How did the ancient Palmyrians consecrate on the 6th of April of each year the feast of the good

Palmyra-Sana

The month of April had a special place among the ancient Palmyrians in their religious concepts and ritual celebrations, being the beginning of the spring season and renewing life, as these celebrations began on the first of April to reach their climax on the sixth day of it, in which a temple was established and devoted, but the most important and largest ancient temples in the ancient East.

The archaeological expert, Muhammad Khaled Asaad, told the SANA reporter that the religious writing in the Greek language inscribed inside the temple's temple describes the sixth of April as a good day, as the ritualistic celebrations of religion start from the beginning of April coinciding with the influx of tens of thousands of delegations of pilgrims and worshipers from all sides. To the courtyard of the Temple of Bel Raheiba decorated with columns, crowns and gilded gates.

Regarding the rituals of this day, the happiest showed that everyone wore the finest clothes and perfumes, and women were adorned with the most beautiful jewelry, and vendors gathered everywhere, and hundreds of priests were preparing to wear their caps adorned with laurel wreaths to wear their white dress embroidered in bright colors and crowned with precious stones while they were carrying incense and jugs of fragrant oil for everyone to witness the coming of Battleships of cattle to be slaughtered and offered as offerings, sacrifices, and vows to the gods.

After these celebrations reach their climax on April 6, the main ritual of Eid begins, according to Asaad, through circling around the temple temple, which inflames the enthusiasm of the worshipers in the place, and these religious rituals remained common and well-known until the emergence of Islam.

Adnan Al-Khatib