Egyptian Religious Calendar Today 1 August 2019 - I day of Up-Renepet, the twelfth month of the Egyp

Egyptian Religious Calendar

Today 1 August 2019 - I day of Up-Renepet, the twelfth month of the Egyptian Lunar Calendar (in the CDXX Great Year of Ra according to the Egyptian Civil Calendar).

HELIACAL RISING OF SOTHIS: this morning the sacred star Sothis/Sirius has risen before the Sun in the horizon of the sacred city of Memphi(s), the “balance of the Two Lands” (the Heliacal Rising of Sothis occurs on 19 July of the Julian Calendar, which correponds to 1 August 2019 of the modern Gregorian Calendar). On this day Sothis, which is the heavenly form of the soul of the Goddess Isis, returns to be visible in the sky. The Heliacal Rising of Sothis announces the birthday of the God Ra-Harakhty.
We wish you all the best in this highly sacred day!!!
Furthermore, this year the Heliacal rising of Sothis falls on the New Moon that marks the beginning of ‘Up-Renepet’, that is, the last month of the Egyptian Lunar Calendar (and it is sacred to the God Ra-Harakhty), and this is a very favorable event.
Concerning the New Year of the Sothis-based Lunar Calendar, it will begin on the New Moon after the Heliacal Rising of Sothis, that is, August 30.
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Religious Prescriptions:
Favorable day

Religious Festivities:
The I day of the lunar month is sacred to Montu-Ra-Harakhty. It is the “Feast of Psedje(n)tyu/Feast of the New Moon”, and Thoth is the God of the Feast.

- “Birth of Ra-Harakhty (…).” [c.c.]

- “Feast of Ra.” [c.c.]

- “Neheb-Kau takes place on this day.” [c.c.]

- “Feast of Osiris.” [c.c.]

- “Feast of Isis.” [c.c.]

- “Festival of Khnum” (three-day festivity, I day)
[T. Thutmosis III, Elephantine]

- “Festival of Amon” (three-day festivity, I day)
[T. Thutmosis III, Elephantine]

- Feast of Sothis/Sirius:
“The coming out of Sothis in its day (…).”
[T. Ramses III]

- Feast of Horus.
[T. Behdet, small calendar]

- “Coming forth of the Sed-Feast of Ra (…).”
[T. Behdet, c. Horus]

- Feast of Ra (…).”
[T. Nitentóre]

- Feast of the Appearing (…)
[T. Ombos, west side]

- “Feast of the Appearing of Min.” (every New Moon day)
[T. Ombos, west side]

image: Temple of the Goddess Hathor at Nitentóre (Dendera):
the western staircase leading to the roof of the Temple.
On the wall at right, detail of the procession ascending to the roof of the Temple: priests carrying shrines;
on the wall at left, detail of the descending procession: priests carrying sacred standards