Dumuzi
Americannoun
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Tammuz, the Babylonian "Dumuzi," was the god of spring vegetation, who dies, going down to Hades, and revives again with each returning summer.
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Thus the crab is a figure of ‘the darkness power’ which seized the Accadian solar hero, Dumuzi, and ‘which is constantly represented in monstrous and drakontic form.’
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Erech had been governed by the divine Dumuzi, the husband of the goddess Ishtar.
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Tammuz is Dumuzi, “the true son,” or more fully, Dumuzi-absu, “true son of the waters.”
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Thus the crab is a figure of ‘the darkness power’ which seized the Akkadian solar hero, Dumuzi, and ‘which is constantly represented in monstrous and drakontic form.’
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