DUMUZI

[dumu ki-en-gi]

dumu-zi
za3-mi2-zu dug3-ga-am3


Torment Dumuzi

The death and resurrection of God Dumuzi one of the important rituals tragic his name legendary and ritual and philosophical, it is tragic inventories in the spirit of man, in Mesopotamia. But the size of persecution and torment suffered by the god Dumuzi and the relationship of his beloved gods Inanna and role ambiguity in this tragic death led to that filled mtheologia and literature Sumerian, Babylonian and legends and epics and rites of private tragedies famous goddess of fertility console this the absence from the life, and then his resurrection again, and all this is so far from the most prestigious and richest Mtheologia what has been written in the peoples of Mesopotamia.



Through these poems and myths and rituals have intensified our knowledge for the abduction of the god of masculinity and fertility Dumuzi , by the demons of the world below and respects the goddess (femininity) (Inanna) to (mentioned by her husband and her lover and her brother) after being handed over is to die. But these gods wanted to atone for the mistake. Without (Dumuzi ) is not any fertilization in all its forms, whether in nature or in humans, and this means drought and patio life, caused her to fall into the world of death to look for him and assume the tragedies and difficulties that accompanied the journey. As an expression of the need for rich universe in March the people of Mesopotamia collective grief over (Dumuzi ) Sumerian and the participation of the Babylonian gods (Ishtar) in the downstream half of her lover or the other. This is the antithesis Weather Weather holy matrimony, but a complement to him at the same time. When handed the Gods (Inanna) Sumerian god (Dumuzi ) as an alternative to her, the Goddess (Ishtar) is in the Babylonian version, which fell again to save him, and this is to save the life of objects and nature Maimit nothing fruitful for all.



The tragedy of God has begun (Ugalla/demons of the underworld) when he fell into the hands of demons (Ugalla), the creatures do not know mercy and feed on mud (you goblins who do not or have not a father or sister or wife or son / who Arverwon Haiman in heaven and earth, such as the heads of guard / ye goblins who cling Side man / who do not know what the credit and do not know good and evil /) and implementation of the application they strain and relevance in the case and tortured him in preparation for coming in hell death, after pleas in large by him to all the gods to help him, and his pleas to the sun god:

(Oh Utu, I am your friend, I'm the boy who you know / taken your sister pairs / turn to be, rather than in the lower /Utu the world, you are the judge of Justice, to not let I die, / non-hands / Change Picture / Let me escaped from demons, do not catch me, / live like Sakgal passed promoter Rawabi will / will convey my spirit to the house of my sister Ngeshtin-ana). And it responds (the sun god Utu) to save him and turn him into a snake disappears in the fields. Under the exiled god (Dumuzi) chased, without a roof protected or angle reckoned, immune to come off the bench leaning on them, safe door repels him the wind, no place sheltering in it. Exile, stalker and sole, does not have only the flame of his soul, and his fate is. This God exiled master of the country tormented. It remains rambled even up to the house of his sister, and when it deems issued respects over, ways unprecedented because it diviner see a close future painful: (Ngeshtin-ana stared at her brother, / scratched her cheeks, tore her mouth / ...... smashed her clothes / issued by ways over to Mr. torturer / equality, my brother, equality, dear boy, who were not long / equality his days my brother to marry the boy who was born to him and / equality boy who my brother to him To a Friend / my brother equality boy who does not bring solace to his mother /)

During the Dumuzi fugitive killed him sleep, see a nightmare frightening him connotations Avatar also tell us the poet Sumerian Babylonian words of poetry expressive and concise and relevant after the tragic, it is during the snapshot lightning fast-paced as in contemporary cinema, intensify our poet dramatic image that represents a tragic end the inevitable fate to Dumuzi (he woke up, it was a dream / Simmer, it was a vision, / rubbing his eyes, crossed his face Roundabout).



As Dumuzi sees in his dream, the origin condenses around it all there is a bundle of reeds bend his head .on sacred resting place for not pour water, and a bowl of holy milk outstanding to wedge fall and break, and mace sponsor (stick) Shepherd (Dumuzi) disappear, and Baza(falcon) holding a lamb , and cattle God with beard the azure-legged in the dirt and on the ground, twisted lists. And safe milk is poured into the bowl and broken. (Dumuzi ) will not live quiet anymore, stockade sheep in the wind.



The symbols of this dream demonstrate all the qualities of Dumuzi , as a sponsor, so the words of the poet used intensive image and symbolizes the nature of such a life. And the dream of Dumuzi shows us the tragic situation and the sadness that surrounds the heart endocarditis. And when you start (Ngeshtin-ana) interpretation of her brother's dream interpretation, and the interpretation is more terrifying and tragic of the same dream. Where prediction that the grass that wraps around it is Cutthroats by thugs and bad guys will horror his and sheep barn will become a desolation. But adherence to God (Dumuzi ) life him to hide in another secret location did not know him but to his sister not disclosure the hiding place, (will I hide among large implant , not says where I am / will I hide between grooves "Arale" not says to where I am) promise so. (If i say where your hideout, promise eat me your dogs.)



