Akitu

The Anunnaki of Kingir observe the anniversary of the founding of their city with Akitu, a five day festival commemorating Creation. Parades reenacting the many precreation events they have recorded occur, with the first being the Divine Processional, when the gods emerged from the interactions of Apsu and Tiamat as beings of increasing power with Anu the Storm Bull, father of the gods last. The Divine Processional reflects concepts felt necessary to Creation, so represent entities of cosmic import and proportions incomprehensible to Man. These entities vary from city to city, sharing only an inexplicable otherness that makes them alien to current existance. The second day of Akitu focuses on Anu and the family of gods, with booths dedicated to various gods with any given city's god preeminent. Events of importance to precreation are reinacted, including the Court of Apsu where Creation is mocked and every ill facing the city extolled as a result of Creation, rival cities excoriated for their follies, and the Elders pilloried and pelted with rotting foodstuffs and the complaints of the populace. Every city exempts itself from the Court of Apsu as He would not have despised Reality so had it been part of it. The third day of Akitu is dedicated to Enki poisoning Apsu and burying him beneath the mound of Creation. The Elders spend this day sequestered to determine the offices of a city and projects to deal with the city's needs. The fourth day of Akitu is a pageant of the war with Tiamat, and the elevation of a divine executive, traditionally Enlil, but since the rape of Nippur, Pazuzu or the god of the city. A representative plays this part, and is annointed and conducts a massive parade at sundown of the gods who dismembered Tiamat and made the world from the remains. The final day of Akitu sees the General Assembly ratify the decisions of the Elders and announce laws, taxes, and offices for the year in a carnival atmosphere, ending when the Heirophant officially changes the year. Different cities celebrate at different times of the year, and each employs it's own value for that year's reckoning, depending on the year the city itself was founded.