, and milk)

- he was associated with date palm

- he was sacrificed in order for Inanna to escape from the land of dead

- (regularly) dies in March-April (though in 7th century BCE this was moved to June-July)

- (regularly) resurrects in autumn

- according to some sources his father is unknown

- etc.

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