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40: Feasting, Laughing and Dancing
Interlude: How the Egyptians Celebrated. From beer halls to temples to cemeteries, this episode explores Egyptian revelry. We focus on two major festivals: the raucous celebrations for Hathor, and the sombre re-enactment of the Osiris story...
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- Music by Vangelis.
Select Bibliography:
- John C. Darnell, “The Opet Festival.” UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.
- LA Times interview with Prof. Betsy M. Bryan, Johns Hopkins University.
- E.F. Morris, “Sacred and Obscene Laughter in the Contendings of Horus and Seth,” in Egyptian Stories, 2007.
- Plutarch, Isis and Osiris (1st Century CE).
- The Ikher-nefret Stela (12th Dynasty).
- Additional Music by Vangelis – Alexander (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
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Published on 11 years ago