But demons Ugalla consult among themselves on the hiding place (Who sees a man who owned the fear that lives in peace / not, going to his friend's house, and go to the house of his brother in law / going community sponsor in the House Ngeshtin-ana) and when they arrive there torture her of in order that tell them, but to no avail (tell where hiding your brother, they told her, but she did not tell them, / came the sky close to her, and put the land in her lap, but did not tell them ./ came to land soon rend her, but did not tell them, / They came out soon ...... casting over her clothes, but she did not tell them / poured in her lap tar, but did not tell them / did not find (Dumuzi) in the house of Ngeshtin-ana /) sister God (Dumuzi) feels guilty because of the pain suffered by his sister (if I hid in the cities, I brought an end to my sister. /) allowing his pursuers to catch him in some way. When this is done feel fear of death entreat to God Utu again in order to forward it to the deer, but the wicked devils have the task of implementing the law of the lower world and we have to find him chase also escape them, a sign of the conflict between the forces of fertility and the forces of death. In conclusion it is holding him hiding in his barn in the desert. They tortured him in order he would be sent to the world of eternal death. And this is achieved his nightmare. But his sister are big sacrifice when he was on his demons to replace him in the world of no return as an alternative to him. The punishment for (Dumuzi) who tried to escape from punishment as it is judged that the lives half the year in the world of the dead, and his sister take his place in the second half. When death (Dumuzi) prevail drought in the universe. Then the heart is filled with gods (Inanna/Ishtar) grief over her lover Vtsab remorse at being the cause of this drought and the devastation that her city's uncle, handed over to the God of fertility death. It begins with the people of Mesopotamia exercise ritual of grief with his gods (Our eyes), and weather collective remorse on the machine (Dumuzi) until the resurrection of a new, fertile then begins in the spring and summer after death, drought, and so begins the life cycle.


Shulgi Sumerian

[dumu ki-en-gi]

Dumuzi the Gods

1. Dumuzi-Abzu: Son true to water depths , to say son of the high water depths, which represents the fresh water that irrigate the plants and animals, was the god of the city of Kinirsha near Lagash in the southeastern marshland region . she is not God Dumuzi the Shepherd these gods became clear feminization and have not relationship with Dumuzi the Shepherd , associated with Abzu.

2- Dumuzi-Amaushum-gal-ana: is fertilized power that lies in the palm and caused her fertile pollen and who is also a not Dumuzi the Shepherd.

3-Dumuzi the Shepherd: is the patron of sheep and cattle Dumuzi means Savior or faithful. high and also or emitted , and here another explanation Dumuzi to his name, which means child accelerator any who give them health depending on that the Gods - cattle meaning it is a short season for milk in the spring of any driving force for milk and when stop der sheep milk, this means the death of Gods.

[us4-he2-gal2]

Shulgi:




Thanks very much for this excellent contribution. I think your discussion of the god Dumuzi is well written, very insightful! The stories about Dumuzi provide us with a picture of how the ancients saw the natural world around them, fertility of plants and animals. Your careful consideration of of Dumuzi's character reveals his special role in Mesopotamian religion. Your comments on Dumuzi, Dumuzi-Abzu and Dumuzi-Amaushum-gal-ana are also very impressive, because the difference between these deities is obscure and little known. Do you use Thorkild Jacobsen's work?




Below I have posted a comment made about Dumuzi from Bendt Alster's book "DUMUZI'S DREAM: Aspects of Oral Poetry in a Sumerian Myth" page 14:


"...the account of Dumuzi's death in the two myths "Inanna's Descent" and "Dumuzi's Dream"... In the former he dies when his wife Inanna hands him over to the Nether World as a substitute for herself, whereupon he is allowed to return to life half the year because his sister enters as a substitute for him. According to the latter he dies when demons destroy his sheepfold on the desert. In the first case we may say that a widespread theme, "the rescue by substitution," has been exemplified in a tale of the world of Dumuzi ; in the other we recognize a story of the dangerous daily life of the shepherds on the plain, disguised in the mythological language of the Dumuzi literature, where the demons represent bandits attacking the shepherds, while at the same time Dumuzi's death is associated with the seasonal ceasing Of the milk production. Similarly, Cl. Wilcke has expressed the opinion that the Dumuzi text TMHNF III 25 reflects a love story from the daily life ("einer wohl nicht allzu seltene Situation des Alltags") which implies that it îs to be considered as information of daily life in Sumer rather than of the Sumerian gods. Consequently, the character of Dumuzi cannot be defined by a simple adding up of the available information, and thereby straightforwardly drawing a conclusion."

