#akitu — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #akitu, aggregated by home.social.
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#Kurdish nationalists have their own version of the calendar, which dates from the Battle of Nineveh in 1234 BH; this one has a lot of sociopolitical baggage, and I am indebted to the brilliant @darlingofinana for linking me to this thread by Max Joseph, originally posted on the site formerly known as Twitter, which also goes into the influence and #Akitu on #Nowruz: https://web.archive.org/web/20190326160222/https://twitter.com/DeadmanMax/status/976185221593870337
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But before that, there was and is #Akitu, the #Assyrian and #Babylonian equinox celebration (which also seems to have a counterpart in #Sumer). Modern #Assyrians celebrate Akitu on 1 April to coïncide with the beginning of a Gregorian month, but in ancient times, it was on the day of the actual equinox. My understanding is that the civil year officially began on the day of the new moon close to the equinox, but I might be wrong about that.
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