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  Тенгиз Гудава. До и после Библии. Глава 17: После Библии  The Historical Nabu and the Fall of Babylon  =Nabu “But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” (Gospel of John) The name of the god Nabu is intimately linked with the rise of the New Babylon — the Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean Empire in the 7th century BCE. The dominant Assyrian power in Asia was weakening, and ancient Babylonia, long subject to it, once again — a thousand years later — became the leading political force under king Nabopolassar, who ascended the throne in 625 BCE. If Old (post-Sumerian) Babylon was a mixture of Sumerians and western Amorite tribes, the New Babylon was a mixture of old Babylonians and the western Chaldean tribe. Nabopolassar (Nabu-apla-usur) himself came from Chaldean nobility. Already under this king begins the restoration of the name of the god Nabu — son of Mardu...