Egyptian Religious Calendar 2024: 424th-425th Great Year of Ra

The Complete Egyptian Religious Calendar for the year 2024: the most comprehensive publication of the lists of the festivities of the Egyptian Religious Tradition (dated for the year 2024). A practical application of the Egyptian Religious Calendar for the current age.

What’s new in this edition:

In this edition you will find, for the first time, the list of the Chronokratores and the Presiding Deities of the days of the year from the top frieze of the Outer Vestibule, also known as the Offering Hall, of the Temple of Horus at Edfu.

Preface
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
Favorable and adverse days
Sources
Egyptian Religious Calendar for the year 2024
Notes
Bibliography

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

— Egyptian Religious Calendar 2024: 424th-425th Great Year of Ra, by Luigi Tripani