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| | Tammuz - definition of Tammuz in Encyclopedia |
 | | Tammuz or Tamuz (Arabic &; Tammūz; תמוז, Standard Hebrew Tammuz, Tiberian Hebrew Tammûz; Akkadian Duʾzu, Dūzu; all from Sumerian Dumuzid or Dumuzi 'legal son' who was the dying and rising shepherd god in Sumerian religion) – (See also Tammuz (month).) | | | In Babylonian, the month was established in honor of the eponymous god Tammuz, which originated from the Akkadian shepherd-god Dumuzid or Dumuzi, the consort of Ishtar and the parallel of Adonis in the Greek pantheon. | | | At this point the Akkadian text fails as Tammuz sister Belili, introduced for the first time, strips herself of her jewelry in mourning but claims that Tammuz and the dead will come back. |
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| | Tammuz (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net |
| | In the Chaldean calendar there was a month set apart in honor of this god, the month of June to July, the beginning of the summer solstice. | | | At this festival, which lasted six days, the worshippers, with loud lamentations, bewailed the funeral of the god, they sat "weeping for Tammuz" (Ezek. |
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| | TAMMUZ in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE (Bible History Online) |
| | This custom of weeping for Tammuz is referred to in the Bible in the only passage where the name occurs (Ezek 8:14). | | | Considering the disgraceful and licentious rites with which the cult was celebrated, it is no wonder that Ezekiel should have taken the vision of the women weeping for Tammuz in the temple as one of the greatest abominations that could defile the Holy House. | | | The name Adonis, by which this deity was known to the Greeks, is none other than the Phoenician 'Adhon, which is the same in Hebrew. |
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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Tammuz @ HighBeam Research |
| | TAMMUZ [Tammuz], ancient nature deity worshiped in Babylonia. | | | A god of agriculture and flocks, he personified the creative powers of spring. | | | Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years. |
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| | Tammuz on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Mending the breach of the 17th of Tammuz | | | In Record Time; 'In the Middle of Tammuz, I Shall Die' |
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