Currently in a state of compiling notes!
Current festival list is “astronomically defined”, “festivals involving the Westerners”, and “festivals of creation” and my personal year-axis obsession.
| I Akhet | August 11 | (Tekh / Dhwt / Thoth) August 11: Wep Renpet August 27: Wag Festival Eve August 28: Wag Festival August 29: Great Festival of Djehwty August 30: Festival of Drunkenness |
|---|---|---|
| II Akhet | September 10 | (Menhet / Pa-en-Ipet / Phaophi) 19th day of lunar month: Opet Begins (if standardising to solar calendar, instead Opet begins 28 September) |
| III Akhet | October 10 | (Hwt-Hwr / Hwt-Hwr / Athyr) All Month Long: Great Festival of Hetharu Full Moon: Opet ends |
| IV Akhet | November 9 | (Ka-Her-Ka / Ka-Her-Ka / Choiak) November 28-December 8: Mysteries of Wesir November 28: Purifying the Pesedjet November 29: Mysteries: Opening the Aperture November 30: Mysteries: Hoeing the Earth December 1: Mysteries: Preparing a Way in the Sheteyet December 2: Mysteries: Placing in the Midst December 3: Mysteries: Ntryt December 4: Mysteries: Festival of Sokar December 5: Mysteries: Anointing the Ennead December 6: Mysteries: Drawing forth the Benben December 7: Mysteries Continue December 8: Mysteries: Raising the Djed |
| I Peret | December 9 | (Sef-bedet / Ta-‘b / Tybi) December 9: Coronation of Heru and Nehebkau Festival December Solstice: southern birthday of Ra |
| II Peret | January 8 | (Rekh-Wer / Mekhyr / Mechir) January 8: Ptah Lifts the Sky (for consideration; Cairo calendar) January 12: Raising the Djed / Shefbedet (for consideration) February 1: Feast of the Unseen Powers (Sokar and Wesir) (consider adding) February 2: The Dead are in Festival (consider adding) |
| III Peret | February 7 | (Rekh neds / Pa-en-Amunhotep-w / Phamenoth) February 11: Festival of the Lights of Nit |
| IV Peret | March 9* | (Renwet / Pa-en-renenet / Pharmouthi) On the New Moon: Feast of Zep Tepi On the second day of the moon: Birthday of Heru-Sa-Aset |
| I Shomu | April 8* | (Khonsu / Pa-en-Khonsu / Pachons) April 8: Harvest Festival of Min |
| II Shomu | May 8* | (Hent-Hetj / Pa-en-Inet / Payni) On the New Moon: Beautiful Festival of the Western Valley June 2: (Feast of the Beginning of the year, Revealing the Face; assoc. Nit/Sobek? check date math on this and everything marked ‘consider adding’) |
| III Shomu | June 7* | (Ipet-Hemet / Ipip / Epiphi) June Solstice: northern birthday of Ra |
| IV Shomu | July 7* | (Wep-Renpet / Mesw-r’ / Mesore) July 7: (conjunction/appulse of Sirius and the sun) Aset Luminous August 5: Closing of the Year |
| Days Upon the Year | August 6 | (In Leap Year: August 5: Calibration Festival of Seshat) August 6: Birthday of Wesir August 7: Birthday of Heru-Wr August 8: Birthday of Set August 9: Birthday of Aset August 10: Birthday of Nebet-het |
* In Leap Years festivals marked with an asterisk or falling in an asterisked month come one day earlier.
Pulled from earlier drafts:
(January 28-February 6: Growing the Plants of the Gods might be an amusing one to include given its timing overlap with usual Imbolc date? That one always caught my mind as a Thing even though I have no reason for the fondness. Only appears on Edfu Hathor; do research. Translates to harvest time in southern hemisphere?; celebrate culmination rather than initiation there? Alternate solution: make category of seasonal festivals to be celebrated at appropriate local times, include Plants of the Gods, Rekh-Wer, Rekh-the other one.)
From III Shomu: On the New Moon: Festival of First Fruits (does not translate to southern hemisphere, ponder that)
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