The Religious Festivals in Ancient Egypt

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Tourist Guidance, Sinai Institute for specific studies (El Arish) Egypt

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This research focus on the rituals and participation of the commons in the ancient Egyptian festivals as the pharaonic religion had huge presence of festivals which shown on the calendars of the ancient Egyptian temples. These festivals were an occasion for commoners to get closer to their gods through the priests there were banquets, weddings and markets held during these cerebrations documented on the walls of the ancient Egyptian temples as festival of New Year followed by festivals of Osiris, Horus-the-Elder, Set, Isis and Nephthys, which followed twelve days later by the feast of Wagy. 

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