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The Opet Festival (Ancient Egyptian: ḥb nfr n jpt, "beautiful festival of Opet") [citation needed] was an annual ancient Egyptian festival celebrated in Thebes (Luxor), especially in the New Kingdom and later periods, during the second month of the season of Akhet, the flooding of the Nile.
The annual festival was held at the New Moon of Month Two of the harvesting season Shemu. [5] This was the 10th month in a calendar of 12. [5] During Hatshepsut's reign she carried out both the Opet and The Beautiful Festival of the Valley to Amun. [6] There was a grand procession at the start of the festival which could go for several days. [7]
Ipy is an ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility. [1] She is also known as Opet. [2] At Karnak she is called Ipet, and in the Demotic Magical Papyrus, she is called Apet, the mother of fire. [3] [4] She is depicted as a hippopotamus. [1] Sometimes depicted as a combination of a hippo, crocodile, human, and lion. Usually she is depicted with a ...
However, other studies at the temple by the Epigraphic Survey team present a completely new interpretation of Luxor and its great annual festival (the Feast of Opet). [6] They have concluded that Luxor is the temple dedicated to the divine Egyptian ruler or, more precisely, to the cult of the Royal Ka. [6]
The good relationship of the Thebans with the central power in the North ended when the native Egyptian pharaohs were finally replaced by Greeks, led by Alexander the Great. He visited Thebes during a celebration of the Opet Festival. In spite of his welcoming visit, Thebes became a center for dissent.
Paopi (Coptic: Ⲡⲁⲱⲡⲉ, Paōpe), also known as Phaophi (Ancient Greek: Φαωφί, Phaōphí) and Babah [1] (Arabic: بابه, Baba), is the second month of the ancient Egyptian and Coptic calendars. It lasts between 11 October and 9 November of the Gregorian calendar, unless the previous Coptic year was a leap year.
Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival is being put on hiatus this year after five successful editions in what could be a precursor to the event being permanently scrapped or radically reshaped. In a ...
Alabaster sculpture of an Old Kingdom pharaoh, Pepi I Meryre, dressed to celebrate his Heb Sed, c. 2362 BCE, Brooklyn Museum. The Sed festival (ḥb-sd, conventional pronunciation / s ɛ d /; also known as Heb Sed or Feast of the Tail) was an ancient Egyptian ceremony that celebrated the continued rule of a pharaoh.