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Dumuzid
Dumuzid | |
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God of shepherds and fertility | |
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Abode | Heaven (for half the year) Kur (for the other half) |
Personal information | |
Parents | Sirtur and an unknown father |
Siblings | Geshtinanna (sister), Amashilama (not usually, but in some texts said to be his sister) |
Consort | Inanna (later known as Ishtar) |
Equivalents | |
Greek equivalent | Adonis |
East Semitic equivalent | Tammuz |
Levantine equivalent | Tammuz/Adonis |
Dumuzid (Sumerian: