eye of death on
Dumuzi and sent him to the underworld in her place.
She picks her husband,
Dumuzi, mainly because he hasn't mourned her properly, and some feathered harpies drag the farmer-god down, kicking and screaming.
Each of the constellations in the path of the Moon was equated with a god, and the MUL.APIN confirms that the Day Laborer is the god
Dumuzi, a fertility god and divine personification of cyclical renewal.
His earliest known form was the Sumerian shepherd - god
Dumuzi. He was most widely known in later times in the modified form of Adonis.
For DD, see Alster,
Dumuzi's Dream: Aspects of Oral Poetry in a Sumerian Myth (Copenhagen: Aka-demisk Forlag, 1972).
Sefati, Love Songs in Sumerian Literature: Critical Edition of the
Dumuzi Inanna Songs (Ramat Gan: Bar-IIan Univ.
(18) When she is subsequently resurrected through a trick contrived by the god Enki, a trick notably unavailable to Apsu as Ea is his killer in Enuma elis, it falls upon the unfortunate
Dumuzi to take his wife's place in the netherworld.
Those likely to use the book can surely be expected to understand that Shulgi may be followed by an r or
Dumuzi by a d; since we are not attempting "normalized" Sumerian, this type of hybrid form seems unnecessary and confusing.
Feeding
Dumuzi's Sheep: The Lexicon as a Source of Literary Inspiration.