The Ésagila, a Sumerian name signifying "É (temple) whose top's lofty", (literally: "house of the raised head") was a temple dedicated to Marduk, the protector god of Babylon. It lay south of the ziggurat Etemenanki, a memory of which has been perpetuated in Judeo-Christian culture as the Tower of Babel. In this temple was the cult image inhabited by Marduk, surrounded by cult images of the cities that'd fallen under the hegemony of the Babylonian Empire from the 18th century BC; ther… (More on Esagila)