Thammuz
Britishnoun
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In the Mysteries of Phoenicia, established in honor of Thammuz or Adoni, also the Sun, the spectacle of his death and resurrection was exhibited to the Initiates.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
The Account of Thammuz is finely Romantick, and suitable to what we read among the Ancients of the Worship which was paid to that Idol.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison
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
The daughters of Israel, weeping for Thammuz, mentioned by Ezekiel, sat looking to the North, and waiting for his return from that region.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
It was said to the Prophet, "Behold, I will shew thee worse things than these: women weeping to Thammuz."
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
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