Tammuz
Tammuz was betrothed to the goddess Ishtar, who descended into the underworld to rescue him from death. He is fundamentally a fertility god associated with the miracle of the harvests. His death and resurrection were celebrated during spring and autumn.
There are certain parallels between the story of Tammuz and that of Adonis (see mitologiagrecorromana). Like Adonis, he is killed by a boar, and during the time he remains in the underworld all vegetation withers. The Sumerian account of the “journey of Inanna to the underworld” is an early version of the myth of Ishtar and Tammuz, but with the names Inanna and Dumuzi, and it preserves an ancient song lamenting the loss of the god: “Who is your sister? I am she. Who is your mother? I am she. The day dawns equally for you and for me. We both must see the same day.”