Babylonian religion

[3] Marduk became the first king within Tiamat's split body, which created the earth and sky, and founded Babylon.

[3] Tablet fragments from the Neo-Babylonian period describe a series of festival days celebrating the New Year.

The Festival began on the first day of the first Babylonian month, Nisannu, roughly corresponding to April/May in the Gregorian calendar.

This festival celebrated the re-creation of the Earth, drawing from the Marduk-centered creation story described in the Enûma Eliš.

[citation needed] The pillaging or destruction of idols was considered to be a loss of divine patronage; during the Neo-Babylonian period, the Chaldean prince Marduk-apla-iddina II fled into the southern marshes of Mesopotamia with the statues of Babylon's gods to save them from the armies of Sennacherib of Assyria.