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.
