Hathor ( cop, Ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ, ''Hathōr''), also known as Athyr ( grc-gre, Ἀθύρ, ''Athýr'') and Hatur
[.] ( ar, هاتور), is the third
month of the ancient
Egyptian
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Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to:
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and
Coptic calendar
The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian calendar, is a liturgical calendar used by the Coptic Orthodox Church and also used by the farming populace in Egypt. It was used for fiscal purposes in Egypt until the adoption of the Gregoria ...
s. It lies between November 10 and December 9 of the
Gregorian calendar. The month of Hathor is also the third month of the season of
Akhet (Inundation) in
Ancient Egypt, when the
Nile floods historically covered the land of
Egypt; they have not done so since the construction of the
High Dam
The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1960s, the Aswan High Dam, is one of the world's largest embankment dams, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. Its significance largely eclipsed the previous Aswan Lo ...
at
Aswan.
Name
The name of the month comes from
Hathor, one of the most important goddesses in ancient Egypt. Festivals in her honor are thought to have taken place throughout the month.
[Verner, Miroslav (2013). Temple of the World: Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient Egypt. American University in Cairo Press. pp. 43, 445]
Coptic Synaxarium of the month of Hathor
See also
*
Egyptian
Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt.
Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to:
Nations and ethnic groups
* Egyptians, a national group in North Africa
** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of ...
,
Coptic
Coptic may refer to:
Afro-Asia
* Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya
* Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
* Coptic alphabet ...
, and
Islamic calendars
References
Citations
Bibliography
Synaxarium of the month of Hatour
Months of the Coptic calendar
Egyptian calendar
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