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Tammuz

In Sumerian mythology, a vegetation god representing the decay and growth of natural life; he died at midsummer and was rescued from the underworld the following spring by his lover Ishtar. His cult spread over Babylonia, Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine. He was possibly identified with the Egyptian Osiris and the Greek Adonis.

His name was given to the fourth month of the Babylonian and Hebrew year.
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The civil servant, a worker for the Mosul Municipal Department, was shot dead by gunmen in the Tammuz 17 neighborhood, western Mosul," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Employee shot down by gunmen in Mosul by Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq)
En is Christus en sy "oertipes" soos Zagreus, Tammuz of Osiris nie dus maar net "beelde van die mens", drome, ervarings wat later "verplaas word na die lewe"--menslike bedenksels dus.
'n Skeptiese Satan aan die woord by Viljoen, Hein / Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
The predicament of the generals, who for the first time appear unable to protect Israel's own heartland, is that revenge for 2006 will no longer be a matter of "elimination," a quick deterring slap as with the strike against Iraq's Tammuz nuclear reactor.
The Generals of Predicament by Dar Al Hayat, International ed. (Beirut, Lebanon)
 
 
 
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