Once upon there was a little girl who had a screen memory. In it, she saw a woman follow the sound of laughter into a room where she found her husband and another woman in flagrante delicto.
Why that little girl saw what she saw and what business she had in that memory it is unknown, but it led her down a path of mental illness, isolation, and a lifetime of therapy.
Gilgamesh references Tammuz in Tablet VI of the Epic of Gilgamesh as the love of Ishtar's youth, who was turned into an allalu bird with a broken wing. Dumuzid was associated with fertility and vegetation and the hot, dry summers of Mesopotamia were believed to be caused by Dumuzid's yearly death.
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