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Tammuz = Adonis (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Wailing of Tammuz 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.01 Public festivals 03.01.03 Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice) 03.01.03.01 Wailing of Tammuz	Keywords Adonis Bethlehem
Period 4th century CE Roman Empire	Channel Christian-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Jerome, Letters 58.3:
Bethlehem which is now ours, the most august place in the universe … was shaded by the sacred wood of Tammuz, that is, Adonis. And in the grotto where the newborn Christ once cried, there were tears for the lover of Venus.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Jerome, Letters 58.3

Bibliography

Turcan 1996, 148

Turcan, Robert. The Cults of the Roman Empire. Oxford, Cambridge MA: Blackwell 1986.

Amar Annus

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