According to the Akkadian God, Tammuz, who predates Christ by about 2000 years. Tammuz, Thammuz or, in ancient Sumero-Babylonian, Dumuzi, was a fertility god associated with crops and the harvest. He was no doubt associated with a death-and-resurrection ritual which was related, in some cases, to the annual cycle of vegetation.
To the Christians, Tammuz became the disciple Thomas while to the ancients he became Adoni (Phoenician), Adonai (Syrio-Hebrew) and Adonis (Greek) ...
Adonis, whose name adon in Hebrew means "lord" or "master", was born to a virgin on December 25. It was alleged Adonis, also called the "Anointed One", "suffered for mankind" before his death and subsequent resurrection at the time of the Spring Equinox (Easter).
There is a scripture in the "book of Jeremiah" of the bible which commemorates a god in which people celebrate an occasion held towards the end of the year that is similar to christmas.
Jer:10:3: For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
Jer:10:4: They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
According to MD Aletheia, the festival of the "Resurrection of Adonis" was observed in Alexandria, the cradle of Christianity,
On other occasions, to daily cycles. Tammuz was a sun god who, in his daily cycle, rose from his cave in the morning, travelled across the sky by day, before returning to his cave at night. Tammuz was then said to have descended into the "land of no return" before his resurrection the next day. Significantly, as dawn approached the next day, a halo appeared, encircling the rising sun.
The halo worn by the infant Jesus is said to be connected with the Tammuz myth. Like the "dog collar" it also has been linked to the Roman Saturnus. In addition, the Christian practice of praying with eyes closed is a reminder that Jesus originally descends from a sun god tradition ("son of God"; "sun of God"). Why else would the ancients pray with their eyes closed unless it was to shield their eyes from the sun moving across the sky?
Like Jesus, Tammuz, in his seasonal cycle, was born to a virgin, called Mylitta, on December 25 - the height of the winter solstice. Tammuz allegedly performed miracles, healed the sick and suffered a painful death in order to become mankind's saviour. On the third day, some accounts claimed, Tammuz was resurrected, like Jesus, into a new life of eternal blessedness.
