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[[File:Inanna shamash.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Figure 1. The Akitu festival as depicted in a cylinder seal. ]]
Every year, many of us make New Year resolutions and, predictably, many of these resolutions are often not kept. While this seems to us as an annual ritual, the history of New Year resolutions is ancient and, just like today, people in the distant past likely struggled with their resolutions. In fact, they created incentives for people to follow through with their resolutions by invoking the gods.
