dumuzi – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Must Be the Season of the Alchemist

Hospital, by Han Song, translated by Michael Berry – This is a pretty bizarre book, partially a satire on the medical industry, with the hospital system essentially taking over the world, then branching out from there into increasingly surreal territory. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Animals, Art, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Buddhism, carl barks, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Health, Humor, Magic, Maps, Medicine, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Technology | Tagged city of the plague god, corn jenny, daffy-o, daisy duck, demons, donald duck, duck luck, dumuzi, franz kafka, fury of the dragon goddess, gulliver's travels, gyro gearloose, han song, hollow earth, hospital, huey dewey and louie, ishtar, jack frost, jack in the green, jonathan swift, junior woodchucks, lucian of samosata, ludvig holberg, lugal, magica de spell, michael berry, middlegame, monkeys, niels klim, niels klim's underground travels, rabisu, rick riordan presents, sarwat chadda, satire, scrooge mcduck, seasonal fears, seasons, sikander aziz, stingy jack, stranger than fiction, tammuz, the madcap mariner, the terrible tourist, true history |

Tammuz Talk

Since summer has officially begun, the deity to whom we turn today is one closely associated with the summer, the Babylonian Tammuz. The god was originally known as Dumuzi in Sumeria, but is much better known by his Semitic name, … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Christianity, Egyptian, Greek Mythology, Judaism, Mythology, Religion | Tagged adonis, agriculture, asimov's guide to the bible, attis, dumuzi, ereshkigal, inanna, isaac asmiov, ishtar, jephthah, jerusalem, jesus, jewish calendar, life cycle, osiris, persephone, resurrection, sumeria, summer, tammuz, underworld |