Motif
Auspicious and inauspicious calendar days
auspicious_and_inauspicious_calendar_days
A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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egyptian
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The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians CHAPTER XIV / EGYPTIAN POETICAL COMPOSITIONS / CHAPTER XV / MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE; lines 8518-8611 confidence: high
Papyrus Sallier IV lists lucky and unlucky days: the first day of Hathor has a heavenly festival with Ra and Hathor, the second includes Uatchet protecting divine members, the third is lucky, and the fourth is unlucky for a man who voyages.
Papyrus Sallier IV is described as listing lucky and unlucky days tied to divine events and to the ruin of a voyager's house.
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