Babylonian+Resurrected+Gods

Submitted by Alec Zeldes

Tammuz
Tammuz was the Babylonian rebirth and death god. He is connected with animals, agriculture and livestock. His personification was the cyclic rebirth of nature in the spring, and he married to Ishtar, goddess of fertility. One legend states that Ishtar was so filled with grief over Tammuz's death that she entered the underworld to get him back. Another legend says, she killed him and later restored him to life. A festival for him, which took place in the early spring, celebrated the yearly death and rebirth of vegetation, were at the same tie of the festivals of the Phoenician and Greek and of the Phrygian

Tammuz is also the river god of the Tigris and Euphrates. He was also the son and brother of Ishtar, the two came together when the world began where she gave birth to Tammuz. There she had sexual intercourse with him but still remained a virgin. When he dies in the summer, all the vegetation dies, and Ishtar starts her search for him. When she descended into the underworld and found Tammuz, she resurrected the god in the spring and the world came back to life.
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