Tammuz
Tammuz is a god who dies and later returns to life. He is cited as an example of a dying-and-rising god from the religions of the ancient Near East.
↻ synthesized from 10 sources
When
- First attested
- 2500 BCE
- Attested period
- -2500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested from ancient Near East.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Zagreus, Agdistis, Hannahannah, Innini, Mami, Pessinuntica, the Idaean Mother, Cinyras, Dingirmah, Dumuzid, Queen of Heaven, Enbilulu, Enmesharra, Lugaldukuga, Ariadne, Dione, Harmonia, Cadmus, Ilat, Adonai, Theia, Smyrna, Jesus, Attis, Dionysus, Osiris, Enki, An, Cybele, Ma, Nanna, Inanna, Persephone, Baal, Demeter, Asherah, Ninurta, Anzû, Enlil, Gula, Artemis (Diana), Ares, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Zeus, Ishtar
- consort of
- Ištar
- manifested by
- Dumuzid
Mentioned by
- Jesus
- Attis
- Dionysus
- Osiris
- Enki
- An
- Cybele
- Ma
- Nanna
- Inanna
- Persephone
- Baal
- Demeter
- Asherah
- Ninurta
- Anzû
and 9 more
Sources
- peer reviewed
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Frazer cited the examples of Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis and Attis, Zagreus, Dionysus, and Jesus.”
#12050 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“He links Ishtar, Tammuz, Innini, Ma (Cappadocia), Mami, Dingir-Mah, Cybele, Agdistis, Pessinuntica and the Idaean Mother to the cult of a great mother goddess.”
#20699 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Ezekiel 8 (Ezekiel 8:14) mentions Adonis under his earlier East Semitic name Tammuz and describes a group of women mourning Tammuz's death while sitting near the north gate of the Temple in Jerusalem.”
#22807 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“a single Assyrian inscription in which a man requests Tammuz that, when he descends to the Underworld, he should take with him a troublesome ghost who has been haunting him. The cult of Tammuz was particularly associated with women, who were the ones responsible for mourning his death.”
#25900 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In Ezekiel 8:14, the prophet has a vision of the women of Jerusalem weeping for Tammuz.”
#36564 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001