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Adonis (mythology)
In Greek mythology, a beautiful youth loved by the goddess Aphrodite. He was killed while boar-hunting but was allowed to return from the underworld for a period every year to rejoin her. The anemone sprang from his blood.
Worshipped as a god of vegetation, he was known as Tammuz in Babylonia, Assyria, and Phoenicia (where it was his sister Ishtar who brought him from the underworld). He seems also to have been identified with Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld.
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