Thammuz

From his earliest volumes--Wounded Thammuz (1942), Beauty and the Beast (1943), The Divided Ways (1946), and The Swarming of the Bees (1950)--Heath-Stubbs showed a predilection for past cultures, for myth and legend, and for both humanistic and Christian traditions.

Milton gives a catalog of the most notable devils, including Moloch, Chemos, Astoreth, Thammuz, and Belial.

All Milton's learning comes into play as he portrays the exodus of the pagan deities at the birth of Christ: Peor and Baalim Forsake their Temples dim, With that twice-batter'd god of Palestine, and mooned Ashtaroth Heav'n's Queen and Mother both, Now sits not girt with Tapers' holy shine, The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn, In vain the Tyrian Maids their wounded Thammuz mourn.