The Sumerian Dumuzi is the Greek Dionysus

 

One of the lovers of Inanna/Ishtar was Dumuzi.  He was killed by several other people as talked about in Sumerian-Babylonian myth entitled, The Dream of Dumuzi.  In it he tells his sister-wife, Geshtinanna about a bad dream he had regarding his murder (sounds like Balder's dream from Nordic mythology).  She does not want to hear it but tells him it is a bad sign.  At the end of the poem, Dumuzi is accosted by several men and murdered. This is the only Sumerian God that is murdered just as Dionysus-Osiris and his other names was the only God who was murdered.  The description of the murder involves being bludgeoned to death as opposed to the Egyptian story of Osiris being locked in a coffin to die and the Nordic story of the mistletoe arrow killing Balder.  But there is only one God that is murdered in all mythologies by a group of men and so I conclude that Dumuzi is the Greek Dionysus.  Here are some passages from the ancient Sumerian-Babylonian myth, The Dream of Dumuzi:



The galla surrounded Dumuzi.
They bound his hands; they bound his neck.
They beat the husband of Inanana.
Dumuzi raised his arms to heaven, to Utu, the God of Justice,
and cried out:

"O Utu, you are my brother-in-law,
I am the husband of your sister.
I am the one who carried food to the holy shrine.
I am the one who brought wedding gifts to Uruk.
I kissed the holy lips.
I danced on the holy knees, the knees of Inanna.

Change my hands into the hands of a gazelle.
Change my feet into the feet of a gazelle.
Let me escape from my demons.
Let me flee to Kubiresh!"


Dumuzi escapes but is found again and beaten to death by the men who attacked him.


The galla climbed the reed fence.
The first galla struck Dumuzi on the cheek with a piercing nail,
The second galla struck Dumuzi on the other check with the shepherd's
crook,
The third galla smashed the bottom of the churn,
The fourth galla threw the drinking cup down from its peg,
The fifth galla shattered the churn,
The sixth galla shattered the cup,
The seventh galla cried:
"Rise, Dumuzi!
Husband of Inanna, son of Situr, brother of Geshtinanna!
Rise from your false sleep!
Your ewes are seized! Your lambs are seized!
Your goats are seized! Your kids are seized!
Take off your holy crown from your head!
Take off your me-garment from your body!
Let your royal sceptre fall to the ground!
Take of your holy sandals from your feet!
Naked, you go with us!"

The galla seized Dumuzi.
They surrounded him.
They bound his hands.  They bound his neck.

The churn was silent.  No milk poured.
The cup was shattered.  Dumuzi was no more.
The sheepfold was given to the winds.


(Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer pages 81-84.)



Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumuzid_the_Shepherd

The Death of Balder

 

Loki and Sigyn (1863) by Mårten Eskil Winge (public domain)

It is said that nothing could harm Balder except for one thing, mistletoe.  One day, Balder played a game where he let men shoot arrows and throw things at him, since none would harm him.  Then Loki, being the trickster her was, made an arrow of mistletoe and got the blind got Hoder to shoot it at Balder.  It killed him.

Hodr was killed for this act and Loki was blamed for the death of Balder and punished by being chained in a cave where a snake drips burning venom on him.  His wife Sigyn, tries to catch the venom in a bowl before it burns Loki, but can't always catch it because she has to empty the bowl eventually.

This tale of the death of Balder, is the Nordic version of the death and murder of Dionysus-Osiris by Prometheus-Set and the other conspirators. 


by Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com and www.hiddenhumanstory.com)

Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki

Nordic Gods and Goddesses Frigg, Thor, Tyr, Balder, Loki, and Hermoor

 

A depiction of Odin and Frigg (1895) by Lorenz Frølich (public domain)

 

Frigg is the wife of Odin-Zeus and is the Greek Hera.

 

Thor's Battle Against the Jötnar (1872) by Mårten Eskil Winge (public domain)

Thor is a powerful warrior and is the Greek Heracles.


Tyr is also a God of War and is the Greek Ares.

 

Tyr sacrifices his arm to Fenrir in a 1911 illustration by John Bauer. (public domain)

Loki is a trickster God and is responsible for the death of Balder.  He is the Greek Prometheus.

 

Loki, from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript (public domain)

Balder is the murdered son of Odin who died by the trickery of Loki.  He is the Greek Dionysus.

 

Baldr's Death" (1817) by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.(public domain)

 

Hermóðr rides to Hel on Sleipnir. He meets Hel and Baldr. From the 18th century Icelandic manuscript NKS 1867 4to. (public domain)

Hermoor is the messenger of Odin and he is the Greek Hermes.



I have shown through my Mythological Unification Theory that as with other mythologies, the Nordic Gods and Goddesses (referred to as originally from Asia and not Nordic by Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla) are the same as the Cronide family and Greek god/goddess equivalents.


by Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com and www.hiddenhumanstory.com)



Links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BDr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herm%C3%B3%C3%B0r


by Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com and www.hiddenhumanstory.com)