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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter II THE FESTIVAL AND THE PROMISE NEVER within the memory of living man had the celebration of the New Year festival of Zagmuku been so fervent, and the joys of its accompanying- Merrymaking of Merodach more unalloyed. The return of the divine Istar, with her lover Tammuz, after his dreary imprisonment in the under-world, gave new vitality to the languishing earth, and all animate things throbbed with revirescent ecstacy. Buds and blossoms burst their cerements and filled the land with beauty and fragrance and tenderness. The gods came forth amid clouds of incense, and their tables were heaped with offerings. King Nabopalassar opened his palace and gave gifts. He issued proclamations of immunity, and his subjects went in and saluted him. Like careless children they pelted one another with flowers and abandoned themselves to the enjoyments of the softly whispering groves. Bel, the prince of the gods, descended from his seat in the midst of the temple tower and turned his face to the worshipping votaries upon whom he showered his benefits; and his temple treasuries, even the secret chambers, were running over with tribute. Nor were his favours to be limited. The oracles that raised their cry at dawn announced an era of unprecedented prosperity for the Babylonians. Except on Sabbaths and other holy days, the hum of looms and the cheerful echoes of traffic were heard continuously, and in all broad Kar- Dunyas no man had need to ask for bread. In this, the nineteenth year of his reign, on the first Nisan, the royal astronomer informed Nabopalassar the king that before day and night again were equal theonly cloud on the national horizon would be dispelled. For two years the Babylonian and Median armies had kept the degenerate lion of the north penned within the walls ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459042803
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459042808
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 245 gr


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