Akitu or Akitum (Sumerian: 𒀉𒆠𒋾, romanized: a-ki-ti) (Akkadian: 𒀉𒆠𒌈, romanized: akītu(m)) is a spring festival and New Year's celebration, held on...
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Etemenanki in Babylon", Zabern, 1995, ISBN 3-8053-1610-0 Schmidt, J., "Das Bīt Akītu von Babylon. Mit einem Beitrag von B. Finster", BaM 33, pp. 281–31, 2002...
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Akitu festival in Babylon, and Sargon II made Babylon his temporary residence while Dur-Sharrukin was under construction and took part in the Akitu....
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local mythos and its divine Patrons The success of the reigning Monarch The Akitu, or New Year Festival (first full moon after spring equinox) Commemoration...
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Alberto Nicolas (2016). Balancing Power and Space: a Spatial Analysis of the Akītu Festival in Babylon after 626 BCE (Master's thesis). Universiteit Leiden...
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origins was lost. Several motifs replicate the features associated with the Akitu spring festival of ancient Mesopotamian religion, which celebrates the sowing...
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connection between the Babylonian festival Akitu and Rosh Hashanah, as there are some striking similarities. The Akitu festival of Ur was celebrated in the...
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in Babylonia, and several traditionally Babylonian rituals, such as the akitu festival, were borrowed in the north. Ashur's role as the chief deity was...
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because he had already returned from Harran and had participated in the Akitu of Nissanu 1 [4 April], 539 BC. Waters, Matt, "CYRUS AND SUSA", Revue d'Assyriologie...
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the Seleucid empire, but Aramaic continued in use.." Julye Bidmead, The Akitu Festival: Religious Continuity and Royal Legitimation in Mesopotamia, (Gorgias...
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of Babylon in 689 BCE, reformed aspects of Ashur's cult. He built a new akītu house in Assur, and Ashur instead of Marduk was the centre of the festival...
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also known as Resha d-Sheta (Syriac: ܪܫܐ ܕܫܢܬܐ, "Head of the year") and as Akitu (ܐܟܝܬܘ), or Assyrian New Year,[unreliable source?] is the spring festival...
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and All Souls' Day are observed in the spring in the Southern hemisphere. Akitu (Ancient Mesopotamia, Sumer, Babylonia) Bihu (India) Chinese New Year Floriade...
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the first came in 1952 and written by Nimrod Simono and dealt with the Akitu festival, then an article by Jean Alkhas in 1955 (April, issue 34) fixed...
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Farmer's Almanac", after the flood season and after the Spring equinox and the Akitu or New Year Festival, using the canals, farmers would flood their fields...
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wind" (< Japanese toki "time" + -tsu + Japanese kaze "wind"). However, akitu or akidu are also archaic or dialectal Japanese words for "dragonfly", so...
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that Babylon was captured on 16th Tašrîtu, which was the night before the akitu festival in honor of Sin, the moon god. The Cyropaedia, a partly fictional...
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