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Birthday of the Moon (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Harran
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
12.03.02.01 Harran
Moon
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.01 Astral and celestial symbols and imagery
02.01.02 Moon
Sabians
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
12.03.02.02 Sabians

Keywords
calendars
cults
Harran

Period
10th century CE

Channel
Islamic philosophers and scholars

Text
al-Nadīm, Fihrist 9.1:
On the 24th day (of 10th month) there is the birthday of the lord who is the Moon. At this time they observe the mystery to the North, slaughtering sacrificial victims and burning eighty creatures, both four-footed beasts and birds. They eat and drink and for the gods and goddesses they burn al-dādhī, which are rods of pine.

Source (list of abbreviations)
al-Nadīm, Fihrist 9.1

Bibliography

Dodge 1970, 763

Dodge, Bayard. The Fihrist of al-Nadim. A tenth-century survey of Muslim culture. New York, London: Columbia University Press 1970.

Amar Annus

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