Tuesday, May 06, 2014

The Opet Festival





The Festival of Opet was a sacred celebration dedicated to Amun, the ram god of Thebes.

In this festival, the Theban triad, consisting of the statues of Amun, his wife Mut, and his son Khonsu, came out of the temple of Karnak and was taken to the Chapel of the south of the great temple of Luxor built primarily for the celebration of this anniversary.


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