… and a partridge in a pear tree?
Most of us recognize the song that starts, ‘On the first day of Christmas…,” but how many know the real origin of those famous twelve days?
Are they Christian?  Are they Pagan?
And, when do the twelve days start, anyway?  Do we celebrate the beginning of them, the conclusion, [...]

Babylon, which means “the Gate of God(s)”, was the capital of Babylonia, in southern Mesopotamia. Some claim that it was also the site of the Bible’s “Tower of Babel.”
Today, we most often associate Babylon with its leaders Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar, as well as the the Epic of Gilgamesh.
HAMMURABI
Babylon was the most important Middle Eastern city [...]