The Assyrian calender is a lunar-based calender that begins in the year 4750 BC, marking the finishing of the first temple build by the Assyrians for the God Ashur. ^[1] The year begins with the first sight of Spring. The Assyrian New Year is still celebrated every year with festivals and gatherings. Currently (2006) it is the Assyrian year of 6756. Lunar may refer to: an adjective that means having to do with or pertaining to the Moon, or to moons in general. ... It has been suggested that Assyrian people be merged into this article or section. ... Ashur (אַשּׁוּר in Hebrew, ܐܫܘܪ in Assyrian), was the son of Shem, the son of Noah. ... Look up spring in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Akitu is the Assyrian New Year. ...

Months

In certain years, Assyrians would add an aditional 13th month (Ve-Adad) to even the calender. Enlil was the name of a chief deity in Babylonian religion, perhaps pronounced and sometimes rendered in translations as Ellil in later Akkadian. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Tammuz or Tamuz Arabic تمّوز Tammūz; Hebrew תַּמּוּז, Standard Hebrew Tammuz, Tiberian Hebrew Tammûz; Akkadian Duʾzu, Dūzu; Sumerian Dumuzi was the name of a Babylonian deity. ... Shamash or Sama, was the common Akkadian name of the sun-god in Babylonia and Assyria, corresponding to Sumerian Utu. ... Ishtar (Arabic: عشتار) is the Assyrian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddess Astarte. ... In Sumerian mythology and later for Assyrians and Babylonians, Anu (see also An) was a sky-god, the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, spirits and demons, and dwelt in the highest heavenly regions. ... Marduk [märdook] (Sumerian spelling in Akkadian AMAR.UTU solar calf; Biblical Merodach) was the name of a late generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon permanently became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi... The name Nergal (or Nirgal, Nirgali) refers to a deity in Babylonia with the main seat of his cult at Cuthah represented by the mound of Tell-Ibrahim. ...