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noun

Tammuz, Thammuz n.

A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician Adon, or Adonis.

The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July.

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... been more widely and solemnly celebrated than in the lands which border the Eastern Mediterranean. Under the names of Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis, and Attis, the peoples of Egypt and Western Asia represented the yearly decay and revival of life, especially of vegetable life, which they personified as a god who annually died and rose again from the dead. In name and detail the rites varied from place to place: in ...

— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer

... summer, when the camels and other domestic animals brought forth their young and the shepherds offered their sacrifices.[145] Babylonia, the supreme early centre of religious and cosmological culture, presents a more decisive example of the sex festival. The festival of Tammuz is precisely analogous to the European festival of St. John's Day. Tammuz was the solar god of spring vegetation, and closely associated with Ishtar, also an agricultural deity of fertility. The Tammuz festival was, in the earliest times, held toward the summer solstice, at the time of the first ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

Words linked to "Tammuz" : Jewish calendar month, Jewish calendar, Hebrew calendar, Thammuz, Fast of Tammuz