Dumuzid
Dumuzid is Inanna's husband. When Inanna discovers that Dumuzid has not mourned her death, she becomes ireful towards him and orders the demons to take him as her replacement.
↻ synthesized from 7 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Caloian, Dodola, Yarilo, Gherman, Cinyras, Queen of Heaven, Huwawa, Agga, Attis, Morena, Baldr, Enki, Neti, An, Utu, Ninshubur, Ereshkigal, Shara, Lulal, Aphrodite, Persephone, Baal, Demeter, Xipe-Totec, Asherah, Ištar, Shamash, Bull of Heaven, Enkidu, Enlil, Ningishzida, Ninsun
- syncretized with
- Tammuz, Adonis, Ištaran, Ama-ušumgal-ana, Damu
- consort of
- Inanna
- sibling of
- Geshtinanna
- allied with
- Gilgamesh
- enemy of
- galla
- child of
- Sirtur
Mentioned by
- Attis
- Morena
- Baldr
- Enki
- Neti
- An
- Utu
- Ninshubur
- Ereshkigal
- Shara
- Lulal
- Aphrodite
- Persephone
- Baal
- Demeter
- Xipe-Totec
and 13 more
Sources
Source passages
“However, when she discovers that her husband, Dumuzid, has not mourned her death, she becomes ireful towards him and orders the demons to take him as her replacement.”
#12510 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Beginning with the writings of Marcu Beza, researchers have focused on the death-and-rebirth component of the practice, drawing connections between the Caloian and various religions of the Ancient Near East—with specific focus on Dumuzid and Attis.”
#14073 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The king would have sex with the priestess to represent the union of Dumuzid with Inanna.”
#20365 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The worship of Aphrodite and Adonis is probably a Greek continuation of the ancient Sumerian worship of Inanna and Dumuzid.”
#22806 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Towards the end of the epic poem Inanna's Descent into the Underworld (ETCSL 1.4.1), Dumuzid's wife Inanna escapes from the Underworld, but is pursued by a horde of galla demons, who insist that someone else must take her place in the Underworld. They first come upon Inanna's sukkal Ninshubur”
#25908 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001