Egyptian Religious Calendar 2023

The Complete Egyptian Religious Calendar for the year 2023: the most comprehensive publication of the lists of the festivities of the Egyptian Religious Tradition (dated for the year 2023). A practical application of the Egyptian Religious Calendar for the current age.

The civil year was divided into three seasons, commonly translated: Inundation, when the Nile overflowed the agricultural land; Going Forth, the time of planting when the Nile returned to its bed; and Deficiency, the time of low water and harvest.

The Egyptian calendar was based of a year of 365 days, with twelve months and three seasons. Each month had three ten-day weeks, for a total of 30 days. The last five days of the year corresponded to the birthdays of five deities: Osiris, Isis, Horus, Seth and Nephthys.

The sources used to reconstruct the Egyptian Religious Calendar and for the dating of the sacred festivities are:

– the “Cairo Calendar n. 86637”
– the “Sallier papyrus IV”
– the “Budge papyrus”
– the list of the religious celebrations dated to the Middle Kingdom;
and the lists of the sacred festivities from the Temples’ religious calendars:
– the religious calendar of King Thutmosis III from Ipet-Sut-Karnak
– the Temple of King Thutmosis III at Elephantine
– the Temple of King Ramses II at Abydos
– the Temple of Millions of Years of King Ramses III at West Uaset-Thebes (“Medinet Habu”)
– the Temple of Horus at Edfu
– the Temple of Hathor at Dendera
– the Double Temple of Haroeris and Sobek at Ombos (“Kom Ombo”)
– the Temple of Neith and Khnum at Esna.

What’s new in this edition:

in this edition you will find, for the first time, the names of the Deities of the days of the lunar month and the names of the days of the lunar month from fifteen different sources:

-one list from the Chapel adjoining the Temple of Khonsu at Ipet-sut-Karnak
-two lists from the Monumental Gate of the Temple of Khonsu at Ipet-sut-Karnak
-two lists from the Temple of Khonsu at Ipet-sut-Karnak
-three lists from the Temple of Horus at Edfu
-two lists from the Opet Temple at Ipet-sut-Karnak
-four lists from the Temple of Hathor at Dendera
-one list from the Temple of Neith and Khnum at Esna.

Contents:

-the Egyptian Religious Calendar:
-the Calendars of Ancient Egypt
-the Civil Calendar
-the presiding Deities and the Chronokratores of the days of the year
-the Sothis-based Lunar Calendar
-the lunar months
-the Deities of the days of the lunar month, the names of the days of the lunar month, and their presiding -Deities
-Sources
-Favorable and adverse days

— Egyptian Religious Calendar: 423rd-424th Great Year of Ra (2023 CE), by Luigi Tripani