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Adonis (Phoenician "lord"), in Greek mythology, a favorite of Aphrodite, is a figure with Northwest Semitic antecedents, where he is a central figure in various mystery religions. The Greek Αδωνις (Greek pronunciation: [əˈdoʊnɪs]), Adōnis is a variation of the Semitic word Adonai, "lord", which is also one of the names used to refer to God in the Old Testament. Syrian Adonis is closely related to the Cypriot Gauas or Aos, to Egyptian Osiris, to the Semitic Tammuz and Baal Hadad, to the Etruscan Atunis and the Phrygian Attis, all of whom are deities of rebirth and vegetation. His religion belonged to women: the dying of Adonis was fully developed in the circle of young girls around the poet Sappho from the island of Lesbos, about 600 BCE, as revealed in a fragment of Sappho's surviving poetry.