Thammuz

/ -ʊz; ˈtæmuːz /

noun

1. a variant spelling of Tammuz

Example Sentences

One of the most ancient Saviors, Thammuz, is reported to have spent "twelve years in devout and contemplative retirement from the busy world."

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At the same time a crowd of gods, demiurges, and demons, such as Mithra, Thammuz, the good Isis, and Eubulus, meditated taking possession of the peace-enfolded world.

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Milton, in "Paradise Lost," says: "Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day."

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It was said to the Prophet, "Behold, I will show thee worse things than these: women weeping to Thammuz."

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Here must I enter in, here make my dwelling With Thammuz in the mansion of the dead, Driven to Famine's house by love compelling And hunger for the sight of that dear head.

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