Egyptian Religious Calendar Today 25 July 2019 - XXIV day of Ipet-Hemet, the eleventh month of the E
Egyptian Religious Calendar Today 25 July 2019 - XXIV day of Ipet-Hemet, the eleventh month of the Egyptian Lunar Calendar (in the CDXX Great Year of Ra according to the Egyptian Civil Calendar).A reminder for the next days: the Epagomenal Days and the Heliacal Rising of Sothis/Sirius are approaching!August 1 2019 is the day of the Heliacal Rising of Sothis, and the five days preceding it (July 27-28-29-30-31 2019) are the Epagomenal Days dedicated to the celebrations for the birth of the Divine Sons of the Goddess Nut (Osiris, Horus the Ancient, Seth, Isis, and Nephthys). As regards the New Year of the Sothis-based Lunar Calendar, it will begin on the New Moon after the Heliacal Rising of Sothis, that is, August 30.For more informations, see my book “Egyptian Religious Calendar: CDXIX-CDXX Great Year of Ra (2019CE)”, where you will find the full version of the Egyptian Calendar with the complete translation of the Temples’ calendars:http://a.co/d/clZRHoW Furthermore, by subscribing to “AMENTE NOFRE-MEMBERSHIP COMMUNITY” you will get a complete access to the daily posts of the Ancient Egyptian Religious Calendar and to our online courses in Egyptology, here’s the link with all the infos: https://www.patreon.com/amentenofreReligious Prescriptions:Favorable dayReligious Festivities:The XXIV day of the lunar month is sacred to Nut. It is the “Feast of the Shadows” and the Little Naw is the God of the Feast- “Holiday in the Temple of Sokar, in the Estate of Ptah, and those who are in this Estate are in great festivity, being healthy.” [c.c.]image: detail from the chapel of Sokar in the “Great Temple” of King Sethi I at Abydos:“Ptah-Sokar Who resides in the Temple of ‘MenMaatRa’(King Sethi I)”, holding the combined 'Djed’-'Ankh’-'Uas’ scepter, and “Sekhmet the Great, beloved of Ptah” (lioness-headed, wearing the Solar disk with the Uraeus) -- source link
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