Festivals - Egypt Museum

Festivals - Egypt Museum

For the Ancient Egyptians, cyclical time was sacred. The daily rise and fall of the sun, the monthly phases of the moon, the annual flood of the Nile; all were manifestations of divine order. Festivals weren’t simply commemorations, they were re-enactments and activations of the eternal cycles that bound gods and nature together. Even when festivals were dedicated to specific deities, they were often timed to coincide with natural phenomena. A l…