1. Tammuz is a Mesopotamian deity from 2500 BC-900 AD whose story shares similarities with Jesus. He is known as the "True/Faithful Son" or "Risen Son", is a shepherd and fisherman, and his wife is associated with the planet Venus. 2. Tammuz dies under a great apple tree and is resurrected, parallel to Jesus being crucified on the tree of life and resurrected. His death is mourned and celebrated in festivals that align with Jewish holidays. 3. Tammuz's father Enki is involved in creation myths similar to Genesis, creating man and a garden of Eden. Enki warns of a

1. Aliases: Tammuz, Damu, Ta'uz, Tamoza
Location: Mesopotamia (Iraq), Canaan (Palestine)
Cities: Bad-Tibira, Kuara, Uruk, Harran, Byblos, Bethlehem
Estimated Date: 2500s B.C. - 900s A.D.
1. His name means “True Son”, “Faithful Son”, “Living
Son”, or “Risen Son”
“Dumu” means “son” and “Zi” means “true”, “faithful”,
or “living” or “risen”.
2. He is a shepherd and a fisherman
Dumuzi is referred in myth as “the Shepherd,” just as Jesus is
the “Good Shepherd”. The Sumerian king list refers to one
Dumuzi as “the Shepherd” and another as “the Fisherman,” a
symbol also used for Jesus’ disciples, who are described as
fishermen who were then called by Jesus to become “fishers of
men”.
3. His wife is associated with Venus, which is linked to an
early falling/dying god that Jerusalem is named after
Dumuzi’s wife Inanna, whose name means "Lady of Heaven",
is identified with the planet Venus, whose astral movements
are symbolized in myth by Inanna’s death and resurrection.
Inanna tries to take over the queen-dom of the dead from her
sister Ereshkigal, removing more and more of her regalia in

2. order to pass through seven gates to the underworld,
symbolizing the descent of Venus losing its radiance.
Ereshkigal kills Inanna and hangs her in underworld but
Dumuzi’s father, the Promethean god Enki resurrects her,
allowing her rise back up, connecting the falling “evening star”
with the rising “morning star”. A different Canaanite myth
describes morning and evening star aspects of Venus in the
form of two gods: Shahar, the god of the dawn, and Shalim,
the god of the dusk, the twin sons of Inanna’s Canaanite
equivalent, Asherah. Shalim is the original god
that Jerusalem (Yeru-shalem) is named after and his twin
brother Shahar, mentioned in Isaiah, is the father of Hel-El
(“day-god”), was translated in the Latin as “Lucifer”.
One of them sprinkled on it the life-giving plant and the
other the life-giving water. And thus Inana arose.
4. He is attacked while under a great apple tree, just as
Jesus was said to have been crucified on the Tree of Life
in Eden
After Enki resurrects Inanna, she is forced by the demons of
her sister Ereshkigal to choose a replacement for the
underworld and because her husband failed to mourn for her
death, she picks Dumuzi as he sat under “the great apple tree
in the plain of Kaluba” (in Uruk, in Southern Iraq), bringing to
mind the tree of wisdom in the garden of Eden. The vegetation
god calls out to the sun god to save him, and Utu changes
Dumuzi into an animal several times to escape the demons,
but they eventually catch and kill him. Interestingly, Jesus was
said to have been “hung on a tree” in Galatians 3:13 and 1
Peter 2:24. Acts 5:30, 10:39, and 13:29 also uses the term
“tree” instead of “cross” when Peter, Paul or the apostles are
explaining how Jesus died, but not when the author wrote
about it, as if trying to explain how that term “tree” came to be
used instead of “cross”. The anti-gospel known as the Toledot
Yeshu also portrays Jesus as being stoned to death in the first
century B.C. and then hung on a cabbage stalk because Jesus
had cursed the trees so that none would hold his body. Mara
Bar Serapion and the Talmud corroborates the story of Jesus
being executed in the first century B.C. by Jewish elders, not
by Romans, just as 1 Thessalonians 2:14-15 also puts full
blame on “the Jews” without any mention of the Romans.
Likewise, Galatians 3:13 says Jesus was hung on a tree

