This is the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year, the seventh month of the Arabic calendar, and the fourth month of the civil year on the Hebrew calendar. It is a summer month of 29 days.
The name of the month was adopted from the Babylonian calendar, in which the month was named after one of the main Babylonian gods, Tammuz.
Of Babylonian origin, the month was established in honor of the eponymous god Tammuz, which is a corrupt form of the Akkadian farming-god Dumuzi[?], the consort of Ishtar and the parallel of Adonis in the Greek pantheon.
Tammuz was sentenced to the underworld by Ishtar as a punishment for his inattention when she was condemned there.
Tammuz being the god of crop fertility, this corresponds to the changing of the seasons as the abundance of the earth diminishes in his absence.
Tammûz) is the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year and the fourth month of the civil year on the Hebrew calendar.
The name of the month was adopted from the Babylonian calendar, in which the month was named after one of the main Babylonian gods, Tammuz (Sumerian Dumuzi).
Tammuz, is similar to Nissan (Nisan in Turkish), in relation to the Turkish civil calendar, wherein, it is spelt Temmuz.
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