Egyptian Religious Calendar 2025

The Complete Egyptian Religious Calendar for the year 2025: the most comprehensive publication of the lists of the festivities of the Egyptian Religious Tradition (dated for the year 2025). A practical application of the Egyptian Religious Calendar for the current age.

In this edition you will find, for the first time, the list of the daily Hathor-Goddesses from the architraves of the First Hypostyle Hall, also known as the Outer Hypostyle Hall, of the Temple of Horus at Edfu.
Moreover, I have completely revised the notes, adding in particular geographical information on all places mentioned, and on their Egyptian pronunciation preserved in Coptic: while in the previous edition there were just over forty notes, now they are more than three hundred.

Egyptian Religious Calendar 2025
Egyptian Religious Calendar 2025

Contents:

  • 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, and the daily Hathor-Goddesses
    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 2025
  • Bibliography
  • Abbreviations and notes

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 2025: 425th-426th year of the Great Year of Ra, by Luigi Tripani