3. according to a Jewish law from the Book of Deuteronomy.
However, the earliest reference to Jesus’ death in the epistles
probably comes from 1 Corinthians 2:6, in which Jesus is said
to have been killed by the archons of this aeon, the “powers of
this age/realm/plane”, which can mean either mortal rulers or
elemental demons. Only in the late second century epistle 1
Timothy does Jesus get crucified by Pontius Pilate. Revelation
2:7 and 22:2 use the Tree of Life as a symbol of messianic
salvation. The third century theologian Origen said, “Scripture
describes Christ as a tree.” A third century Christian poem by
Pseudo-Cyprian and the fourth century bishop Cyril of
Jerusalem associated the cross to the Tree of Life in the middle
of the world.
They followed her to the great apple tree in the plain
of Kulaba. There was Dumuzid clothed in a magnificent
garment and seated magnificently on a throne. The
demons seized him there by his thighs. .... Holy Inana
wept bitterly for her husband. [4 lines fragmentary]
She tore at her hair like esparto grass, she ripped it out
like esparto grass. "You wives who lie in your men's
embrace, where is my precious husband? You children
who lie in your men's embrace, where is my precious
child? Where is my man? Where ......? Where is my man?
Where ......?"

4. -Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld
When the fifth entered the sheepfold and cow-pen, the
churns lay on their side, no milk was poured, the
drinking cups lay on their side, Dumuzid was dead, the
sheepfold was haunted.-Dumuzi's Dream
5. He spends Winter with the Queen of the netherworld
and Spring with the fertility goddess
Dumuzi is resurrected after which half the year the vegetation
god goes into the underworld (winter) and half the year his
sister will take his place (summer).
“You for half the year and your sister for half the year:
when you are demanded, on that day you will stay, when your
sister is demanded, on that day you will be released.”
-Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld
6. The festival of his death is at the same time as the
Jewish Festival of the Booths and the festival of his
resurrection is marked by his name on the Hebrew
calendar
The Festival of the Booths was instituted by Moses in the Bible
to commemerate the wandering in the desert by building
makeshift booths and living in them. Like this festival, the
festival of Tammuz also involved a water-drawing but also
included mourning for his death that ended in ecstatic dancing.
The Mishnah and Talmud describe continued festivities in which
men and women intermingled and became “ligthheaded”,
which continued until the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.Tammuz's
resurrection festival was celebrated in the the fourth month of
the Babylonian/Assyrian calendar, the day of the first new
moon of the Summer Solstice. The name of the month was
itself named Tammuz, a name was adopted into the Hebrew
and Assyrian Christian calendars.
7. He is resurrected by women ritually mourning his death
In a very similar Akkadian text, Tammuz’s sister Belili
(Gesthinanna) calls for the women to weep for Tammuz in
order to resurrect him.

5. When Belili heard the lament of her brother, she dropped her
treasure,
She scattered the precious stones before her,
"Oh, my only brother, do not let me perish!
On the day when Tammuz plays for me on the flute of lapis
lazuli, playing it for me with the porphyry ring.
Together with him, play ye for me, ye weepers and
lamenting women!
That the dead may rise up and inhale the incense."
-Ishtar's Descent to the Netherworld
8. He is resurrected from beneath the Tree of Life
Mesopotamian cylinder seal dated 2320-2150 B.C.
(S. Beaulieu, after Wolkstein and Kramer 1983:40)
9. A goddess associated with his wife is worshipped using
a sacramental tree pole
In Canaan and Asia Minor, a gooddess named Asherah, which
some scholars link with Tammuz's wife Ishtar, was worshipped
in sacred groves using wooden tree poles that were named
after her.

6. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites,
Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Be careful not to make a
treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or
they will be a snare among you. Break down their altars,
smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah
poles.-Exouuds 34:11-13
10. He has a sacramental ritual of bread and water (not
wine, though his sister is named after wine)
A sacramental meal of bread and water seems to play some
role in Dumuzi’s ritual, prefiguring the later bread and wine
sacrament of the Eucharist. The wine element, however, is not
completely absent since the name of Dumuzi’s sister,
Geshtinanna, means “Wine Lady of Heaven”. In the Sumerian
myth where Enki resurrects Inanna, he sends two servants
that resurrect her with the “plant” and “water” of life.
Dumuzi spoke: "My sister, I would go with you to my garden.
Inanna, I would go with you to my garden. I would go with you
to my orchard. I would go with you to my apple tree. There I
would plant the sweet, honey-covered seed."-The Courtship of
Inanna and Dumuzi
Dumuzi sang: .... Water flows from on high for your
servant. Bread flows from on high for your servant. Pour
it out for me, Inanna. I will drink all you offer."-The
Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi
11. His father created Eden, ate a “forbidden fruit”, was
healed by a Rib Goddess, created man out of clay, and
gave Dumuzi's wife the “Knowledge of Good and Evil”
Dumuzi’s father, the wise god Enki, in a myth not mentioning
Dumuzi, fathers several goddesses in an ageless, deathless
garden where freshwater flows from the ground and childbirth
is easy and pain-free, just like Eden. The Sumerian verse, “The
lion did not slay, the wolf was not carrying off lambs”, echoes
the famous Golden Age language used in Isaiah 11:6, “The
wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the
goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a
little child will lead them.” The Sumerian golden age is ruined

7. when Enki eats some forbidden plants that the birth-giving
goddess Ninhursag grew, echoing the “forbidden fruit” motif of
the Eden story. Ninhursag curses Enki and he becomes sick but
she later relents and gives birth to eight goddess to heal eight
of his body parts, one of these goddesses being the “Lady of
the Rib,” which in Sumerian also means “Lady of Life”, an
association that explains why Eve was made from Adam’s
rib despite the fact there is no etymological relationship
between the two words in Hebrew. Just as Yahweh creates
Adam out of the dust of the ground, Enki tells his sea goddess
mother, Nammu, to create humans out of clay and then give
birth to them with the help of Ninhursag. This is paralleled by
the Greek titan Prometheus, who also forms man out of clay
and rebels against Zeus by providing man with fire, which
ultimately causes Zeus to produce the first woman, Pandora,
who through her curiosity unleashes all the evils upon the
world, either by two urns of good and evil (parallel to the fruit
of knowledge of good and evil) or, in a different myth, by a
large jar of world’s evil that nevertheless leaves hope behind.
Like Satan, Prometheus is eternally tortured by Zeus for his
“hubris,” not by hellfire, but by having vultures eat his ever-
regenerating liver. This destructive knowledge that brought
civilization is paralleled by another Sumerian myth that Inanna
got Enki drunk and convinced him to allow her to take the
secret culutral arts from his temple in Eridu to her temple in
Kulaba (Uruk).
Virginal is Dilmun land. Pristine is Dilmun land… In Dilmun the
raven was not yet cawing, the partridge not cackling. The lion
did not slay, the wolf was not carrying off lambs, the dog
had not been taught to make kids curl up, the pig had not
learned that grain was to be eaten. When a widow has spread
malt on the roof, the birds did not yet eat that malt up there.
The pigeon then did not tuck the head under its wing. No eye-
diseases said there: "I am the eye disease." No
headache said there: "I am the headache." No old
woman belonging to it said there: "I am an old woman." No
old man belonging to it said there: "I am an old man."....
At that moment, on that day, and under that sun, when Utu
stepped up into heaven, from the standing vessels (?) on
Ezen's (?) shore, from Nanna's radiant high temple, from the
mouth of the waters running underground, fresh waters ran

