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Mini Episode: Onion Festivities
The Religious Year (Parts 8-9): Onions for Bastet.
Months 8 and 9 were big on drinking and eating, with some strange rituals to go along with them. We meet Bastet (the cat) and Renen-utet (the snake), two goddesses who were friends to farmers. As the harvest season began, all looked towards the growth of the fields...
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Select Bibliography:
- Richard H. Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, 2003.
- Anthony J. Spalinger, “Ancient Egyptian Calendars,” in C.L.N. Ruggles (ed.) Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy, 2015.
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Published on 8 years, 3 months ago