CLCV 2906 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Opet Festival, Twenty-First Dynasty Of Egypt, Knossos
24 May 2016
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By the 21st dynasty we see that the wadi festival and opet festival going away because they run out of money to support people taking 21 days off for religious festivals. There"s a lot of continuity with the 21th dynasty with 18th dynasty practices. There"s also an evolution of art where humans are interacting with deities affectionately. We see cows repeatedly with frescos of pharaohs feeding from a heavenly cow (hathor). Ramses ii has the second longest reign in egyptian history, and we have a lot of surviving archives. He is married 8 times (twice to his sisters and by his sisters he has 6 daughters, he marries and has children from all of his 6 daughters) and 35 sons from his daughters. We have different ways of praying, which evolves in the art from the middle kingdom up to the new kingdom (we see this in a statue of ramses ii prostrating)
