Thammuz
Britishnoun
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One of the most ancient Saviors, Thammuz, is reported to have spent "twelve years in devout and contemplative retirement from the busy world."
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
In Phœnicia, in the ancient city of Byblos, a festival of two days was held every year in honor of Adonis, or Thammuz, as the Phœnicians called him.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
This myth, reproduced in Syria and Greece in the legends of Thammuz, Adonis, and perhaps Absyrtus, represents the annual death of the Sun or the Year under the influences of the winter darkness.
From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave
It rebukes them sternly whenever they are immoral, and lead men to do bad and foul deeds, as Ezekiel rebuked the Jewish women who wept for Thammuz, the dead summer.
From Discipline and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley
Recurring back to the eighth Cycle, we observe the advent of that period of Chrishna, Zoroaster 2d, Bali, Thammuz, Atys, Osiris, and several others.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
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