Tammuz

TAMMUZ - "Perfecting fire". "To perfect", "to purify". A sun-god; god of fire.From tam, "to make perfect", and muz, "fire". (Note: Recorded in a Zoroastrian verse, "All things are the progeny of one fire. The father perfected all things, and delivered them to the second mind, whom all nations of men call the first." The fire is the father of all, and the 2nd mind is obviously the child who replaced Nimrod.) Spoken of in Ezekial. Commonly called Bacchus among classical writers. See: Adonis