Ka-her-ka

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Ka-her-ka in hieroglyphics
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Ka-her-ka
Kˁ-ḥr-kˁ
Ka from the Ka of Horus
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First month of the Peret period
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Heb-ka-ka-en-Hor
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Feast (of the procreation) of the Ka from the Ka of Horus /
month of Nehebkau

Ka-her-ka (also the month of Sekhmet ) referred to the month of sowing in the Egyptian calendar during the Old and Middle Kingdom and means the first time the seeds were planted in the fresh soil that emerged from the flood of the Nile . It was also the month of the Nehebkau festival .

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Monthly meaning

From the predynastic period to the end of the Middle Kingdom, Ka-her-ka, originally the fifth month of the Sothis calendar, represented the period from the beginning of October to the beginning of November .

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

In the Ebers calendar around 1517 BC Ka-her-ka was in the third month of Achet and dated from October 17 to November 15 ( Elephantine ) and from October 22 to November 20 ( Memphis ).

The name of the first Peret month later changed to Tybi .

Feast of the Conception of Horus

On the first day of the first month of the Peret period, the Egyptians celebrated the Horus Festival , during which the conception of Horus was celebrated. One day earlier, on the last day of the Achet period, the festival of the rebirth of Osiris took place. In Greco-Roman times , the Ptolemies named the 1st Tybi one of the most important holidays alongside the Isis festival .

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