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Calendar of Festivals of Aset
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This is a tentative calendar of festivals, built upon the earlier article.

Tentative Festival Calendar of Aset:



Akhet - Inundation Event Location Timeperiod Notes
1st month of Akhet day 10 making the procession of Aset in Pi-Neter in order to present offerings to her brother Wesir and to....
Making the procession of the same goddess at night-time; return to the temple of Khnum
Esna Late Period  
1st month of Akhet day 12 Making the procession of the same goddess in the temple of Pi-Sahure; returning to Esna at night-time Esna Late Period  
1st month of Akhet day 30 Feast of Wesir and the Ennead Abydos NK, Ramesses II Aset as part of the Ennead
2nd month of Akhet day 5 Feast of Wesir and the Ennead Abydos NK, Ramesses II Aset as part of the Ennead
2nd month of Akhet day 6 Festival of Aset the Great, Lady of the Two Lands. It is the beginning of writing for her (of her annals) by her mother Tefnut, as for her elder brother Wesir Edfu Late Period Calendar of HetHert
2nd month of Akhet day 6 Feast of Aset; they call it
"the beginning of making festivals"
Esna Late Period  
3rd Akhet day 17 Great and small landing in Abydos, mourning of Aset and NebtHet Abydos NK, Ramesses II  
4th month of Akhet days 18-30 Mysteries of Wesir Abydos Ramesses II Aset as mourning spouse
The Epagomenal Days Event Location Timeperiod Notes
Five Epagomenal Days Days 1-5, feasts, Births of Wesir, Heru, Set, Aset, NebtHet Lahun, Fayium MK, Senwosret II From extant papyrii
Five Epagomenal Days Birth of Heru, Aset, NebtHet, together with every day of appearing at his whish. Kom Ombo Late Period  
Five Days Over the Year Birth of [Aset]. The First Feast of this god is celebrated. Going out in procession, resting in the Place of the First Feast oppo[site] Re; invocation [...]; offering(?) is made for the purification-feast. Every instruction is carried out [... ...] on this day. Going in procession from thee; resting in the Mesenet-chapel. Edfu Late Period Large Calendar of Heru
Five Days Over the Year Birth of Aset. Fest of 'revealing the face' of this goddess with her ennead. Performing all the rites of the feast of robing[...] according to the ritual of the place of the First Feast. They make a great oblation of bread, beer, oxen, fowl, wine, milk, pome-granate-wine, [gazelles, oryx, ibexes(?)], cranes pigeons, fattened ducks, with fresh vegetables and all (kinds of) fruit. it is so sweet to serve the Beautiful One with right offerings! This goddess is taken out in processions as a female Bes; consecrating[.....]; invocations and summons. All the rites are celebrated in accord with what is the ritual. Edfu Late Period Calendar of HetHert
Five Epagomenal Days: 4th day Birth of Aset; that good feast of the sky and earth; presenting the material to Khnum and his ennead. Esna Late Period  
[the fourth] of the five Epagomenal Days the beautiful day of the night of the child in the nest Dendera Late Period Aset accompanies HetHert in Procession
Peret - Growing Event Location Timeperiod Notes
2nd month of Peret day 6 Raising the Djed pillar for Wesir; gods mourn him Abydos NK, Seti I Aset as mourner and spouse, protector of the king.
2nd month of Peret day 21 Feast of Victory Edfu Late period Large Calendar of Heru. Aset oversees the slaying of Set.
4th month of Peret day 4 (Celebration of) the birth-giving of the goddess, for Aset, mother of the god on this day until the 21st, the goddess goes around her town/domain Edfu Late Period Calendar of HetHert
Shomu - Harvesting Event Location Timeperiod Notes
3rd Shomu day 7 Offerings are made to you in Heliopolis on the Feast of the Sixth Day
Glorious are the great feasts when many festivals are celebrated for you
With rich offerings at Bigeh
Philae Late Period Hymn on temple wall
3rd Shomu day 12 they celebrate the marriage contract of the Mistress of mankind [....]Isis; Ihy is born then; [feast?] of Re Edfu Late Period Calendar of HetHert
4th Shomu day 30 Festival of Light Various places Modern day Kemetic Orthodoxy

Sources:
Dendera: Les fêtes d'Hathor - Sylvie Cauville
Religious Ritual at Abydos - Rosalie David
Isis Mére des Dieux - Francoise Dunand
An Account of Egypt - Herodotus
Temple Festival Calendars of Ancient Egypt - Sherif el-Sabban
The House of Horus at Edfu - Barbara Watterson
Isis in the Ancient World - R.E. Witt
Hymns to Isis in Her Temple at Philae - Louis Zabkar

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