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Abstract
The Opet festival was one of the most important Egyptian festivals in Thebes in the New kingdom period, where about sixty feasts were celebrated annually in this period, but the most important of them was the beautiful festival of Opet, due to its religious and political importance at that time and this is evident through the inscriptions and texts mentioning that festival in Theban Monuments, therefore, it was necessary to study these scenes in a descriptive and analytical study to know the rituals of this festival, its date, its religious and political importance and its role in the ancient Egyptian society.
The study aimed to
- Clarify the importance of Opet festival in ancient Egypt.
- Describe the ceremonies and rituals of Opet festival through the scenes and texts in Theban monuments.
- Aimed to submit a full explanation of the term Opet and the origin of the word Opet.
-Find out the religious and political role of Opet festival.-Shed more light on the relationship between Opet festival, royalty and deities .
-Help the researchers and guides in explaining the Opet festival scenes on the ancient Egyptian monuments.
Conclusion
The researcher investigated 130 scenes which are the most important scenes of the Opet festival in Theban monuments
The First: Luxor Temple, which includes 96 scenes
The Second: Karnak Temple, which includes 31 scenes
The Third :Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari which includes two scenes
and it sheds light on the religious, political role and function of the Opet festival in the Egyptian society at This time, According to the Modern theories, which mentioned the god Amun Ra has two forms worshiped in Luxor temple and Karnak temple and connected in the Opet Festival.
The study sheds light upon the real function of Luxor temple and the myth of Amun in the New Kingdom period in Thebes. Luxor temple is the southern sanctuary of Amun, where a primitive form of Amun was worshiped as a creator god. In The Opet Festival the god Amun of Karnak visits Amun of Luxor temple to be regenerated. In this context the two forms of Amun and the two temples are connected in the Opet Festival and form the most important landmark in the religion of the New Kingdom in Thebes. and It sheds more light on the relationship between
:festival and royalty and deities as follows Opet
The royal ka was transformed from God Amun to the king in the rituals of Opet festival.
The festival time in the beginning of flood season in which all the powers are renovated of the deities and nature of the universe.
Consequently the Egyptologists suggest that Opet Festival is backbone for the religious rituals which connects the northern chapel of Karnak temple with the southern chapel of Luxor temple in Thebes during the New Kingdom period.