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The Akitu Festival: Religious Continuity and Royal Legitimation in Mesopotamia

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 | #4358891 in Books |  2014-03-03 | Original language:English | File type: PDF | 235 pages

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|| |It is quite correct to underline that the festival had not only religious but also social and political levels, and Bidmead's attempt to examine these levels is commendable. We can congratulate the author on a courageous effort. --M.J.H. Linssen, Bibliotheca O

Religious ritual is embedded with socio-political ideologies. Nowhere is this more apparent then in the ancient Babylonian akitu, or New Year festival. The akitu festival is one of the oldest recorded religious festivals in the world, celebrated for several millennia throughout ancient Mesopotamia. Yet, the akitu was more than just a religious ceremony; it acted as a political device employed by the monarchy and/or the central priesthood to ensure the supremacy of the ki...

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