It is essential to identify the people who participated in the processions, the divinities involved in the ceremonies and to analyse the deployment of the official religion in Babylonian society.

a) Identification of participants: It is essential to identify the people who, either as performers or spectators, participated in the processions within the cities or in the pilgrimages to a specific sacred place, and analyse their level of participation and the functions they performed. Such analysis would provide additional  evidence about the composition of hierarchies in temples and the tasks performed by different types of cultic participants.

b) Analyse the impact of the deployment of the official religion in Babylonian society and, consequently, its potential as a reinforcing element of social cohesion and cultural identity.

c) Study the divinities involved in the ceremonies, the religious centres from which they come, and the function they perform in processions and pilgrimages in order to establish the relationships between the different gods and goddesses that populated the Babylonian pantheon, thus gaining access to information that canonical compositions do not provide (i.e. those introduced in the scholastic curriculum, organized in series and deposited in libraries), such as the list of divinities An = Anum.

In the study of the participants (human and divine) in sacred movements, the gender perspective will be applied to re-evaluate the ceremonies, their performative aspects and their ideological function.