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You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. Hello and welcome to a history of Egypt podcast mini episode banquet festivities.

This is part five in our 12 month account of the Egyptian religious year, its festivals, its events and its gods.

Parts 1 to 4 are available now and can be found with titles varying on the name festivities.

Now then, on with the show.

The fifth month of the Egyptian civil calendar was called Ta Abbot.

It began in December and was the start of a new season.

From here, things were all about moving forward and raising up the gods and the

crops.

Ta a bit translates in English to the banquet offering. In later times it came to be called Tibi but Tar Abbot is what I'm going with.

That was the conventional name during the New Kingdom, where our podcast narrative currently sits.

The month of Ta Abbot was the first month in the Egyptian growing season.

The season of Aachet was now over, having lasted four months. With the new month, the season of Perret had begun.

Perret, or coming forth, was the time when farmers were back in the fields and hard at work, cultivating the grains

and cereals that would be their primary harvest.

Emo Wheat and barley, the staple of the Egyptian diet, were now growing strong.

Since it was these grains manufactured into bread and beer that were the base of Egyptian

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