> the child being born, he was dedicated to the temple as a nazirite (judges 13:5), meaning "one who is consecrated". the sixth chapter of the book of numbers tells us that "when either man or woman shall clearly utter a vow, the vow of a nazirite, to consecrate himself unto the lord, he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine, nor vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. all the days of his naziriteship shall he eat nothing that is made of the grape vine, from the pressed grapes even to the grape-stone."  > what we should make of this, given the facts of shimshon's life, i shall return to later, noting now only that there are rather too many contradictions for comfort. the book of numbers continues: "all the days of his vow of naziriteship no razor shall come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, in which he consecrates himself to the lord, he shall be holy, he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long". in greek and other iconography, including the celtic, the sun-hero is invariably depicted with long, golden locks, symbolic of the sun's rays. it is surely no coincidence that samson in yehudit is shimshon (), the root being shemesh (), the sun. the aramaic equivalent of shemesh is tammuz, the endlessly dying endlessly reborn son of the moon-goddess inanna, equivalent to egyptian osher (osiris), assyrian adonis, greek attis, christian jesus. ezekiel tells us (8:14) that tammuz was worshipped at the north gate of the temple in yeru-shala'im as late as the time of the babylonian exile, in the 6th century bce, and he identifies this worship (8:16) with the sun cult. tammuz's nativity in yisra-el is identified with bethlehem  beth lechem ephratah is its full name, which means in yehudit "the house of the corn god of the euphrates"
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