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Vol. II · Polytheism · love
Tammuz
Mesopotamian beloved shepherd
his beauty mourned by Ishtar as he descends to the underworld, vegetation dying above as he passes the seven gates
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 3) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.