Festivals of Snakes & Cats
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The Religious Year (Part 5): Worshipping Snakes and Cats.
The fifth month was an interesting one, involving worship of snakes, and cats sailing down the Nile. Major gods of this month include Neheb-Kau, Bastet, Shesmet-et, Wadjet and Mut. We meet a few of these strange deities and see why snakes and cats went hand-in-hand...
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The Religious Year (Part 5): Worshipping Snakes and Cats.
The fifth month was an interesting one, involving worship of snakes, and cats sailing down the Nile. Major gods of this month include Neheb-Kau, Bastet, Shesmet-et, Wadjet and Mut. We meet a few of these strange deities and see why snakes and cats went hand-in-hand...
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Select Bibliography:
Richard H. Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, 2003.
Anthony Spalinger, “Ancient Egyptian Calendars,” in C.L.N. Ruggles (ed.), Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy, 2015.
Alan W. Shorter, “The God Nehebkau,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (1935).
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