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The Complete Egyptian Religious Calendar for the year 2018: the most comprehensive publication of the lists of the festivities of the Egyptian Religious Tradition (dated for the year 2018). A practical application of the Egyptian Religious Calendar for the current age.

The sources used to reconstruct the Religious Calendar and for the dating of the Sacred Festivities are:

– the “Cairo Calendar n. 86637”; -the “Sallier papyrus IV”; – the “Budge papyrus”; – the list of the religious celebrations dated to the Middle Kingdom; and the lists of the Sacred Festivals from the Temples’ Religious Calendars: – the religious calendar of King Thutmosis III from Ipet-Sut (the Precinct of Amon-Ra at Uaset-Thebes, “Karnak”); – the Temple of King Thutmosis III at Elephantine; – the Temple of King Ramses II at Abydos; – the Temple of Millions of Years of King Ramses III, West Uaset (“Medinet Habu”); – the Temple of Horus at Behdet (“Edfu”) – the Temple of Hathor at Nitentòre (Dendera); – the Double Temple of Haroeris and Sobek at Ombos (“Kom Ombo”); – the Temple of Neith and Khnum at Iunyt (“Esna”). Contents: -Preface -the Egyptian Religious Calendar: the Calendars of Ancient Egypt; the Civil Calendar; the Sothis-based Lunar Calendar, the Lunar Months, the Feasts of the Lunar days, their presiding Deities, and the Gods of the Lunar days; Sources; Favorable and adverse days -Egyptian Religious Calendar, List of the Festivities for the year 2018, CDXVIII-CDXIX Great Year of Ra.

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