8. out of the ground for her....
[Ninhursag’s] nine months were nine days. In the month of
womanhood, like fine (?) oil, like fine (?) oil, like oil of
abundance, Nintur [Ninhursag], mother of the country, like
fine (?) oil, gave birth to Ninnisig....
[Ninhursag asked:] "My brother, what part of you hurts you?"
"My ribs [ti] hurt me." She gave birth to Ninti [Lady of the
Rib/Life] out of it.–Enki and Ninhursag
At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven
there was as yet no wild bush on the earth nor had any
wild plant yet sprung up, for Yahweh God had not sent
rain on the earth, nor was there any man to till the soil.
Instead, water flowed out of the ground and watered
all the surface of the soil…-Genesis 2:4-6
To the woman he said: I shall give you intense pain
in childbearing, you will give birth to your children in
pain.–Genesis 3:16
And after Enki, the fashioner of designs by himself, had
pondered the matter, he said to his mother Namma: "My
mother, the creature you planned will really come into
existence. Impose on him the work of carrying baskets.
You should knead clay from the top of the abzu; the
birth-goddesses (?) will nip off the clay and you shall
bring the form into existence. Let Ninmaḫ act as your
assistant; and let Ninimma, Šu-zi-ana, Ninmada,
Ninbarag, Ninmug, …… and Ninguna stand by as you give
birth.–Enki and Ninmah
This is also something that Aesop said. The clay which
Prometheus used when he fashioned man was not
mixed with water but with tears. Therefore, one should
not try to dispense entirely with tears, since they are
inevitable.-Aesop, Fable 516, 500s B.C.
There are two urns (pithoi) that stand on the door-sill of
Zeus. They are unlike for the gifts they bestow: an urn
of evils (kakoi), an urn of blessings (dôroi)"-
Homer, Iliad 24.527, 700s B.C.
But the woman took off the great lid of the jar (pithos)
with her hands and scattered all these and her thought

9. caused sorrow and mischief to men. Only Hope
(Elpis) remained...-Hesiod, Works & Days 54, 700s-600s
B.C.
12. His father had the ark of the great flood built
When the ruling gods An and Enlil decide to flood the earth, it
is the rebellious Enki who provides the secret to the ark-
builder, Ziusudra. The Sumerian deluge story includes saving
all of the animals, the opening of the ark window (by Utu, the
sun god), and the animal sacrifice just as in the Genesis story.
The Babylonian version includes the releasing of the raven.
13. Adam must sympathize with his death in order to
enter heaven
The Assyrian version of Adam, called Adapa, was
a fisherman priest of Ea (Enki) who died at sea to find that
Heaven’s gate guarded a ‘la St. Peter by Dumuzi and a similar
god, Gizzida (literally “Good Tree”). Adapa must mourn for the
death of the two gods in order to be presented in a good light
towards the Father god, Anu (lit. “Heaven”). This motif is
somewhat similar to the way sympathizing with the death of
Jesus is crucial to getting into heaven in the Pauline epistles.
When Adapa meets Anu, he is offered the bread and water of
eternal life, but follows the advice of Ea, he misses his chance
at eternal life, similar to the story of how Adam missed his
chance to eat from the Tree of Life in Genesis. The rest of the
story has been damaged, but from some of the garbled
remains, there also appears to be a disaster which is probably
a correlation to the hardships of the “Fall of Man” in Genesis.
Ea [Enki], aware of heaven's ways, touched him and . .
. made him wear his hair unkempt, clothed him in
mourning garb, gave him instructions, "Adapa, you are to go
before king Anu. You will go up to heaven, And when you go
up to heaven, When you approach the Gate of Anu, Dumuzi
and Gizzida will be standing in the Gate of Anu, Will see you,
will keep asking you questions 'Young man, on whose behalf
do you look like this? On whose behalf do you wear mourning
garb?' [You must answer] ’Two gods have vanished from our
country and that is why I am behaving like this.’ [They will

