Using tools of social anthropology, this book describes the ancient Babylonian akntu, or New Year festival. It reconstructs the festival and its customs.

Editing and examining source-critically for the first time the Late Babylonian ritual texts dealing with the New Year Festival, this book proposes an incisive re-interpretation of the most frequently discussed of all Mesopotamian rituals.

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION The 3rd Edition of an original underground classic revealing amazing insight into the religious and spiritual reality of the ancient Babylonians, described on cuneiform clay tablets unearthed in the Middle East. Newly recommissioned as a pocket edition (for the first time ever!) by prolific writer, Joshua Free, to match the design of its celebrated companion "The Book of Marduk by Nabu: Pocket Anunnaki Devotional Companion of the Mardukites" (also available). The Book of Zagmuk (by Nabu) is a specially prepared ceremonial text with selected 'tablet collections' combining materials from the original Mardukite handbook "Wizards of the Wastelands" (2011) in conjunction with critical excerpts from Joshua Free's "Necronomicon Anunnaki Bible" and essentially comprising the internal methods of the 'Order of Nabu' to establish Mardukite 'religious' continuity and Marduk's royal legitimacy at the height of the Babylonian pantheon using the Babylonian New Year Festival, Akitu (Akiti) or Zagmuk, reviving the same process used by ancient priests of the Sumerian Anunnaki in Mesopotamia! The Book of Zagmuk by Nabu is the 'official' Mardukite-Anunnaki companion to the ancient Babylonian New Year Festival, known as Akitu (Akiti) or Zagmuk, originally available exclusively to the modern revival organization known as the Mardukite Chamberlains and now released to the public in a special and economical pocket edition -- the perfect supplement to the pocket 'Book of Marduk'!

Originally published: Locust Valley, N.Y.: J. J. Augustin, 1975.