Crossword-Solution: ESAGILA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The Tower of Babel was possibly the Esagila of the inscriptions, or the E-Temenanki--a tower not yet identified.

The myth of the solstices runs as follows: “In the month Tammuz, 11th day, when the deities Miniṭṭi and Kaṭuna, daughters of Esagila,(504) go unto Ezida(505) and in the month Kislev, 3d day, when the deities Gazbaba and Kazalsurra, daughters of Ezida, go unto Esagila—Why do they go? In the month Tammuz the nights are short.

Esagila is the house of day.” The tablet then explains the Sumerian ideogram _gubarra_=Ašrat, the western mother goddess Ashtarte, and says that Ašrat of Ezida is poverty stricken.(506) But Ašrat of Esagila is full of light and mighty.(507) Some mystic connection between Ašrat or Geštinanna, mistress of letters and astrology,(508) scribe of the lower world, and the daughters of night and day existed.

Note also the Smith Esagila tablet published by SCHEIL, _Memoires de l’Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres XXXIX_, Rev.

Sin-Gashid, of the dynasty of Uruk, mentions a temple built for the god and his consort, as “the seat of their joy.” At Babylon, the “mother of great gods” dwelt within the precincts of the temple on the east side of the Euphrates known as Esagila, “the lofty house.” When the city of Babylon extended as far as to include Borsippa, the temple known as Ezida, “the true house,” was built for Marduk=Bel.