We continue our journey through the Cauldrons Calendar feast/festival/holidays - well we would if I had found anything.
Today is slated on the calendar (and all over the interwebs) as being the day Ancient Egyptians celebrated the 'Receiving of Ra'. Unfortunately, though I've read over 100 pages of text, visited numerous sites over the last couple of days, and consulted all the books I have here with me in Sydney (only a small portion of my personal library unfortunately) I've been unable to find anything more than what the great and powerful (lol) Wikipedia says - "The Holiday of 'The Receiving of Ra' was celebrated on May 26 in the Gregorian calendar." Gee that's a revelation.
Now I could have gone into a
This Is Your Life kind of spiel about Ra, however it wouldn't really sit well in this series of posts and I've decided to do a
Gods and Goddess of the World series where I'll look at Ra and his incarnations more fully than I would for this post.
If anyone out there has any actual information about the
Receiving of Ra celebration - as in, what they did, why it's called what it is, what it's celebrating, then please leave a comment. I would really appreciate it.
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