3.1 Public festivals

There are 103 entries associated with this topic.

The Adonia festival (1)
Adonis = Osiris (1)
Adonis and Aphrodite (1)
Adonis and Aphrodite (2)
Alexander and Babylon (1)
Alexander entering Babylon (1)
Antiochene spring festival during Commodus' reign 180-192 CE (1)
Assurbanipal and the triumph ritual (1)
Autumn New Year's festival (1)
Babylonian substitute king festival (1)
Byblian Damu in the Amarna letter (1)
Byblos sanctuary of Aphrodite (1)
Celebration of Adonia in Antioch (1)
The chest of Osiris (1)
Christ as the defeater of death (1)
The Christmas Day (1)
Conflicting traditions about Semiramis (1)
Continuity of Babylonian festivals (1)
The cult of Adonis (1)
The cult of Nabû in the 4th century (1)
Curtius' description of Babylon (4)
Death and resurrection of Adonis (1)
Death and resurrection of Dumuzi (1)
Death of Tammuz (1)
al-Dimashqī on Tammuz (1)
The favourable sun (1)
A festival of Hierapolis (1)
A festival of Hierapolis (2)
A festival of Hierapolis (3)
From a gardener to king (1)
From a gardener to king (2)
From a gardener to king (3)
Garden and gardener (1)
Garden of Tammuz (1)
Gardens of Adonis (1)
Gardens of Adonis (2)
The goddess' ascent (1)
Greek festival of Adonis and Aphrodite (1)
Greek festival of Adonis and Aphrodite (2)
Hanging Gardens of Babylon (3)
Harran under Muslim rule (1)
Hera's cult on Samos (1)
Herodotus' description of Babylon (2)
The hour of birth (1)
How Semiramis became king (1)
The idol of jealousy (1)
Ištar puts on illnesses (1)
John the Lydian on the Maiuma festival (1)
The Kantean heresy (1)
The king as the hunter of enemies (1)
The lying-in-state of Adonis (1)
Maiuma festival in Antioch (1)
The Maiuma spring festival (1)
The Maiuma spring festival (2)
The Maiuma spring festival at Antioch (1)
The Maiuma spring festival at Antioch (2)
Mani as Physician (1)
Marduk after the battle (1)
Milqia in 4th century CE (1)
Milqia/Arbela in 4th century CE (1)
Mourning for Attis (1)
Mourning of the goddess (1)
Mysteries of the Mother of the Gods (2)
The names of goddesses (1)
Nanai in the Manichaean texts (1)
The New Year festival in Edessa (1)
The New Year of the Mandeans (1)
Nisan 6th as "the good day" (1)
Nisan as the month of victory (1)
Osiris = Dionysus (1)
Paradise as mountain (1)
Paradise on a great height (1)
Paradise on the top of the Ziggurat (1)
The Persian king on a 'Syrian' chariot (1)
Phoenician myth of dying and rising god (1)
The procession of Babylonian king (1)
Reed hut structures {kippa} and {šutukku} (1)
Religious festival of Mesopotamian origin in Edessa (1)
Resurrected one in garden (1)
Resurrection of Melqart (1)
Resurrection of Zoroaster (1)
The River Adonis (1)
A royal ritual displays the Anzû myth (1)
Saviour in the Manichaean texts (1)
Seek paradise (1)
Semiramis built two palaces in Babylon (3)
A spring festival in Edessa, 496 CE (1)
A spring festival in Edessa, 498 CE (1)
A spring festival in Edessa, 499 CE (1)
A spring festival in Edessa, 502 CE (1)
The Syrian god of Elagabalus (1)
Tammuz = Adonis (1)
Tammuz and a Christian martyr (1)
Tammuz and a Christian martyr (2)
Tammuz and Balti (1)
The Tammuz feast of Harranian Sabians (1)
Tammuz in later Mesopotamia (1)
Temple garden at Hierapolis (1)
Weeping for a god (1)
Weeping for Tammuz (1)
Weeping for Tammuz (2)
Weeping in Sun's temple (1)
Weeping in Sun's temple (2)

3. Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices (299)

