The Calendar of Esna (Iuniyac): a Calendar of Festivals

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THE CALENDAR OF ESNA (IUNIYAc): A CALENDAR OF FESTIVALS (Trans. Robyn Gillam after S. Sauneron, Esna III, V, Cairo: Institut Française d’Archéolgie Orientale 1962-8) FESTIVALS OF INNUNDATION (Ahkh) MONTH OF THOTH (Thoout) I Thoout: Festival of the Opening of the Year, doubly propitious; Festival of Nehkaw; of Khnum and his divine council. Shu finds the Eye of Horus in the hands of Set; he lifts it up..... Reading the tablet of “Attaining a Good Year,” performing all the rites according to what is in the ritual manual. Making appear in procession Khnum-Re, Lord of Iuniyac and his divine council; Pi-Khnum, Pi-Sahure, Union with the Disk, return. 4 Thoout: ........Festival of Thoth. 9 Thoout: Festival of Amun; festival of Re, corresponding to what the ancestors called “Festival of the Opening of the Year,” presenting cloth to Khnum and to his divine council of Pi-Khnum in the fields (i.e. the countryside). Prayer before his face. 10 Thoout: Good and bad. Festvial of Tefnu in Iuniyac (55,2). It is Re who was doing it(?) at the beginning. Making appear in procession Nebtu, Mistress of Iuniyac. Draping with a cloak of red cloth; appearing in the Upper Seat near (?) the children of Re; return; receiving the red cloth; making a solemn offering; making Isis appear in procession in Pi-Netcher; after placing an offering to her brother Osiris and at......Making appear in procession this same goddess at dusk. Return to Pi-Khnum. 12 Thoout: Making appear in procession this same goddess in Pi-Sahure; return to Iuniyac at dusk. 14 Thoout: Festvial of Tutu, son of Neith; provisioning of the altar of offerings. 19 Thoout: Festvial of Thoth, the greatest in the whole land; festival of Horus; Shu son on Re; entering to feed his father on this day; performing all the rites. 21 Thoout: Performing “The Triumph of the God Thoth”

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