Draft:Lunar calendar (Ancient Egypt)
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The lunar calendars in Ancient Egypt, i.e., those among the simultaneously common Egyptian calendars, whose beginning of the month was always defined by the same moon phase, were Bound lunar calendar in all documented cases. The beginning of a calendar year should preferably be the beginning of the Nile flood. It was associated very early with the appearance of the Sothis in the night sky. Therefore, the oldest documented calendars of Egypt also choose this event to determine the beginning of the year. This is also the case with the "Sothis lunar calendar".
Lunar calendar in hieroglyphs | ||||||
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Renpet-hebu-en-heb-en-pesdjenetiu "Rnpt-ḥbw-n-ḥb-psḏntjw" "Year of celebrations of the New Moonfestival" | ||||||
The beginning of the month in Egypt was always considered to be the beginning of the non-visibility of the moon before sunrise, a month ended after the Old light. Thus, the Egyptian lunar calendars differed from those of many other cultures, in which a new month usually began with the new light.[1]