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Descent in the mid-twentieth century appeared to disprove the previous scholarly assumption that the narrative ended with Dumuzid's resurrection and instead revealed that it ended with Dumuzid's death. However, the rescue of Dumuzid from the underworld was later found in the text Return of Dumuzid, translated in 1963.

Worship

God of milk and shepherds

The Assyriologists Jeremy Black and Anthony Green describe the early history of Dumuzid's cult as "complex and

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