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**2. The Jewish calendar of today is the same one used by the ancient Mesopotamians, and the fourth
month still bears the Semitic name of Dumuzi, Tammuz. The prophet Ezekiel also notes a group of
women in Jerusalem "mourning for Tammuz" in Ezek. 8:14; this refers to the legend that claims
Dumuzi died and went to the underworld for six months of every year, causing the world to become
cold and lifeless (fall and winter) until he came back.***

Have you read THE GOLDEN BOUGH by Sir James Frazier?
There is a very interesting chapter on the Tammuz-Attis-Adonis-Isis-Osiris legends. Well worth the time to read it.(but it is lo-o-o-ng!)

6 posted on 04/13/2003 5:38:33 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)

It may tie in with the cult of Demeter whose daughter
resides in the underworld for half the year causing
Demeter to mourn and life to die back during the winter.

12 posted on 05/02/2015 8:41:53 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)