The name of a Mesopotamian deity, appearing in Ezekiel 8:14 where women are seen weeping for Tammuz at the temple gate. This is Dumuzi in Sumerian, a god associated with vegetation, death, and fertility whose cult involved ritual mourning for his death. The Greeks identified him with Adonis. His worship spread throughout the ancient Near East, and the prophet condemns its presence at Jerusalem's temple as abominable syncretism. The deity later gave his name to a month in the Babylonian calendar (roughly June-July), still used in the Hebrew calendar today.