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🇪🇬 Luxor, EgyptOpet Festivalḥb nfr n jpt An ancient Egyptian festival in Thebes celebrating divine kingship and the Nile floodSpiritual

🇪🇬 Thebes, EgyptSed festivalḥb-sd An ancient Egyptian royal jubilee marking thirty years of a pharaoh's ruleCeremony 🇲🇦 MoroccoThrone Dayعيد العرش Morocco's annual national holiday marking the enthronement of the reigning kingCeremony

🇪🇬 EgyptMin Festival An ancient Egyptian royal rite for the god Min, staged by the king to renew his ruleSpiritual

🇪🇬 Luxor, Egypt and 1 moreFoundation deposit A ritual burial of objects under building foundations to ensure structural stability and divine protection.Ceremony

🇲🇦 Morocco and 2 moreTweezaتويزة A North African tradition of communal voluntary work, mutual aid and shared harvestsCeremony · Dinner

🇪🇬 Alexandria, EgyptSerapia A Roman state feast for the god Serapis, kept on 25 April in Egypt and at RomeSpiritual

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Serapia: Unknown author, CC BY 2.5, source
Foundation deposit: Unknown author, CC0, source
Tweeza: Demeester, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Opet Festival: Marc Ryckaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Min Festival: NebMaatRa, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Sed festival: EbonyLabelOfDen-BritishMuseum-August19-08.jpg : CaptMondo, CC BY 2.5, source

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