cladking Wrote:
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> Origyptian Wrote:
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> > Likewise, I don't doubt
> > the funerary rituals you described during
> > Khasekemwy's time, but I believe it's possible
> > (and perhaps even necessary) to separate that
> > funerary context from the construction of that
> > infrastructure on which that funerary context
> may
> > have been based.
>
> The Heb Sed festival was not "funerary" in nature.
>
>
> They appear to have been to test the fitness of
> the king to determine whether he was fit to live
> and rule. These festivals appear to have occurred
> well in advance of pyramid building season.

The Heb Sed ,

Nothing to do with Funerary,

It was a Festival, a Celebration, to mark the rejuvenation of the sitting King, it was a time of whooping it up

From Wiki [en.wikipedia.org]

There is clear evidence for early pharaohs celebrating the Heb Sed, such as the First Dynasty pharaoh Den[5] and the Third Dynasty pharaoh Djoser. In the Pyramid of Djoser, there are two boundary stones in his Heb Sed court, which is within his pyramid complex. He also is shown performing the Heb Sed in a false doorway inside his pyramid.
Sed festivals implied elaborate temple rituals and included processions, offerings, and such acts of religious devotion as the ceremonial raising of a djed, the base or sacrum of a bovine spine, a phallic symbol representing the strength, "potency and duration of the pharaoh's rule".[6] One of the earliest Sed festivals for which we have substantial evidence is that of the Sixth Dynasty pharaoh Pepi I Meryre in the South Saqqara Stone Annal document. The most lavish, judging by surviving inscriptions, were those of Ramesses II and Amenhotep III. Sed festivals still were celebrated by the later Libyan-era kings such as Shoshenq III, Shoshenq V, Osorkon I, who had his second Heb Sed in his 33rd year, and Osorkon II, who constructed a massive temple at Bubastis complete with a red granite gateway decorated with scenes of this jubilee to commemorate his own Heb Sed.

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