Mini Episode: New Years Festivities

The Religious Year (Part 1): New Year.

Welcome to a new series detailing the Egyptians' religious year, the major events and the gods they celebrated. Month number one was called "Tekh," and it heralded several important rituals. There were festivals of the Nile Flood (Hapi), festivals of the blessed dead (Wagy-and-Thoth), and the beginning of a multi-month re-enactment of the legends of the god Osiris. The Egyptians got up to all kinds of shenanigans...

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Select Bibliography:

• Katherine Eaton, “Monthly Lunar Festivals in the Mortuary Realm,” 2011 (JSTOR).
• William C. Hayes, The Sceptre of Egypt, 1959.
• Antony Leahy, “The Osiris ‘Bed’ Reconsidered,” 1977 (JSTOR).
• William Kelly Simpson (editor), The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2003.
• Anthony Spalinger, “The Limitations of Formal Ancient Egyptian Religion,” 1998 (JSTOR).
• Richard H. Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, 2003.

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