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15 09, 2017

Who is Tammuz? Mesopotamia – West Asian religion

By |2019-09-04T05:58:59-07:00September 15th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Who is Tammuz? Mesopotamia – West Asian religion

The god Tammuz (probably) with grain growing from his shoulders A West Asian god Tammuz (or Dumuzi) was a West Asian god who personified growing food, like Persephone in Greece or Osiris in Egypt. [...]

12 07, 2017

Dionysos and the dolphins – Ancient Greece

By |2018-04-23T08:41:52-07:00July 12th, 2017|Greeks, Religion|Comments Off on Dionysos and the dolphins – Ancient Greece

Dionysos turns a ship into grapevines, and the bad sailors into dolphins (Athenian black-figure vase from the 500s BC) One story about Dionysos, which you can see painted on this [...]

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