[dumu ki-en-gi]

merhaba
I am here I want to write anything about Dumuzi
us4-he2-gal2

[dumu ki-en-gi]

Sumerians and Babylonians used to establish the sacred ritual of marriage and crying on the god Dumuzi each year, the fact that this ritual simulation of the content of religious faith relate with, shepherd Dumuzi
New Year celebration ------ zagmuk=Sumerian
                                      zagmukku------- Akkadian
Which have re- story configuration of in order to ensure that the various manifestations of the rich, is the establishment of an annual ritual holy matrimony.
As the legends embody the fertile appearances in the fertile goddess Inanna with her husband Dumuzi as accepted
Rituals were held with King analogy where the divine marriage ritual embodying the role of the husband returned with Great role of the priestess wife is known among specialists the (sacred marriage)
And which is linked to the events of love and spinning between them, and about the tragedy dumuzi

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Does not know when people started in Mesopotamia, the practice of ritual holy matrimony see that he was known since King Enmerkar time (around 2750 BC)

one of the clips Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta (see kramer.The sacred marriag  p58 )

But holy matrimony has not taken a definite form only during the period of King Dumuzi third king of Uruk first dynasty (2700 BC), where he says Kramer:

- The idea of holy matrimony is an idea of when the priests of Uruk, when King made a pair to their gods Inanna For that acquired the status of God and this is the reason he became a god in the memory of the Sumerian people-


I think that the reasons that inspired to Kramer this is the text of the sacred ritual of marriage

"she looked at all people

Dumuzi chose from among them to be the god of the country

Dumuzi lovable Enlil

It's always proud mom

It is revered my father. "


Dumuzi was king in the land and raised to the ranks of the gods because Inanna chosen to be her husband

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In fact, there is no definite proof that the word Dumuzi in the texts of holy matrimony refers to the king of Uruk strain first, or he could only reference his word Dumuzi, real known among researchers that any person who acts as a so-called holy matrimony Dumuzi whatever his name was.
For example, King Shulgi (2048-2095 BC) is as God Dumuzi

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kramer overlooked in assumptions about God Dumuzi for what is known of mating gods in religious belief of the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, which was one of these examples, the marriage of Inanna Dumuzi one of the most famous examples ...
It is known that the Sumerians had a god for each city and has a wife or a husband, as well as annually were celebrating the marriage of the gods, believing them to achieve this marriage of fertility and abundance as Dumuzi and Inanna
Earliest these texts to the time of Gudea 2150 BC, where he says in the text :
"King [ie Ningirsu] entered his temple like a vulture aiming consideration towards its prey .. then it indicates Goddess Bau described (wife kind that take care of at home) and says she goddess of fertility and prosperity. Like the Tigris River in flooding and as an orchard full of fruit, at the end of section refers people to celebrate this occasion and say "that the city of Lagash ruled today in prosperity and that the sun god in the city of Lagash raise the head high."(see {falkenstein and Von soden. sumerische und akkadishe Hymmen und Gebete 169-170}

There are other divine marriages remind them:
- marriage god Anu and antu in Uruk
- marriage god Utu and Aia in Sippar
- marriage Marduk and Srpanitum in Babylon

Thus, the sacred marriage is a very old tradition

[sheshki]

Just found short notes about ^dama-ušumgal-an-na, ^ddumu-zi and ^ddumu-zi-abzu
in A Sumerian Chrestomathy by K.Volk

1)Its etymology; 2) The chief cult place; 3) The god´s main characteristics.

^dama-ušumgal-an-na:
1) For the latest study of this name see M.Fritz, AOAT 307, 269-271; M Krebernik, Studies Wilcke, 153-156; 166-167;
3) Associated with Lugaluru(b) in pre-Sargonic Lagaš; eventually assimilated to Dumuzi.

^ddumu-zi(-d):
1) "`noble`Child" (see M Fritz, AOAT 307, 271f.; M Krebernik, Studies Wilcke, 151-153);
2) God of Badtibira;
3) There are two traditions, one about Dumuzi the fisherman and one about Dumuzi the shepherd. The fisherman is from Ku´ara, the shepherd from Badtibira. The latter is also Inanna´s "husband" whom she sends to the underworld as a substitute for herself. He is the archetypal disappearing and dying god.

^ddumu-zi-abzu:
1)"`noble`Child of the Abyss";
2) Kinunirša;
3) This divinity was generally regarded as female. At Eridu, however, the deity was considered male and formed part of Enki´s entourage.