Decade (ancient egypt)
In ancient Egypt, the term decade referred to the monthly weeks ( deans ), which consisted of ten days. There were three weeks per month and thus three Dean start dates; the 1st, 11th and 21st day. The Egyptian year comprised 36 dean weeks with 360 days plus five days of the season Heriu-renpet .
The decades are also the subject of the Nutbuch , which contains, among other things, the description of the state of the seven invisible dean stars that have been in the underworld for seventy days . With every heliacal ascent at the beginning of a decade there was a festival of the decade.
Excerpts from the Sethos scriptures (lines 112 to 115) Excerpts from the PC1 / PC1a version (lines 112 to 115) 112 It happens that one (star) dies
112 and another lives at the beginning of a decade.
113 These are the heads of the gods.
114 This is your rising party.
115 The head of one (God) is now shown to the others.
112 The downfall of one takes place,
112 and another rises from them every 10 days.
113 These are the rising of the gods.
114 That means: the celebration of her first ascent
114 that one will do. When it rises in the east,
114 one usually celebrates a festival.
115 The rise of one star below them when another sets.
See also
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Dekane , in: Lexikon der ägyptischen Religionsgeschichte , Hamburg 2000 ISBN 3-937872-08-6 pp. 153–155.
- Richard-Anthony Parker : The calendars of ancient Egypt , Chicago Press, Chicago 1950
- Siegfried Schott : Ancient Egyptian Festival Dates , Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz / Wiesbaden 1950
- Alexandra von Lieven : Floor plan of the course of the stars - the so-called groove book . The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies (among others), Copenhagen 2007, ISBN 978-87-635-0406-5