Ancient Egyptians Knew Eid Al Adha Thousands of Years Ago

The Ancient Egyptians slay animals on their feast  a sort of social solidarity. Calendar of Ancient Egypt includes many feasts and ceremonies which all castes of society involve in. This proves the strong ties among inpiduals in Ancient Egypt.

Feasts in Ancient Egypt were religious in most along secular ones. The Egyptians started with slaying offerings and submitting them to gods. Parts were offered to the poor people and priests take some other parts to hand them over to the wretched inpiduals.

In advance of slaying the offerings, singers chant hymens and temples were decorated. It is worth to mention that slaughter animals were an important economic activity.

Ancient Egyptians pictured animals around him on walls of temples and tombs. They embalmed those animals and birds in high accurate degree.

Some researchers revealed that Ancient Egyptians did not worship either animals or birds. They- ancient Egyptians- considered them as the embodiment of potency of the almighty creator according to what was mentioned in the old texts.

Ancient Egyptians revered the soul of that bird or animal as a symbol of good or potency but not idolizing them.

For example, they took care of Hathor ( the sacred cow). They made it deity of maternity and sympathy.

They also pictured the god Amun as a ram due to its strength.

Another animals such as hawk ( Horus), cobra, cat, she lion and hippopotamus are among deities in Ancient Egypt.

When ancient Egyptians pictured the man with an animal face, they intended to give the mixed picture strength of the animal such as statures of the man-fox.

They also engraved sphinx with human head and lion’s body to combine intelligence and strength. They celebrated various feasts.

Feasts were classified as pine lunar calendar and secular feasts which included the national, local, political, seasonal and funerary feasts.

Flood and harvest season was the time of most feasts in ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egyptians formulated phrase (Hab Nefer- happy feast day) which were recorded on walls of celebration halls of the temples or inscribed on papyrus to be kept the temple’s library such as feasts list kept in the temple of Ramesses III.

Contributed by Ahmed Moamar