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24/03/2022

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24/03/2022

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23/03/2022

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02/03/2022

Today 2 March 2022 - I day of Rekh-Nedjes, the seventh month of the Egyptian Lunar Calendar (in the CDXXII Great Year of Ra according to the Egyptian Civil Calendar).

Beginning of 'Rekh-Nedjes', "the Little Flame", the seventh month of the Egyptian Lunar Calendar. Best wishes to all!!!!

Religious Prescriptions:
Favorable day
“If you see anything, it will be good on this day.”

Religious Festivities:
The I day of the lunar month is sacred to Montu-Ra-Harakhty. It is the “Feast of Psedje(n)tyu/Feast of the New Moon” and Thoth is the God of the Feast.

- Feast of Chewing Onions for Bastet (...)
[T. Ramses III]

- “Feast of Horus Lord of Life.”
[T. Behdet, c. Hathor]

- “Feast of the Appearing of Min.” (every New Moon day)
[T. Ombos, west side]

(quotes from “Egyptian Religious Calendar: CDXXII-CDXXIII Great Year of Ra (2022CE)”.
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statuette of the Goddess Bastet as a cat-headed woman holding a sistrum, a basket, and a lioness-headed aegis;
ca. 600-300 BCE. Now in the Barakat collection...

06/01/2022

11/12/2021

Today 10 December 2021 - VII day of Khiak, the fourth month of the Egyptian Lunar Calendar (in the CDXXII Great Year of Ra according to the Egyptian Civil Calendar).

Religious Prescriptions:
Adverse day
(according to the B. pap. the morning is favorable)

Religious Festivities:
The VII day of the lunar month is sacred to Osiris. It is the “Feast of the Part-Day/Feast of the First-Quarter Day” and Qebehsenuef is the God of the Feast.

- “It is the day when Sekhmet transmits His (Ra's) words.” [S. pap.]

(quotes from “Egyptian Religious Calendar: CDXXI-CDXXII Great Year of Ra (2021CE)”.
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statues of the Goddess Sekhmet from the Precinct of the Goddess Mut at 'Uaset'-Thebes. Dated to the reign of King Amenhotep III (ca. 1390–1352 BCE).
Now in the British Museum...

14/11/2021

Statue of King Thutmose III

The gray schist statue represents Thutmose III as a great athletic warrior king. The “nine-bows,” which refer to the traditional foes of Egypt, are depicted below the king’s feet. According to the inscriptions on the base, this statue was part of a group of fine sculptures that decorated the rooms of the Festival Hall of Thutmose III (Akh-menu) at Karnak Temple Complex.

New Kingdom, mid-18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1458-1425 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 38234

https://egypt-museum.com/standing-statue-of-thutmose-iii/

04/11/2021

I am happy to announce you that I am working on the new edition of the EGYPTIAN RELIGIOUS CALENDAR for the next year 2022; the book will be available around the end of the current month, I'll keep you updated!
Furthermore, there are also two great news regarding the Egyptian Religious Calendar for the next year about which I will update you in the coming days.

And here's a detail from the front cover (images from the astronomical ceiling of the Outer Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of the Goddess Hathor at Nitentóre-Dendera):
(at left) the Sagittarius zodiac sign and (at right) the Goddess of the fourth hour of the night (represented as a woman with a star above Her head)

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24/10/2021

قناع مومياء.. القرن الأول الميلادى.. متحف بروكلين

22/10/2021

Today 21 October 2021 - XVI day of Menkhet, the second month of the Egyptian Lunar Calendar (in the CDXXII Great Year of Ra according to the Egyptian Civil Calendar).

Religious Prescriptions:
Favorable day

Religious Festivities:
The XVI day of the lunar month is sacred to Qebehsenuef. It is the “Feast of the Second Arrival” and Shed-kheru is the God of the Feast.

- “Raising Maat in order to see Ra (...).” [c.c.]

- “Feast of Hathor Lady of Nitentóre (...).” (thirty-day festivity, XXII day)
[T. Behdet. c. Hathor]

- “Feast of the appearing of Haroeris Lord of Ombos (...).” (thirty-day festivity, XXII day):
[T. Ombos, east side]

(quotes from “Egyptian Religious Calendar: CDXXI-CDXXII Great Year of Ra (2021CE)”.
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scene from the "House of Eternity" of Queen Nefertari, Valley of the Queens, QV66, west 'Uaset'-Thebes:
the Goddess Maat (wearing a red headband/diadem and the ostrich feather) kneeling and spreading Her wings in protection toward the cartouche of Queen "Nefertari Beloved of Mut"