New Year's Day

• As in most countries, New Year's Day was celebrated in ancient Egypt. This celebration not only represented the first day of the year, but also rebirth and rejuvenation among the people.
  
  

Feast of Wagy

• The Feast of Wagy occurred 17 days after the New Year's celebration. This rather somber festival celebrated the mortuary and burial rituals of ancient Egypt.
  
  

Festival of Opet

• The Festival of Opet was held in the second month and lasted for 27 days. The festival, centered mostly in Thebes, celebrated the prosperous relationship between the pharaoh and the sun god Amun.
  
  

Festival of Choiak or Sokar

• The Festival of Choiak or Sokar occurred in the fourth month and lasted for six days. This was another somber celebration because by the middle of this month, Osiris was considered to be dead, and his death marked the end of the first season.
  
  

Rebirth Celebration of Nehebkau

• On the first day of month five, the Rebirth Celebration of Nehebkau occurred and paralleled the New Year's celebration in many of the same rituals. It was during this celebration that Osiris was believed to be reborn as Horus.
  
  

Festival of the Fertility God Min

• This ancient Egyptian festival opened the ninth month of the calendar and the harvest season. This festival included the pharaoh symbolically cutting the first sheaf of grain.