The Twin Temples The temple of Merodach at E-Sagila and that of Nabu at E-Zida were inseparably associated, for a visit to one practically necessitated a visit to both.
E-Sagila The temple of E-Sagila, which was dedicated to Merodach, patron deity of Babylon, is of course by far the most important within the city bounds.
But on another occasion he aroused the hostility of the god and incidentally of the priests of E-Sagila by preferring the sun-god to the great Bel of Babylon.
Next Marduk assigns seats to the Seven Gods of Fate and to Enlil and Anu, and then he lays up in E-Sagila the famous bow which he bore during his fight against Tiâmat.
The Anunnaki themselves made the bricks, and they built the great temple of E-Sagila at Babylon.
The famous ziggurat of E-Sagila here mentioned was built in Seven Stages or Steps, each probably having its own distinctive colour.
For it is obvious that the disaster to the city and to E-sagila was not an invention, and must, on the contrary, have been of some magnitude for its record to have been preserved in Babylon itself through later generations.
Merodach, and made E-sagila (the great temple of Belus at Babylon) to shine like the stars of heaven.
E-sagila and the shrines, was not being made, and a (lunar ?
Enlarges temples of E-zida and E-sagila in Borsippa.
The influence of E-Sagila and E-Zida was not affected by such a shifting of the political kaleidoscope.
The visit of Nabu marked the homage of the gods to Marduk; and Nabu set the example for other gods, who were all supposed to assemble in E-Sagila during the great festival.
He calls Marduk the lord of E-Sagila and of E-Zida; he speaks of Borsippa as the beloved city of Marduk, just as though it were Babylon.
The thought of E-Sagila and E-Zida must have stored up emotions in the breast of a Babylonian and Assyrian, that can only be compared to a pious Mohammedan's enthusiasm for Mecca, or the longing of an ardent Hebrew for Jerusalem.
The ideas that were thus attached to the papakhu in E-Sagila are a valuable indication of the sanctity attached to that part of the temple where the god sat enthroned.
From E-sagila he crosses over to Borsippa, and pays homage to Nabu and to Nabu's consort, whom he calls Nanâ.
It is likely that the extent of E-Sagila at Babylon was even greater.
In E-Sagila the installation of the rulers over Babylonia took place, and a visit to Marduk's temple was incomplete without a pilgrimage across the river to E-Zida.
On the other hand, in a temple like E-Sagila the classes and subclasses must have been very numerous.
E-sagila must have presented the appearance of a little city of itself, shut off from the rest of the town by a wall which invariably enclosed the sacred quarter.
No doubt the priestly party at E-sagila were deeply concerned in the movement, and the king may have been strongly influenced by the fact that Babylonia was at the time suffering from severe depression caused by a series of poor harvests.
According to Herodotus, Darius plotted to carry away from E-sagila a great statue of Bel "twelve cubits high and entirely of solid gold".
E-sagila was robbed of its treasures, images of deities were either broken in pieces or sent to Nineveh: the statue of Bel-Merodach was dispatched to Asshur so that he might take his place among the gods who were vassals of Ashur.
Attacks had been delivered on Babylon, and the city and its great temple E-sagila were flooded.
Images of these beings were probably kept in the temple of Ê-sagila at Babylon.
Finally, the sacred way from E-sagila to the palace mound has been traced and uncovered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sagila" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
