Holidays & Festivals
Gudsisu Festival
Mesopotamian Festivals
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The Gudsisu Festival was a Sumerian agricultural festival centred on the city of Nippur, marking the beginning of the plowing season and invoking divine sanction for the year's cultivation. It is known from temple administrative and ritual texts of the Ur III and Old Babylonian periods rather than from a single literary narrative, part of a wider Mesopotamian pattern in which most festivals besides the New Year Akitu are attested locally, city by city, in economic and ritual archives rather than as freestanding named compositions.
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Calendar SystemBabylonian (Mesopotamian lunisolar) 1 Its own record calls itself "part of a wider Mesopotamian pattern" alongside the New Year Akitu, matching Akitu Festival in this same fill. Fixed or MovableFixed date in its own calendar 1 Observance
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This source names Babylonians directly: "The Gudsisu Festival was a Sumerian agricultural festival centred on the city of Nippur, marking the beginning of the plowing season and invoking divine sanction for the year's cultivation."
This source names Mesopotamians directly: "The Gudsisu Festival was a Sumerian agricultural festival centred on the city of Nippur, marking the beginning of the plowing season and invoking divine sanction for the year's cultivation."
This source names Sumerians directly: "The Gudsisu Festival was a Sumerian agricultural festival centred on the city of Nippur, marking the beginning of the plowing season and invoking divine sanction for the year's cultivation."
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