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Counting from the new moon, the Babylonians celebrated the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th as "holy-days." On these days, officials were prohibited from various activities and common men were forbidden to "make a wish." On each of them, offerings were made to a different god and goddess. Tablets from the 6th-century BCE reigns of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses indicate these dates were sometimes approximate. The lunation of 29 or 30 days basically contained three seven-day weeks, and a final week of nine or ten days inclusive, breaking the continuous seven-day cycle. | Counting from the new moon, the Babylonians celebrated the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th as "holy-days." On these days, officials were prohibited from various activities and common men were forbidden to "make a wish." On each of them, offerings were made to a different god and goddess. Tablets from the 6th-century BCE reigns of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses indicate these dates were sometimes approximate. The lunation of 29 or 30 days basically contained three seven-day weeks, and a final week of nine or ten days inclusive, breaking the continuous seven-day cycle. | ||
According to the ''[[Zohar]]'', the [[demon]]ic entities associated with the [[qlippoth]] have free reign on the nights of the New Moons, the exception being when these coincide with a Sabbath day (a relatively rare event). On these days, their power disappears completely. | |||
==Pagan traditions== | ==Pagan traditions== | ||