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1. Marduk

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   Marduk's principal cult center was the Esagila ("The House Whose Top is Lofty"), located within Babylon, adjacent to the Etemenanki ziggurat (often conflated with the Tower of Babel narratives). The Esagila housed the cult statue of Marduk, which was believed to contain the god's essence.
   The religious year culminated in the Akitu Festival (New Year Festival), an eleven-day observance detailed extensively in Neo-Babylonian admini…