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TAMMUZ

Greek Adonis.

The Babylonian god of spring slain by summer heat, or the god of summer slain by winter cold. The “weeping for Tammuz was a festival in the autumn, a lament over the season’s decline (Ezek. 8: 14). Tammuz was the Jewish name for June or July after the Captivity.

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