The Akitu festival was celebrated twice a year in ancient Mesopotamia, most notably at the beginning of the Babylonian calendar’s first month, Nisannu (March-April), and again in the seventh month, Tashritu (September-October).
It was mainly associated with the Babylonian god Marduk and with the renewal of kingship and of the cosmos.
The main festival fell at the start of Nisannu (March-April), the first month of the Babylonian calendar, and a second one in the seventh month, Tashritu (September-October).
The Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians later adopted it and developed it further.
The Babylonian creation epic, the "Enuma Elish," was recited.
In Assyria, the festival included elements specific to the Assyrian gods and political setting, though many core elements stayed close to the Babylonian tradition.
In the Assyrian city of Assur (Ashur), the temple of the god Ashur was the centre of the New Year celebrations, which shared elements with the Babylonian Akitu festival.
Beginning in the second millennium B.C., Babylonian theologians classified their major gods in a hierarchical numerical order.
"Apkallu" (also spelled "apkallū") and "Abgal" are terms from ancient Mesopotamian mythology, particularly in Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian culture.
Lilith is first mentioned in ancient Babylonian texts as a class of winged female demons that attack pregnant women and infants.
According to the Biblical Archaeology Society, Lilith is first mentioned in Babylonian texts as a class of winged female demons who attack pregnant women and infants.
Source: Babylonian Talmud (Shabbat 151b, Eruvin 100b, Niddah 24b)
That page also carries the Isis Unveiled trail linking Atlantis submersion to Babylonian and Mosaic flood stories.
Lilith is first mentioned in ancient Babylonian texts as a class of winged female demons that attack pregnant women and infants.
Sargon, the first great leader of the Akkadian dynasty, which succeeded the Sumerians, attributed his knowledge to the god Anu, while the Babylonian king Hammurabi was said to have gained power through Marduk, again a reference to the accounts of the Anunnaki.
The Babylonian trinity was composed of Hea, Anu, and Bel. Bel represented the sun, and was the favorite god.
(Accuracy assessment: Bel (Lord) often referred to Enlil or, in later Babylonian times, to Marduk as chief god.
The supreme triad in Babylonian/Sumerian religion was indeed Anu (sky/heaven god), Enlil (later called Bel or Belus, god of earth/storms/wind), and Ea (also Hea or Enki, god of fresh waters/wisdom/crafts/underworld).
The Anunnaki are a group of deities in ancient Mesopotamian cultures, particularly in Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian mythology.
Representing the Babylonian Empire in the dream interpreted by Daniel (Daniel 2:32-38).
The best-known Amorite contribution to history is the founding of the first Babylonian Empire by Amorite dynasties.
In a passage unrelated to the curse on Canaan, the sixth-century Babylonian Talmud says that Ham and his descendants were cursed with black skin, which modern scholars have interpreted as an etiological myth for skin color.
The conflict came to an end by the submersion of the Atlantis; which finds its imitation in the stories of the Babylonian and Mosaic flood.
Cain, the giants, Noah, and the Babylonian flood are, in her reading, later allegories of that same catastrophe.
Sin — Mesopotamian (Sumerian/Akkadian/Babylonian) moon god, often shown with a crescent symbol; later associated with pagan worship in biblical/Christian contexts.
Utu (Sumerian), Shamash (Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian), god of the sun and justice, one of the Anunnaki
The Igigi are mentioned in several ancient Mesopotamian texts, including the Atrahasis Epic and the Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish.
In one Egyptian myth, the bloody hue of the world is ascribed to the blood of Osiris, the mortally wounded planet god; in another myth, it is the blood of Seth or Apopi; in the Babylonian myth, the world was colored red by the blood of the slain Tiamat, the heavenly monster.
Babylonians, too, recorded dust and rain falling from the sky; instances of “bloody rain” have been recorded in diverse countries.
Written down in the mid-17th century BCE, the Atrahasis can be dated by the colophon to the reign of the Babylonian King Hammurabi‘s great-grandson, Ammi-Saduqa (1646-1626 BCE) though the tale itself is considered much older, passed down through oral transmission.
Millard, Atra-hasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood (Oxford, 1969), is also in copyright.