The Festival of The Pharaohs
This is an article post about the great pharaoh Seti I and his Heb Sed Festival. It connects this article to
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- The articles above deal with those pharaohs Heb Sed celebration.They give you the basic details so fare known behind this peculiar festival.
- This article investigates some interesting points about the images used for the festival themselves.
- Analyzing The Heb Sed Festival ScenesThe Festival of The Pharaohs
- The Astronomical Connections.
- The Festival of The Pharaohs The Heb Sed Festival.
- Could it be something different that the Heb Sed Festival?
- They Did Nothing Unintentionally.
- The Heb Sed Festivals.
- Astronomical Connection.Analyzing The Heb Sed Festival ScenesAgain, I think Sety I temple at Abydos offers more clarification upon this mysterious festival, so I will use the pictures I took at the temple.I am of the belief that it is NOT a 30 year festival as the scholars have decided upon.I suspect this ritual festival has more to do with some Astronomical Relationship between Earths Seasons.The Astronomical ConnectionNow, I am well aware of how this must sound to the scholar’s mind.So please do bear with me, as I venture into yet another unexplored path among the old.I do not say that I am right, but I will prove my point with more than my own words or theories.I will use what we know, and draw attention to the smaller details that people just pass by.
The deeper that I dig into these ritual scenes, the more you might be unfamiliar with them, but the scholar would know what I am talking about.
Again you must remember everything is not known yet, far from it…
THE FESTIVAL OF THE PHARAOHS THE Heb Sed Festival
They accept it among scholars that this scene is called the Hed-Sed festival.
Yet there is so much evidence that points in another direction.
So the question would logical be (if one wanted to explore the thought even more).
Could it be something different that what we perceive the Heb-Sed festival to be?
– I suspect that the answer to this is Yes 🙂
Could it be Something Different than the Heb Sed Festival?
As I pointed out in the other posts which are referenced to at the beginning of this post.
A scholar Egyptologist thought me in what the Heb-Sed festival was thought to be about, yet their perception seemed very off to me.
Again, I will not go into describing the celebration of the festival in this post, because I have already done so before.
Here I will show you how my mind works, and what I see, which does not follow the scholar books.
The first thing that I noticed was both the differences in the scenes of one pharaoh (it could be Ramesses II or Seti I, like other ritualistic images they follow a standard.
And unknown standard, yet you still see some common denominators among the scenes).
Another thing worth pointing out is that the ancient Egyptians were masters of not only numerology but also the dual images.
By this I mean, there is this duality which goes harmonies through everything that they did, I talk more about this in my book “The Secret of Anubis, The Winter Triangle”
They did Nothing unintentionally !
The first thing that I notice with the festival scene, was the scorpion Goddess.
You might think that I am referring to the smaller lady figure with her arms stretched out, but I am not talking about her, thou I think she too, is very important.
The Scorpion Goddess
No, I am talking about one specific figure on the other side of the pharaoh, I have drawn it with white inside the red box-thing.
That symbol is normally used for the Scorpion Goddess, who is also portrayed in their astronomical charts, which are found at either their tombs or their Death Temples.
The Scorpion goddess is the constellation of the Scorpion, they prove this in many ancient tombs.
Beneath the Scorpion goddess you have the symbol of “Horizon”?.. Interesting considering…
It is also very clear that, as the scholars also say, it is a ritual about the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, under one pharaoh (king).
The ancient Egyptians illustrated this through different symbols, such as the Pharaohs crowns on each scene, and the ladies that stand in front of the pharaoh.
The ladies that have their hands stretched out.
Is on one scene a representation of the goddess of Upper Egypt, and in the other scene, she represents the goddess of Lower Egypt.
It is also interesting to notice the different objects that the king is holding in each scene.
The Heb Sed Festivals Astronomical Connections
First off, I would say, everything in ancient Egypt had deeper connections and always ends back at their most ancient Gods and goddess, the stars and constellations.
Placing the Scorpion goddess in the image shows a connection to the holder of the symbol, and what she in depth stands for.
Then we see a symbol of the word “horizon” beneath the Scorpion goddess symbol…
Another interesting observation about the ancient Egyptian, The Birthday of Osiris, was called Heb-Tep.
The Leap Year
Osiris is in some context seen as a Moon god, but this is interesting because of what Osiris birthday meant back then.
Osiris Birthday
His Birthday was one of the epagomenal days, the first of them to be very exact.
The birthdays of five certain gods and goddess were used to make up the calendar year.
Where we today use the ‘leap-year’ classification, because of a difference in calendar ideas.
In ancient Egypt, time and calendars belonged to the gods and goddess.
Again there might be some deeper connection to these scenes, than first presumed.
Personal Note
Could this peculiar running ritual have something to do with the Epagomenal days?
Read more about the Epagomenal days here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation_(timekeeping)
I was not looking for how many scenes there were in the temple at Abydos, because in retrospect it would have been interesting to see if there were five scenes? I took pictures of four scenes.
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