{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entity_relationships", "rows": [[1502, "ENT_MES_DUMUZI_TAMMUZ", "received_as", "ENT_ADONIS", "low", "The Greek Adonis is the reception of the Semitic \"Adon\" (lord), the Phoenician/Syrian dying vegetation deity whose annual mourning rites were celebrated at Byblos on the Adonis River. This deity is the Phoenician Iron Age reception of the Mesopotamian Dumuzi/Tammuz tradition: Tammuz (= Dumuzi) was mourned annually in Mesopotamian ritual (Ezekiel 8:14 attests this in Jerusalem), and the rite transmitted to Phoenicia and then to Greece as the Adonis cult. The Greek Adonis myth \u2014 the beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite, killed by a boar, mourned annually, descending to and returning from the underworld \u2014 reproduces the Dumuzi/Inanna narrative structure. Lucian (De Syria Dea 6-9) describes the Byblos rites as a transmission from \"Osiris\" via Phoenicia. Confidence low because the transmission route goes through Phoenician intermediaries (not direct Mesopotamian\u2192Greek contact) and the add_phoenician_iron_age_layer.sql script adds the Phoenician intermediate entities.", "SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV", "reviewed", "PER_GRK_ARCHAIC"]], "columns": ["relationship_id", "subject_entity_id", "relationship_type", "object_entity_id", "confidence", "rationale", "source_id", "review_status", "period_id"], "primary_keys": ["relationship_id"], "primary_key_values": ["1502"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6856210000023566, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}