Ka-her-ka (New Kingdom)

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Ka-her-ka in hieroglyphics
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Ka-her-ka
K3-Ḥr-k3
(The month) of the Kas of Horus
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4-nu-achet
4-nw-aḫt
Fourth month of the period Achet

Ka-her-ka ( Greek Choiak ; Coptic Koiak ; Arabic كيهك, DMG Kiyahk ) was the month of Sekhmet in the Egyptian calendar, the ancient Egyptian name of the fourth month of the season Achet in the Egyptian calendar and represented the time from the beginning of October to the beginning of November .

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Monthly meaning

Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suspect that the month Ka-her-ka changed the year form in the course of calendar history, which is why Ka-her-ka changed from the fifth to the fifth as Ka-her-ka in the New Kingdom from the 19th Dynasty onwards fourth month postponed.

The reason for this was the link between Sopdet and the heliacal rise of Sirius , which lasted until the end of the second millennium BC. Chr. Slowly migrated from the beginning of June to the beginning of July and was ultimately responsible for the shifting of the months.

Feast of the Isis Rites

In the Greco-Roman period , the festival of finding the lower leg of Osiris was celebrated on the 27th Choiak (23 November greg. Since Augustus ) . On this day Osiris created the deity Nemti in the form of a maggot made of silver, which is attached to the head of a cow .

On the first day of the month of Ta-abet , the Egyptians celebrated the Horus festival , during which the conception of Horus was celebrated. One day before, on the 30th Ka-her-ka, the festival of the rebirth of Osiris took place, the resurrection of which on the evening of the 29th Ka-her-ka was solemnly opened in all temples with the “entering of the holy boat of Osiris ” ended with the first rays of the sun of the 1st Ta-abet.

In Greco-Roman times, the 29th Ka-her-ka was added as a Kikellia festival in the course of the Osiris Mysteries . For the Ptolemies , the celebrations in the context of the Osiris Mysteries were the most important holidays.

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