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Dumuzi

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prop. n.1.the Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna.
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Noun1.Dumuzi - Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna


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In ancient Mesopotamia there were sacred hymns that recounted the courtship and marriage of Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, and Dumuzi, the Shepherd-King of Uruk.
Hooke's Middle Eastern Mythology (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1963) elaborates on the tension between agriculture and pastoralism in his discussion of the Sumerian myth of Inanna's courtship by Enkimdu and Dumuzi (pp.
The opera's main deity is Inanna, the lusty Sumerian queen of heaven and earth, who gains most of her powers by getting the god of wisdom drunk After admiring her own "wondrous vulva," she beds down with the farmer Dumuzi, thus symbolically enacting the union of divine power and the staff of life.
 
 
 
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