About this deity
Dumuzi was the primary consort of Inanna according to the Sumerian tradition.
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Parent belief system
Sumerian Religion · Polytheistic · 7 mythsSumerian religion refers to spiritual beliefs practiced from ca. 4500-1900 BCE in Mesopotamia, or modern-day southern Iraq. Many deities were diffused into other Mesopotamian cultures.
Top myths
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| Adapa and the South Wind | Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld | |
| Creation myth | Afterlife myth | |
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Mythological stories including Dumuzi
- Adapa and the South Wind Creation myth
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- Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld Afterlife myth
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Inanna descends from the great above to the great below. She abandons several temples and heads for open country. She gives precise instructions to her companion—Ninsubur: Inanna says "if I don't return in three days, go to the temples and plead on my behalf." At the netherworld she enters and goes through seven gates before she is turned into a corpse. Ninsubur follows the instructions and tells Inanna's father Enkil what happened. He helps her by sending two a-sexual creatures to sneak in and bring her back to life. Once Inanna is alive she ascends while being escorted by demons from the netherworld. The demons allow her to trade her husband Dumuzi in her place.
Cite this page
OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Dumuzi." OMNIKA – World Mythology Index, OMNIKA Foundation, 07 Jun. 2020, omnika.org/stable/592. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
OMNIKA (2020, June 07). Dumuzi. Retrieved from https://omnika.org/stable/592
OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Dumuzi." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created June 07, 2020. Accessed March 26, 2025. https://omnika.org/stable/592.
