Amun Re festival

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Amun Re festival in hieroglyphics
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Heb-nefer-en-tepi-schemu-Amun-Re
ḥb-nfr-n-tpj-šmw-Jmn-Rˁ Beautiful festival of the first Schemu (on the new moon
festival) of Amun-Re

The Amun-Re festival has been in honor of the deity Amun-Re since the New Kingdom and lasted five days. It was one of the main annual festivals and was held in the Temple of Amun-Re in Karnak , to which the kings traveled and celebrated with the Egyptians.

background

Amun-Re Temple in Karnak

The god Amun-Re was considered to be the “breath of life for all things”, from the whispering breath to the storm, as the all-mover who gave life to everyone, the chick in the egg, the fish in the water, the predators, the people, the stars .

The common people worshiped him more directly in the unchanged ram form as the god of fertility. Against this mythological background, it was a matter of making appropriate sacrifices to Amun for the upcoming harvest.

Fixed dates

The Amun Re festival was one of the movable festivals, as it was linked to the civil Egyptian lunar calendar . The festival always began on the first new moon of the first month of the Shemu season and lasted until the fourth day after the new moon.

From the third interim period , the following fixed dates have been reliably identified and documented:

Amun Re festival dates
Surname Egyptian date Gregorian calendar Government year
Takelot II.
11. Schemu I
846 or 832 BC Chr.
 11th year
Petubastis I.
[26]. Schemu I
December 2, 828 BC Chr.
 7th year = 14th year Scheschonq III.
Petubastis I.
16. Schemu I
November 22nd, 827 BC Chr.
 8th year = 15th year Scheschonq III.
Scheschonq III.
26. Schemu I
November 26, 803 BC Chr.
 39th year = lunar dates 7th year Petubastis I.
Shebitko
5. Schemu I
7th-8th October 701 BC Chr.
 3rd year
Psammetich I.
12. Schemu I
23–24 September 610 BC Chr.
 Last year of reign

See also

literature

  • Hans Bonnet: Lexicon of the Egyptian religious history . Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 (former title: "Reallexikon der Ägyptischen Religionsgeschichte").
  • Rolf Krauss : Sothis and moon dates. Studies on the astronomical and technical chronology of ancient Egypt (= Hildesheimer Egyptological contributions. (HÄB). Volume 20). Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-8067-8086-X .
  • Jean Meeus , Denis Savoie: The history of the tropical year. In: The journal of the British Astronomical Association. Volume 102, No. 1, 1992 ( bibcode : 1992JBAA..102 ... 40M ).
  • Richard-Anthony Parker: The calendars of ancient Egypt . Chicago Press, Chicago IL 1950.
  • Siegfried Schott: Ancient Egyptian festival dates. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz / Wiesbaden 1950.