Tammuz (deity) - Literary References

Literary References

• John Milton, "Paradise Lost", Book I

THAMMUZ came next behind,
Whose annual wound in LEBANON allur'd
The SYRIAN Damsels to lament his fate
In amorous dittyes all a Summers day,
While smooth ADONIS from his native Rock
Ran purple to the Sea, suppos'd with blood
Of THAMMUZ yearly wounded: the Love-tale
Infected SION'S daughters with like heat,
Whose wanton passions in the sacred Porch
EZEKIEL saw, when by the Vision led
His eye survey'd the dark Idolatries
Of alienated JUDAH.

• Oscar Wilde, "Charmides"

And then each pigeon spread its milky van,
The bright car soared into the dawning sky
And like a cloud the aerial caravan
Passed over the Ægean silently,
Till the faint air was troubled with the song
From the wan mouths that call on bleeding Thammuz all night long

• In the book series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott, Tammuz is one of the Elders, a race of magical beings that have lived on Earth since before humans existed. He is also known as the "Green Man", and is the Elder who made Palamedes immortal.