living in Ancient egypt- holidays and festivals

• Craftmen Deir el-Medina worked eight days out of every week of ten days.of there were also between 50 and 75 public festivals a year.


• such as hunting and fishing


• They might take their older sons with them to teach how to use a throwing- stick or fish.


• The same god could take different forms and have different name.He could also be shown as a child standing on a crocodile and surrounded by snake,scorpions and other dangerous animals.


• Festivals were held to honour the gods.


• Normally only priests were allowed to go inside temples at festival time,so the statues of gods were brought out.


• Some were carried on portable shrines,others floated in specially built boats.


• At various points in Eyptian cities and towns special stands were built and decorated.


• Before a big festival took place there would be days of preparation.


• Boys would help their fathers to build neighbourhood shrines,


• girls would help their mothers to decorate them with flowers and offerings of fruit,vegetables and lengths of home-made linen.


• In the great temple and royal festival,there were many local ones held atville and household shrines.


• Priests used a special calendar based on the phases of the moom.


• work out when festivals should be held.


• most followed the farmer's year.


• celebrations to mark the ploughing and sowing of the fields.