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The galla capture Dumuzid, but Utu, the god of the Sun, who is also Inanna's brother, rescues Dumuzid by transforming him into a gazelle. [51] Eventually, the galla recapture Dumuzid and drag him down into the Underworld. [50] [52] Terracotta plaque dating to the Amorite Period (c. 2000-1600 BC) showing a dead god (probably Dumuzid) resting in ...
The intelligible part of the poem describes Inanna pining after her husband Dumuzid, who is in the steppe watching his flocks. [248] [249] Inanna sets out to find him. [248] After this, a large portion of the text is missing. [248] When the story resumes, Inanna is being told that Dumuzid has been murdered. [248]
Dumuzid, later known by the corrupted form Tammuz, is the ancient Mesopotamian god of shepherds [131] and the primary consort of the goddess Inanna. [131] His sister is the goddess Geshtinanna. [131] [132] In addition to being the god of shepherds, Dumuzid was also an agricultural deity associated with the growth of plants.
Dumuzid, the fisherman, whose city was Kuara, ruled for 100 years. [c] He (Dumuzid) was taken captive by the (single hand of Enmebaragesi). [d] According to scholars, the sequence of the first Uruk dynasty was fabricated during the Ur III period, which didn't include comments about some rulers. The fabrication of king Dumuzid could have been ...
Ancient Sumerian cylinder seal impression showing the god Dumuzid being tortured in the underworld by galla demons. The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erṣetu), was the lowermost part of the ancient near eastern cosmos, roughly parallel to the region known as Tartarus from early Greek cosmology.
The Sumerian version, entitled Descent of Inanna into the Underworld, comprises 400 lines and is the modern designation for the myth. The incipit, which designates the Sumerian text, bestows upon it the title Angalta, which translates to "From the Great Sky." [4] This version, discovered after the Akkadian version, is of a more archaic provenance.
The oldest writing of Geshtinanna's name was Amageshtin or Amageshtinanna, as attested in documents from Lagash from the Early Dynastic period. [1] There is no agreement over whether Amageshtin was a shortened form of Amageshtinanna or if the suffix-anna was added to a pre-existing name, but Manfred Krebernik argues the latter is more likely, as Amageshtin is attested as an ordinary personal ...
Duttur was the mother of the dying god Dumuzid, [4] as well as his well attested sister Geshtinanna. [13] According to Old Babylonian incantations, Ea was the father of Dumuzid, [4] but he plays no role in narrative texts about him, unlike his female relatives like Duttur. [3]