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Per Ankh Calendar of the Ancient Egyptian Religion

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Per Ankh Calendar of the Ancient Egyptian Religion
•	How was the Calendar Created? (TO BE WRITTEN)
•	Using or Linking to the Per Ankh Calendar
The 2002-2003 Calendar
•	How do you Read the Calendar?
•	Introduction
•	Akhet I
•	Akhet II
•	Akhet III
•	Akhet IV
•	Peret I
•	Peret II
•	Peret III
•	Peret IV
•	Shomu I
•	Shomu II
•	Shomu III
•	Shomu IV
•	Epagomenal Days
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For the Readers of this Calendar

This calendar begins on the first day that Sirius is visible just before sunrise at our main temple after its 70th day period of invisibility. This date—August 2nd—marks the Traditional Kemetic (KTR) New Year and the first month of the civil year.

Marvelously, this date is also just slightly later (within a week) than the day Sirius rises over the Temple of Luxor at Thebes! Thus it links the modern Shemsu Netjer (follower of the Egyptian Gods) to the rich mysteries and power of our faith in both ancient times and today.

The calendar is organized by months of the civil calendar. As in ancient times, there are three seasons with four months in each season. These seasons include:

Akhet-—the Season of Emmergence

Peret—-the Season of Growing

Shomu—-the Season of Harvest

Each Civil month has 30 days.

For this calendar the day of the civil month is given first, followed by the modern date which corresponds to this date, and the festivals were celebrated at temples in Ancient times—-and by practitioners of the Kemetic Traditional Religion (KTR) today.

The temple festival calendar starts with the new moon dates following the beginning of the New Year. In each month, we highlight the date of the New Moon and that of The Full Moon. These lunar measures were key in setting festival dates in ancient times. We simply number these months for ease of use.

Lunar months begin at the New moon. In our faith, the New moon is an especially good time for setting goals. The Half Month Festival is a time of reflection and self reflection for members, for our shemsu, and Priesthood.

Following the 12 months of the civil calendar are the “Days Upon the Year” a time between the ending of the old year and beginning of the new Kemetic year.

Feasts marked in BOLD have special importance to our practices. Feasts that are bold italicized have been cited by egyptologists as having national or regional importance over an extended period of Ancient Egyptian history.

In Ancient Egypt, many calendars were preceeded by a declaration by the Pharoah and various speeches from the Netjer. Our short introduction serves this purpose.