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Updated: June 30, 2025
Since from a passage in a Babylonian chronicle it appears that it was customary for Shamash on his festival to leave his temple, we may conclude that the garments were put on Shamash and his associates, for the solemn procession on the six days in question. The festivals in Nisan and Elul are distinctly of a solar character.
Indeed, it would appear that the Babylonians and Assyrians did not adopt precisely the same method of adjusting the calendar, since the Babylonians had two intercular months called Elul and Adar, whereas the Assyrians had only a single such month, called the second Adar.
A curious feature of this calendar was that, since it was the hope to make every day 'favorable, each day was called so, even when it is evident that it was not. For the 1st day of Elul the second, sacred to Anu and Bel, a favorable day.
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