Dumuzi

Tammuz, the Babylonian "Dumuzi," was the god of spring vegetation, who dies, going down to Hades, and revives again with each returning summer.

Thus the crab is a figure of ‘the darkness power’ which seized the Accadian solar hero, Dumuzi, and ‘which is constantly represented in monstrous and drakontic form.’

But Izdubar, in his pride, rejected the love of the goddess; he insulted her and taunted her with having loved Dumuzi and others before him.

Tammuz is Dumuzi, “the true son,” or more fully, Dumuzi-absu, “true son of the waters.”

Thus the crab is a figure of ‘the darkness power’ which seized the Akkadian solar hero, Dumuzi, and ‘which is constantly represented in monstrous and drakontic form.’