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Updated: May 11, 2025
A better approach to a trinity is formed by Ea of Eridu, Davkina his wife who is the earth, and the sun-god Dumuzi, their offspring. In Sergul the principal deity was the fire-god, sometimes called Savul; in Cutha they worshipped Nergal the god of death, the "strong one" who had his throne beneath. Cutha was a favourite place of sepulture with the Babylonians.
Thus the crab is a figure of 'the darkness power' which seized the Akkadian solar hero, Dumuzi, and 'which is constantly represented in monstrous and drakontic form. The bull, again, is connected with night and darkness, 'in relation to the horned moon, and is, for other reasons, 'a nocturnal potency. Few stars, to tell the truth, are diurnal potencies. Mr.
It is therefore not improbable that, like the god Dumuzi, or Tammuz, he was supposed to descend into the underworld in winter, ascending to the surface of the earth with the earliest green shoots of vegetation in the spring.* * Cf. Thureau-Dangin, Rev. d'Assyr., vol. vi. , p. 24.
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