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Dumuzid the Fisherman. Figure of a priest king from the Uruk period (3300 BC). Dumuzid, [a] titled the Fisherman, [b] was a legendary Sumerian king of Uruk listed originating from Kuara. According to legend, in the one-hundredth year of his reign, he was captured by Enmebaragesi .
According to the Sumerian King List ( ETCSL 2.1.1 ), Dumuzid was the fifth antediluvian king of the city of Bad-tibira. [4] Dumuzid was also listed as an early king of Uruk, [4] where he was said to have come from the nearby village of Kuara [4] and to have been the consort of the goddess Inanna. [4]
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Mythology. Meet Dumuzid: The Ancient Mesopotamian God Who Died and Resurrected. By. Jimmy Joe. 0. Dumuzid, the god of shepherds and the husband of Inanna, was worshiped by the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians thousands of years before the first books of the Hebrew Bible were written.
Dumuzid of Bad-Tibira, the shepherd (reigning 36000 years), the fifth King before the Flood; Dumuzid of Kua, the fisherman (reigning 100 years), the third King of the first dynasty, reigning between Lugalbanda and Gilgamesh the son of Lugalbanda
Aug 10, 2023 · Enmebaragesi succeeded Iltasadum on the throne, where he reigned for 900 years, supposedly leading a successful campaign against Elam and ultimately capturing the legendary third King of Uruk, Dumuzid the Fisherman, in Uruk itself.
Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz, known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd and to the Canaanites as Adon, is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity associated with agriculture and shepherds, who was also the first and primary consort of the goddess Inanna. In Sumerian mythology, Dumuzid's sister was Geshtinanna, the goddess of agriculture ...
Dumuzid "the Fisherman", originally from Kuara in Sumer, was the 3rd king in the 1st Dynasty of Uruk, and Gilgamesh's predecessor, according to the Sumerian king list. The king list also states that he singlehandedly captured Enmebaragesi, ruler of Kish, and it claims he ruled in Uruk for 100 years — far fewer than the 1200 years it ascribes ...
