The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 05 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 05 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
9 H. Zimmern, “Der babylonische Gott Tamüz,” _Abhandl. d. Kön. Sächs.
Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften_, xxvii. No. xx. (Leipsic, 1909) p,
723. For the text and translation of the hymns, see H. Zimmern,
“Sumerisch-babylonische Tamüzlieder,” _Berichte über die
Verhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der
Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-historische Klasse_, lix.
(1907) pp. 201-252. Compare H. Gressmann, _Altorientalische Texte
und Bilder_ (Tübingen, 1909), i. 93 _sqq._; W. W. Graf Baudissin,
_Adonis und Esmun_ (Leipsic, 1911), pp. 99 _sq._; R. W. Rogers,
_Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament_ (Oxford, N.D.), pp.
179-185.
M6 Tammuz the lover of Ishtar. Descent of Ishtar to the nether world to
recover Tammuz.
M7 Laments for Tammuz.
10 A. Jeremias, _Die babylonisch-assyrischen Vorstellungen vom Leben
nach dem Tode_ (Leipsic, 1887), pp. 4 _sqq._; _id._, in W. H.
Roscher’s _Lexikon der griech. und röm. Mythologie_, ii. 808, iii.
258 _sqq._; M. Jastrow, _The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_
(Boston, 1898), pp. 565-576, 584, 682 _sq._; W. L. King, _Babylonian
Religion and Mythology_, pp. 178-183; P. Jensen,
_Assyrisch-babylonische Mythen und Epen_, pp. 81 _sqq._, 95 _sqq._,
169; R. F. Harper, _Assyrian and Babylonian Literature_ (New York,
1901), pp. 316 _sq._, 338, 408 _sqq._; H. Zimmern, in E. Schrader’s
_Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament_,3 pp. 397 _sqq._, 561
_sqq._; _id._, “Sumerisch-babylonische Tamūzlieder,” _Berichte über
die Verhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der
Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-historische Klasse_, lix.
(1907) pp. 220, 232, 236 _sq._; _id._, “Der babylonische Gott
Tamūz,” _Abhandlungen der philologisch-historischen Klasse der
Königl. Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften_, xxvii. No. xx.
(Leipsic, 1909) pp. 725 _sq._, 729-735; H. Gressmann,
_Altorientalische Texte und Bilder zum Alten Testamente_ (Tübingen,
1909), i. 65-69; R. W. Rogers, _Cuneiform Parallels to the Old
Testament_ (Oxford, N.D.), pp. 121-131; W. W. Graf Baudissin,
_Adonis und Esmun_ (Leipsic, 1911), pp. 99 _sqq._, 353 _sqq._
According to Jerome (on Ezekiel viii. 14) the month of Tammuz was
June; but according to modern scholars it corresponded rather to
July, or to part of June and part of July. See F. C. Movers, _Die
Phoenizier_, i. 210; F. Lenormant, “Il mito di Adone-Tammuz nei
documenti cuneiformi,” _Atti del IV. Congresso Internazionale degli
Orientalisti_ (Florence, 1880), i. 144 _sq._; W. Mannhardt, _Antike
Wald- und Feldkulte, p. 275; Encyclopaedia Biblica_, _s.v._
“Months,” iii. 3194. My friend W. Robertson Smith informed me that
owing to the variations of the local Syrian calendars the month of
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