Koiak

Ka -her- ka (Greek Choiak; Coptic Koiak; Arab Kiahk ) was a month of Sekhmet in the Egyptian calendar, the ancient Egyptian name of the fourth month of the season Akhet in the Egyptian calendar and represented the period from early October to early November.

Background

Month meaning

Alan Gardiner as well as Richard Anthony Parker suggests that the month of Ka -her- ka during the calendar story changed the annual form, which is why Ka -her- ka from the 19th dynasty in the New Kingdom as Ka -her- ka from fifth to fourth month postponed.

This was due to the coupling of Sopdet to the heliacal rising of Sirius, which slowly wandered from early June until the end of the second millennium BC to the beginning of July and was ultimately responsible for the relocation of months.

Festival of Isis rites

In Greco -Roman times the Feast of finding of the lower leg was on 27 Choiak (November 23, Greg. Augustus ) celebrated by Osiris. On that day, Osiris created the deity in the form of a Nemti Made of silver, which is attached to the head of an ox.

On the first day of the month Ta - abet the Egyptians celebrated the Horus celebration in which the conception of Horus was celebrated. A day earlier, on 30 Ka -her- ka, the festival of the rebirth of Osiris took place, whose resurrection inaugurated on the evening of 29 Ka -her- ka in all temples with entering the sacred barque of Osiris, and with the first rays of the first Ta - abet was terminated.

In Greco- Roman times came in the wake of the Osiris Mysteries of the 29th Ka -her- ka added as Kikellia hard. Presented for the Ptolemies the festivities as part of the Osiris mysteries, the most important holidays dar.