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AKITU - Ancient Babylon's Rathayatra Festival

Dr. Walter Sommerfeld of the University of Marburg, Germany is a leading scholar and expert on Ancient Sumerian and Babylonian cultures, history and religion. He has translated many ancient inscriptions from the region and has conducted numerous field excavations at sites in ancient Babylon and throughout Iraq. His expertise and experience investigating ancient Babylonian festivals and religions brought him to an insightful and consequential conclusion. “Something of a similar religious sentiment can still be found today in India. We can’t take part in religious Babylonian festivals anymore but at least there are a many great parallels in India that enable us to capture something of the atmosphere of that time.” Dr. Walter Sommerfeld of the University of Marburg, Germany is recognized world-wide for his research into ancient Sumerian and Babylonian religion, languages and history. In other words, according to Prof Sommerfeld, the world’s leading expert on ancient Babylonian religion, the best way to experience and accurately understand Ancient Babylonian religion and festivals, is to journey to Puri, Odisha, India during the annual Jagannath Rathayatra Festival. He concludes that either the Rathayatra festival originated in Babylon then spread to India or it is an ancient ongoing Indian Festival that was once an integral part of Sumerian and Babylonian religion. The Professor also lists many elemental parallels between Babylon’s Akitu Festival and India’s Rathayatra Festival. Source: Discovery Channel Documentary, The Babylon Mystery