ADARRU The Twelfth Month |
(either Akkadian "Worried" "Eclipsed;" Elamite or foreign word)
(1) End (3) Barley Harvest (4) Festival of Baba / When the Calves Begin to Mature (4a,b,c) Consumption of the Barley (5) Working with Barley (8) Dumuzi (9a) Nergal (en-dag-ga) (11) l) The Netherworld
(Bm) Regents of the Monthly Decans, Aries Vernal Equinox. |
1.(8) Festival of Dumuzi sometime during the month; Sacred Marriage with Inanna?; (11) Cult of Dead observed in Assyrian month Hubur; (13) humtum-Festival for Samas in 12th month; (15) lamentations recited before Assur, followed by offerings;
2.(15) Assyria, lamentation and ersemma sung to Ninlil, followed by offerings; Kettledrum performance;
3.(15) Lamentation and ersemma sung to Assur in temple of Dagan; King enters before Assur and Ninlil; censer and torches set before Assur and Ninlil; singers sing hymns; meal including goat meat offered to Assur and Ninlil; Goddess Sarrat-nipha present at banquet;
4.(12d) tebibtum (purification ritual); (KL) Breaking of Three-day Fast;
5.(15) Lamentation and ersemma recited to Assur, followed by offerings; lamentation recited before King accompanied by kettledrum; King escorts Bel-age to temple of Anu, other Gods following; censer and torches before Assur; sheep sacrificed, beer and food offered; King returns to Palace; (part of the ritual involves salt strewn over mutton);
6.(5) Festial of Carnelian Statue of Enlil;(4c or 5) Festival of Carnelian Statue of Su-Sin; (12d) tebibtum (purification ritual) twice; (15) Lamentation and ersemma recited before Assur; King goes out to Palace courtyard, given wine and salt to be used for offerings; Queen says three times "Serua has started out;" King enters temple of Adad, burns incense, lights a torch, makes and offering involving strewing salt around; (15) Babylonia, processional journey of the Gods;
7.(5) Festival of Carnelian Statue of Su-Sin; (15) ablution to Assur; Kettledrum performance; (KL) Feast of Hermes-Mercury;
8.(15) Kettledrum performance in Assyria; (PT) Sacrificial meal for Antu;
9.(15) Kettledrum performance in Assyria (festival continued through to 18th, but 11th to 16th too fragmentary to reconstruct);
10.(7) Festival of Enki;(PT) Sacrificial meal for Mistress of the Steppe;
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13.(5) beginning ? of se-kin-ku Festival; (Bm) may not eat fish and fowl, because of Ea;
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16.(Bm) King must release a prisoner;
17.(15) qarratu-Festival in Assyria; lamentations and ersemmas recited;
18.(15) qarratu-Festival in Assyria; lamentations and ersemmas recited;
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20.(Bm) Milk, flesh and wine forbidden, cannot wear any covering for hands;
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27.(7) Festival of the Wailing at the Mourning-site;(PT) Incantation;
28.(7) Festival of the Wailing at the Mourning-site;(PT) Incantation; (KL) Celebration at qubbah al-'ujurr in honor of Mars;
29.(PT) Incantation;
30.(KL) Festival in honor of the Marriage of the Gods and Goddesses;