Babylonian Akitu festival | Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages

Neutral catalog summary

About this record

Babylonian Akitu festival is cataloged as a Rite / ceremony within Historical Religions & Mystery Cults. Its public geographic context is “Historical or contested polity; no modern country assigned” and its period or origin is “Second–first millennia BCE.” It is associated with the parent tradition “Ancient Mesopotamian religion.”

This summary is assembled only from the record fields shown below. It does not add ritual instructions, doctrinal claims or inferred geography.

Record fields

Alternate / historical names: Akitu; Akītu; Babylonian New Year festival; Zagmuk
Parent tradition: Ancient Mesopotamian religion
Public geographic context: Historical or contested polity; no modern country assigned
Period / origin: Second–first millennia BCE
Living / historical status: Historical civic-temple festival
Access / protocol: Scholarly / historical only
Evidence status: Directly cited

Geography

Candidate

Historical or contested polity; no modern country assigned

Historical or contested context in the source record is not converted into a modern political claim.

Public geographic context is limited to country level or broader. A documented site may still be named as the record’s public identity, but no subnational location field or coordinates are published.

Where to read more

A citation identifies a source to consult; it does not establish every claim in this record.

Source 1britishmuseum.org

Source 2cambridge.org

Stable attribution

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Babylonian Akitu festival. Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages, record 1022. https://esotericlineages.com/entry/1022

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