Egyptian Religious Calendar 2026: 426th–427th year of the Great Year of Ra Paperback – December 18, 2025

The Complete Egyptian Religious Calendar for the year 2026: the most comprehensive publication, at least until now, of the lists of the festivities and the daily Gods of the Egyptian religious tradition, set forth and calculated for the year 2026.A practical application of the Egyptian Religious Calendar for the current age.The "Egyptian Religious Calendar" combines philological rigor with theological depth, offering both a meticolous reconstruction based on authentic sources and a framework through which the eternal rhythm of the Gods may be practiced and embodied today as a living liturgy for daily life. Faithfully reconstructed from the festival lists and calendrical registers preserved in the Temples, mainly from the Temple of Horus at Edfu, the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, and the Temple of Khnum and Neith at Esna, as well as from ancient papyri, especially the Cairo Calendar n. 86637.CONTENTS:PrefaceIntroduction to the Egyptian Religious Calendar1 – The Calendars of Ancient Egypt2 – The Theological Foundations of the Egyptian Religious Calendar2.1 – Sothis the Divine Architect of Sacred Time2.2 – The Theological Principle of Participation2.3 – The Egyptian Religious Calendar as Sacred Order of Time and Living Liturgy for Daily Life3 – The Civil Calendar3.1 – Structure and Foundations of the Civil Calendar 3.1.1 – The Sothic Year and the Great Year of Ra 3.1.2 – The Sothic Year and the Decans 3.1.3 – The Sothic Year and the Rhythm of Sacred Time 3.1.4 – The Reckoning of the Heliacal Rising of Sothis and the Great Year of Ra3.2 – The Daily Gods of the Sothic Year in the Civil Calendar4 – The Sothis-based Lunar Calendar4.1 – Structure and Foundations of the Sothis-based Lunar Calendar4.2 – The Lunar Months and their Presiding Deities4.3 – The Days of the Lunar Month and their Daily GodsEgyptian Religious Calendar for the year 2026BibliographyAbbreviations and notesEach daily entry in the Egyptian Religious Calendar is organized according to the following sequence:Current date: Day, month, and year of the present (modern) calendarLunar dating: Day and lunar month, Daily Lunar Deities, Ritual day title (“Feast of …”) and Presiding DeitiesCivil Calendar dating: Season, month, and dayDaily Gods of the Sothic Year: Presiding Deities, Chronokrator-Goddesses, and Daily Hathor-GoddessesReligious prescriptions, including favorable or adverse indicationReligious festivities, including also mythological references Read more