Tammuz
in Tamil
The name of Tammuz was carried by Tammuzh,
a Tamil Pandyan king in the dravidian cultural realm of ancient
south india who held his capital at Kuadam. The Pandyans had trading
contacts with Ptolemaic Egypt and, through Egypt with Rome by the
first century CE.
A number of pastoral poems and songs relate the love affair of Inanna
and Dumuzid the shepherd a text recovered in 1963
Dumuzi
in Sumerian In
the Sumerian King List Dumuzi the Fisherman appears as "Dumuzi the
Fisherman, whose city was Kua, reigned 100 years" the third king
of the first dynasty of Uruk, reigning between Lugalbanda and Gilgamesh
the son of Lugalbanda a situation not explained in extant texts.
Nor is it explained why in other texts Dumuzi is always a shepherd
not a fisherman. The king list does also lists a Dumuzid the Shepherd
as the fifth of the kings who reigned in Eridu before the flood.
Dumuzi is a shepherd god who represents the harvest season but also
became a god of the underworld.
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