Dumuzi-Amaushumgalana

Dumuzi-Amaushumgalana
In Mesopotamian religion, a Sumerian god who represented the power of growth and new life in the date palm.

He was the young bridegroom of the fertility goddess Inanna or Ishtar. Their marriage was celebrated annually as a harvest festival. He was also identified with the Sumerian god Tammuz.

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▪ Sumerian deity
      in Mesopotamian religion, Sumerian deity especially popular in the southern orchard regions and later in the central steppe area. He was the young bridegroom of the goddess Inanna (Ishtar) (Akkadian: Ishtar), a fertility figure sometimes called the Lady of the Date Clusters. As such, he represented the power of growth and new life in the date palm. In Uruk, the marriage of Dumuzi-Amaushumgalana to Inanna, in her role as goddess of the storehouse, was essentially a harvest festival, symbolizing the security the community felt after laying in provisions for the new year, just as a young couple finds security in marriage. Dumuzi-Amaushumgalana (One Great Source of the Date Clusters) was essentially a form of Dumuzi (Tammuz), the Sumerian god of fertility and reproduction.

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  • Dumuzi-Amaushumgalana — En las religiones mesopotámicas, dios sumerio que representaba la fuerza del crecimiento y la nueva vida en la palmera datilera. Era el joven desposado de la diosa de la fertilidad Inanna o Ištar. Su matrimonio era celebrado anualmente en un… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Tammuz — /tah mooz/; for 1 also /tah moohz /; for 2 also /tam uz/, n. 1. the tenth month of the Jewish calendar. Cf. Jewish calendar. 2. a Sumerian and Babylonian shepherd god, originally king of Erech, confined forever in the afterworld as a substitute… …   Universalium

  • Ishtar — /ish tahr/, n. the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love and war, identified with the Phoenician Astarte, the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna. Also called Mylitta. * * * In Mesopotamian religion, the goddess of war and sexual love.… …   Universalium

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