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Geshtinanna

Mesopotamian deity

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relationship to Tammuz

In Tammuz
His sister, Geshtinanna, eventually finds him, and the myth ends with Inanna decreeing that Tammuz and his sister may alternate in the netherworld, each spending half of the year among the living.
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