zodiacal constellations with 12 members of our solar system in a long text identified by F Thoreau dangun as a temple program for the New Year Festival in Babylon the evidence for the consecration of 12 as the central celestial phenomenon is persuasive the Great Temple the s Aguila had 12 gates the powers of all the celestial gods were vested in Marduk by reciting 12 times the pronouncement my lord is he not my lord the mercy of the God was then invoked 12 times and that of his spouse 12 times the total of 24 was then