10. ask] 'Who are the two gods that have vanished from the
country?' (You must answer) 'They are Dumuzi and Gizzida.'
They will look at each other and laugh a lot. [They] will speak
a word in your favor to Anu. [They]will present you to Anu
in a good mood.”The Myth of Adapa
14. He is associated with the serpent and his companion
is symbolized by a serpent pole that was also used for
healing by Moses and referenced by Jesus as a symbol
of resurrection
Both Dumuzi and Inanna carry a title, “Great Mother Dragon of
Heaven", probably inherited from Dumuzi's grandmother, the
mother of all the gods, Nammu. In Babylonian mythology, she
is great chaos beast that the storm/war god Marduk must slay.
The Sumerian storm/war god Ninurta also fights a seven-
headed “Warrior Dragon”. The Canaanite storm/war god
likewise fights a multi-headed sea dragon named Lotan, called
Leviathan in the Bible. Even before the Sumerian age,
theUbaid period of Mesoptamia between 6500 and 3800 B.C.
shows that the totem animal of the gods were serpentine
instead of the later Sumerian and Canaanite bull totem,
represented by the golden calf. The Dumuzi-like god
Ningishzida, the companion of Dumuzi called Gizzida in
the Myth of Adapa, is represented on a Neo-Sumerian vase
dated to the 2000s B.C. as a caduceus, the ancient healing
symbol of a serpent wrapped around a tree that still shown on
ambulances. In Exodus 15:22-16:1, Moses uses a bronze pole
shaped like a cadeucus, called Nehushtan, most likely
representing an Asherah pole, in order to heal the Israelites
from “fiery serpents”, though it was later destroyed by king
Hezekiah supposedly because Israelite “later” started burning
incense to it. The “fiery serpents” could possibly have been
parasitical Guinea worms that lodge under the skin and can be
cured by slowly pulling the worm out with a stick, a process
that looks somewhat similar to the serpent wrapped around
the tree. According to the Hebrew scholar Grey Hubert
Skipworth, the Levite priesthood that claimed descent from
Moses may also have been associated with the serpent given
the root word of their name, Levi, meaning “coiled” or “joined”,
is the same as that of Leviathan (“coiled serpent”). John 3:14
equates Jesus with Moses' bronze serpent, saying both needed
to be lifted up, and the fourth century archbishop John
Chrysostom links Jesus directly with the serpent. The Greek

11. Orthodox Church continues to celebrate the Feast of the
Elevation of the Holy Cross by reading from that Exodus verse,
which is associated with both the Tree of Life and the Cross of
Jesus.
“Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the
Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may
have eternal life in him.”-John 3:14-16
Gudea vase dedicated to Ningishzida, dated to 2000s B.C.

12. Eridu serpent god dated to 5000s B.C.
15. He carries an ivy wand topped with a pine cone just
as Jesus is depicted using a wand to enact miracles
Tammuz is depicted carrying a thyrsus, a staff or wand with
ivy and a pine cone on the end, identical to one carried by
Dionysus. The use of a wand is somewhat similar to multiple
depictions of Jesus raising Lazarus or turning water into
wine using an augur's wand that was common among the
Roman priestly class.

13. Tammuz and Jesus with wands
Jesus doing miracles with a wand, dated to 300s - 400s A.D.

14. 16. One of his sex poems became a book in the Bible
The Song of Solomon, also known as the Song of Songs or
the Canticle of Canticles, is based on the sacred marriage love
poetry of Dumuzi and Inanna. Dumuzi and Inanna have sex
against an apple tree in a garden, mirroring the sexual
overtones in the Eden story.
17. He was ritually mourned at the Jerusalem Temple by
the women of the city
He next took me to the entrance of the north gate of the
Temple of Yahweh where women were sitting, weeping
for Tammuz.—Ezekiel 8:14
18. The Tau cross was used to designate adherence to
Yahweh instead of him
Strangely enough, after complaining about the fact that the
women of Jerusalem were weeping for Tammuz at the Temple,
Ezekiel then calls for his followers to “Go throughout the city of
Jerusalem and put a [tau cross] mark on the foreheads of
those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things
that are done in it.” Given that the Tau cross is associated with
the Tree of Life, one might suspect that a tau cross should be
put on the foreheads of those who “grieve and lament” over
the death of Tammuz, not those lamenting over the apostasy
of women lamenting for Tammuz. But just as Yahweh takes on
the same aspects of Ba’al while at the same time competing
with him, so too does Yahweh take on the dying-and-rising
aspects of Tammuz while at the same time competing with
him. Ezekiel was an Aaronid priest and one of the few prophets
who speaks about the Temple priesthood being descended
from Zadok, a topic of massive interest to the Quman authors
of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Since the early Zadokite line was
associated with Jerusalem through Zadokite kings such as
Melchi-Zedek and Adoni-Zedek long before the literary
introduction of David, then they probably held older traditions

15. associated with the falling/dying god Shalim that Jerusalem is
named after.
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