Rekeh-who

Rekeh-wer ( Old and Middle Kingdom : Great Fire ) referred to the coldest season in the Egyptian calendar in which the stove had to be heated. From the predynastic period to the end of the Middle Kingdom, Rekeh-wer, originally the seventh month of the Sothis calendar, represented the period from early December to early January .

Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suspect that Rekeh-wer changed the form of the year in the course of calendar history, which is why Rekeh-wer shifted to the sixth month at the latest from the New Kingdom .

In the Ebers calendar around 1517 BC Rekeh-wer was on the first month of Peret and dated from December 16 to January 14 ( Elephantine ) and from December 21 to January 19 ( Memphis ).

Rekeh-who represented the rainiest month. For Alexandria the average amount is 56 mm (30% of the year). The associated rain- dean stars are mentioned in the Rekeh-wer decades 19 to 21. The name of the third month of Peret later changed to Phamenoth .

literature

Rolf Krauss : Sothis and moon data: studies on the astronomical and technical chronology of ancient Egypt , Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-8067-8086-X
Richard Anthony Parker : The calendars of ancient Egypt , Chicago Press, Chicago 1950
Heinz Schamp: Egypt: The old cultural land on the Nile on the way to the future - space, society, history, culture, economy - . Erdmann, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-7711-0263-4 , p. 26
Siegfried Schott : Ancient Egyptian Festival Dates , Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz / Wiesbaden 1950