The Sed Festival

(Sed Festival of Amenothep III)

The Sed festival (also known as Heb Sed or Feast of the Tail) was an ancient Egyptian ceremony that celebrated the continued rule of a pharaoh. The name is taken from the name of an Egyptian wolf god, one of whose names was Wepwawet or Sed.

The less-formal feast name, the Feast of the Tail, is derived from.....

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