Adonis, a beautiful man beloved by Aphrodite, he was killed by a wild boar. Aphrodite begged Zeus to restore him to life, but Persephone had also become enamoured of him and would not let him go until Zeus decreed that he should spend half of each year in the upper world and the other half in the underworld. In spring the festival of his rebirth was celebrated, especially by women. Adonis was also worshipped in Babylonia, under the name Tammuz, and thence the cult spread into Palestine among "the dark idolatries or alienated Judah.