Vibrance looke by nira

 Happy new year 2023 The custom of celebrating the first day of the year as the New Year has been around for about four thousand years in human civilization. Today, New Year celebrations begin on the evening of December 31, the last day of the Gregorian calendar, known worldwide as New Year's Eve. The first records of New Year celebrations date back to the fourth millennium BC in what was then Babylon. That festival was celebrated by the Babylonians in spring, at the end of March, when day and night were of equal length at the equinoxes. They used to commemorate the day by organizing a magnificent religious festival called 'Akitu'. According to Babylonian mythology, the sky god Marduk defeated the sea nymph Tiamat in a bloody battle. The Akitu festival of the Babylonians was a festival commemorating that victory. This is what they celebrated as New Year. The political significance of the festival was no less. On this day the new Babylonian king was crowned, or the reign...