3.1 Public festivals (103)

3.1 Public festivals (103)

3.1.1 Spring New year’s festival (Nisan/vernal equinox) (9)

3.1.1.1 Procession to Akitu house (2)

3.1.2 Marriage of Nabû (Iyyar/April) (15)

3.1.3 Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice) (48)

3.1.3.1 Wailing of Tammuz (32)

3.1.3.2 Healing of deathly sick (3)

3.1.4 Festival of Ištar (Elul) (5)

3.1.5 Autumn New Year’s festival (Tišri/autumnal equinox) (2)

3.1.6 Race of Nabû (Christmas/winter solstice) (6)

3.1.6.1 Victory over Anzu and Asakku (sin and death) (3)

3.1.6.2 Good tidings (euangelion) (2)

3.1.7 Royal hunt (9)

3.1.7.1 Hunting park (paradeison) (6)

3.1.8 Royal entry (4)

3.1.9 Triumph (2)

3.1.10 Substitute king ritual (7)

 

3.2 Cult of Ištar (164)

3.2 Cult of Ištar (164)

3.2.1 Doctrine of salvation (100)

3.2.1.1 Heavenly origin of the soul (12)

3.2.1.2 Descent/fall of the divine spirit (27)

3.2.1.3 Loss of virtues/garments (9)

3.2.1.4 Spiritual death = nakedness (5)

3.2.1.5 Repentance

3.2.1.6 Prayer

3.2.1.7 Divine grace

3.2.1.8 Spiritual helper/rescuer (8)

3.2.1.8.1 Bread of life (word of god) (2)

3.2.1.8.2 Water of life (baptism) (6)

3.2.1.9 Spiritual rebirth (4)

3.2.1.10 Ascent of the soul (1) (33)

3.2.1.11 Union with god (17)

3.2.1.11.1 Wedding night (3)

3.2.1.11.2 Soul = Bride (7)

3.2.1.11.3 God = Bridegroom (8)

3.2.1.12 Redemption (1)

3.2.1.12.1 Innocent sufferer

3.2.1.13 Resurrection (26)

3.2.2 Devotees of Ištar (19)

3.2.2.1 Effeminates (assinnu) (7)

3.2.2.2 Eunuch devotees (kurgarru/gallos) (15)

3.2.3 Ecstatic techniques (12)

3.2.3.1 Asceticism (1) (1)

3.2.3.2 Fasting and weeping (1) (5)

3.2.3.3 Self-flagellation (1)

3.2.3.4 Self-mutilation (1) (2)

3.2.3.5 Intoxicating music and dance (5)

3.2.4 Transsexuality/androgyny (24)

3.2.4.1 Self-castration (16)

3.2.4.2 Transvetitism

3.2.5 Possession by god/frenzy (8)

3.2.6 Prophecy (16)

3.2.7 Sacred prostitutes (3)

 

3.3 Service of god (24)

3.3 Service of god (24)

3.3.1 Prostration before god

3.3.2 Illuminating god’s face

3.3.3 Purifying the temple (3)

3.3.3.1 Censers (1)

3.3.3.2 Torches (1)

3.3.3.3 Incensation (1)

3.3.4 Feeding god (9)

3.3.4.1 Setting the offering table (bread, fruit, nuts etc.)

3.3.4.2 Libations (wine, beer, honey and oil) (4)

3.3.4.3 Animal offerings (3)

3.3.4.4 Burnt offerings (maqlutu) (1)

3.3.5 Lamentations and chants (1)

3.3.5.1 Choirs of castrated singers

3.3.6 Psalms and songs

3.3.7 Dressing and bathing gods

3.3.8 Lighting candles

3.3.9 Processions of divine images (3)

3.3.10 Circumambulating the temple

3.3.11 Giving presents (3)

3.3.12 Kissing the ground (2)

 

3.4 Secular rituals (8)

3.4 Secular rituals (8)

3.4.1 Marriage (4)

3.4.1.1 Crown of bride

3.4.1.2 Veiling of bride

3.4.1.3 Wedding ring

3.4.2 Funeral ritual (4)

3.4.2.1 Funeral display (1)

3.4.2.2 Washing the feet

3.4.2.3 Wailing (1)

3.4.2.4 Circumambulation of bed

3.4.2.5 Offerings to infernal gods

3.4.2.6 Breaking of glass

3.4.2.7 Funeral burning