Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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.

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