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Tammuz

Alternative parentage: son (and consort) of Ishtar
[R69]

Sun god and god of fertility.[R69]
Brother of Belil and Belet-Serti.
[R69]
Or brother of Ningishzida.
[R69]
As son of Ishtar, she had him torn to pieces and tossed into the sea, but afterwards, she went to the underworld to retrieve him.
[R69]
Another account states that he was killed by a boar.
[R69]
One of the doorkeepers of heaven.
[R69]


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