Mini Episode: Banquet Festivities

The Religious Year (Part 5): Worshipping Snakes and Cats.

The fifth month was an interesting one, involving worship of snakes, and cats sailing down the Nile. Major gods of this month include Neheb-Kau, Bastet, Shesmet-et, Wadjet and Mut. We meet a few of these strange deities and see why snakes and cats went hand-in-hand...

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Select Bibliography:

• Richard H. Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, 2003.
• Anthony Spalinger, “Ancient Egyptian Calendars,” in C.L.N. Ruggles (ed.),  Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy, 2015.
• Alan W. Shorter, “The God Nehebkau,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (1935).

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