Talk:Dumuzid

message: I deleted the section with the above title as a clear copyright violation. It's quoted a number of places on the web and I can't locate the original source, but it appears in a post dated from 2006 here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/caner/314998602/ where it's attributed to one Michael Himick at http://www.artknowledgenews.com/?q=node/1412 which is a dead link. Since we don't know who this is we can't assume he's a reliable source or if the quote was even original to him, so we can't even use the information until it can be verified elsewhere. 192.31.106.36 (talk) 05:53, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "World's oldest known love poem" 

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message: I think that Tammuz (mythology) should be merged into this article because "Tammuz" is just a later Semitic spelling of "Dumuzid" and the two names refer to exactly the same figure. I would have just merged the two articles myself, but, unfortunately, I have discovered that people become really angry with me when I do that, so I am putting up this merge proposal. --Katolophyromai (talk) 21:34, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: In "Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others" Stephanie Dalley says that Dumuzi dies and resurrects but the article says he doesn't.
"The Sumerian version, The Descent of Inanna, is attested earlier, and is much longer, consisting of some 410 lines. It is a fuller, more detailed account, and shows clearly that Dumuzi periodically died and rose, causing seasonal fertility, a fact which had been doubted until 1963, when a newly published fragment disclosed the crucial evidence."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blebnh (talk • contribs) 05:17, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The exact same section of text is copied in several articles about purported dying and rising gods, the conclusions based mostly on Edie and Boyd 2007. The logic here seems very confused. How does post-dating Christianity invalidate the category of dying and rising god? The passage seems to conflate the existence of such an archetype with the possible influence of the archetype on the development of Christianity, which is largely irrelevant to this topic. It comes across as an apologetic defense of Christianity to paste this conclusion (which is contradicted by other and more recent sources, both mentioned here and cited on the actual dying and rising god article), which is not even warranted. I suggest the debate about dying gods be restricted to that article, and any pros and cons for including Dumuzid or Adonis or whoever be mentioned with a link. 2600:1002:B001:99C5:F225:843D:E48:578D (talk) 23:55, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  According to some sources Dumuzid does resurrect 

message: Somethings wrong with Kramer, 1966. I tried correcting the format from "article=" to "title=" but a template error keeps occurring: Warning: Dumuzid is calling Template:Citation with more than one value for the "title" parameter. Only the last value provided will be used. — JudeccaXIII (talk) 17:52, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kramer 

message: The reference #29 listed currently shows a preview of the book Ishtar by Louise Pryke, however it links to a google search page with the term "Ninshubur gender" rather than Sacred Marriage. Is she the eminent scholar on the topic at the moment? She suggests that there is no evidence that the sacred marriage actually took place from what little I could read. Was looking to clear this up a little, and point the above out to the other authors. Desdinova (talk) 18:59, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference Regarding Sacred Marriage Rituals 

message: A Seventh Day Adventist website states one of the errors of other Christians includes "Saying that the birth of Jesus was on 25 December [from the birthday of the Babylonian sun god's son, Tammuz];" Other sites have similar claims which I am not in a position to confirm. Is there enough solid research to include some of that information in the article? Samatva (talk) 14:13, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: No, there's absolutely no evidence to suggest that anyone in ancient Mesopotamia ever believed that Dumuzid/Tammuz had been born on December 25th. The ancient Mesopotamians did not even use the Latin calendar, so there was never a month on any ancient Mesopotamian calendar called "December" to begin with. The idea that Dumuzid was born on December 25th is an inaccurate assumption based on the inaccurate assumption that Jesus was inspired by Dumuzid and the inaccurate assumption that the ancient Mesopotamians therefore must have said all the same things about Dumuzid that modern western Christians say about Jesus. —Katolophyromai (talk) 03:05, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christmas ? 

message: Ezekiel's vision obviously relates to the first temple (Salomon's) not the Second temple. There is an error in the legend to the picture. Qasinka (talk) 19:56, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch!  Changed.  Cheers. Dumuzid (talk) 20:12, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which temple?