CHALDEAN NATIONAL CALENDAR
5300
BS – PRESENT
According to legend, Romulus, the founder of
Rome, instituted the calendar in about 738 BC. This dating system was most
likely a product of development from the Greek lunar calendar, which was originally
derived from the Babylonians. However, the Roman actual calendar's date uses
January as the first month of the year does not go back more than a couple of
decades before the first century AD.
In fact, Julius Caesar is the one who
established the Roman calendar using January 1 as the beginning of the New Year
c. 46 BC. It is worth noting that January is derived from the two face god
Janus, believing that Janus symbolically looked towards the rear into the
previous year and ahead into the future.
[1]
How Do CHALDEANS Compute
Their NATIONAL CALENDAR?
One may ask, "How did
native Chaldeans calculate the actual date of the Proto-Kaldi calendar,
and what archaeological, Biblical, and scientific evidence would support this
conclusion?"
Due to ongoing
religious-ethnic persecution throughout the years, Chaldeans have abandoned but
did not forget about their Mesopotamian roots and costumes. However, since 2000
Chaldeans have internationally adopted the New Year Celebration/AKITU of
the first Chaldean Capital Eridu, founded around 5300 BC in the heart of
the Chaldean historical homeland, Mat-Kaldu, as the beginning of
Chaldean Babylonian history. This date was carefully studied and approved after
months of hard work and profound academic examination of a submitted study by
the author of this study to a professional committee of 12 scholars in the
fields of social studies, including a few well-known historians and
archeologists. The proposed research that was received in March 1999 asserts
beyond doubt that Chaldeans are the ancient Babylonians and the descendants of
the 1st Mesopotamian capital (city-state), Eridu. Among the
main proofs that support the process, as mentioned earlier, are the solid facts
below:
1- The city-states of ancient Iraq did not
have a temple with the same exact name, except for the god Marduḫ's Ésagila. The temple for ancient Mesopotamians was considered a living
being, and the living being cannot be separated or exist in two places at the
same time. However, the people who built Eridu and its suburb Ku-ara
are the same ones who built Babylon and its temple Ésagila, at the holy district
of Eridu, which simply means that both cities were considered one. In fact,
Eridu, the holy district in Babylon, was wisely chosen as a linking vein
that connects the two cities.
2-
According
to the Nam-Lugal list and Berossus' Chronicles, the Babyloniaca,
aka, Chaldeanica, Eridu and Babylon are the only cities in
ancient Mesopotamia that held the name NUNki. This fact easily links
both cities and their people's ethnic bond culture, especially when we learned
that one of the most celebrated names of Babylon was Shubat Balati (Land
of life). As it seems, this name was derived from the original name NUNKI (Homeland of life) that
was used to refer by Mesopotamians to both Babylon and Eridu.
3-
As
mentioned in the records of the Chaldean King Nabu-nasir/Nabonassar
747-734 BC, who admits to destroying most of the historical records of the
preceding Chaldean kings:
"Nabonassar collected together the records of deeds of kings before him and
destroyed them so that reckoning of Chaldean kings might start with himself."
0F[2] It is also fully documented that Sennacherib in 689 BC did
not only destroyed most of the Chaldeans records, burned libraries, and
demolished the temples, but he also destroyed the entire city of Babylon as was
recorded in his chronicles:
[Sennacherib avenged
himself on Babylon and dared to accomplish the unthinkable: he destroyed the
famous and sacred city, the second metropolis of the empire, the 'bond of
heaven and earth' which his forebears had always treated with infinite patience
and respect:
"As hurricane
proceeds, I attacked it and, like a storm, I overthrew, it . . . Its
inhabitants, young and old, l did not spare, and with their corpses, I filled
the streets of the city . . . The town itself and its houses, from their foundations
to their roofs I devastated, I destroyed, by fire I overthrew . . . So that in
future even the soil of its temples be forgotten, by water I ravaged it, I
turned it into pastures."][3]
4-
The
Bible confirms in more than one place the profound and rich history of the
Chaldeans, asserting that they are members of a mighty nation since very
ancient time /a long-lived nation, an ancient nation (Jer. 5:15, U.S. Catholic
Bible). However, the two main books of Genesis and Jeremiah, among other
biblical books, could quickly validate this fact.
5-
The
Greek and other classical historians highly valued the famous ancient
encyclopedia BABYLONIACA, a combination of well-recorded epics and the most
reliable old Mesopotamian records. The Babyloniaca asserts that a
Chaldean dynasty was the first to rule Mesopotamia since Proto-Deluge
time. It also confirmed that the first Mesopotamian king was the Chaldean
A-LU-LIM/Alorus, 10 sars. 2F [4]
Conclusion: In a court
of law, it is lawfully required that two witnesses ratify a testimony, and that
is what the Bible requires. However, It was brought to your attention not two
or three but five reliable references.
It could also add to the tens of linguistic proofs mentioned above and
other historical records that exist within the Mesopotamian literature. These
well-documented and solid pieces of evidence were covered in detail in my
published books since 1988 AD. Perhaps the most recent comprehensive book is The Untold Story of Native Iraqis, which
was instituted on foundations of more than 600 academic references. This book
is among the top resources concerning this subject.
Amer Hanna Fatuhi, Ph.D.
www.nativeiraqis-story.com | www.ChaldeanLegacy.com
[1] Janus; is the copycat character from the more ancient two-face god Isimud, who is a minor Mesopotamian god and the messenger “minister” of the god Enki.
[2] Oates, Joan, BABYLON, Thames & Hudson, revised ed. 1986 and reprinted 2000, P 113
[3] Roux, Georges:Ancient Iraq, Penguin books1992, PP. 322-323
[4] The Bodleian Manuscript of Jerome's Version of the Chronicle of Eusebius, Reproduced in Collotype / (p7) The kings of the Babylonians (according to Alexander Polyhistor)
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