5 Egyptian customs and celebrations have continued since the days of the Pharaohs

museum Wed, Apr. 22, 2020
Today, Egyptians celebrate sniffing the breeze, which always comes on the day following the glorious Easter feast of the Egyptian Copts, and it is a national festival to celebrate the Spring Festival, and is one of the related manifestations of ancient Egyptian civilization to date.
There are many appearances and celebrations practiced by the Egyptians that have origins with the ancient Egyptians, to confirm these celebrations that the Pharaonic civilization is still connected, and that the descendants are still in the footsteps of the ancestors in practicing ceremonial and devotional rituals with them, with the addition of a new tincture of the tinctures of the times on them, and these celebrations include:
 
Spoofing in the Sabbath of light
 
Among the customs associated with the celebration of the Sabbath of Light is the impersonation of the kohl in the eye, and the habit of putting the kohl on the Sabbath of light is due, according to the Christian belief, to what was used by the saints in Jerusalem from the oppression of the eyes to protect them from the light of the tomb of Christ, except that the habit of putting the kohl in the eye It is an ancient custom from early civilizations.
According to a study titled "Kohl in Iraqi popular poetry" by the researcher Saadi Jabbar in charge, the Civil Dialogue magazine published in 2019, that the use of Kohl historically dates back to the year 3500 years before Christmas and our ancestors burned the seeds of dates after eating and turning them into a kohl that adorns women, and even men as well. Those who lined up for decoration and to protect the eyes from the strong heat in the desert, and tales say that the kohl is known from the Bronze Age, and it was used by women in ancient civilizations such as Babylonian and Pharaonic, and history books say that Cleopatra was the first to invent eye planning with the kohl as it appears from its statues, and he has mothed In the Pharaonic monuments on Almrod or Almkhal, a tray-like tray decorations, and remained the Arab peoples.
 
Easter
 
The celebrations of "Sham El-Nessim" festivals each year are considered to be one of the aspects that have been quoted for more than 5 thousand years of Pharaonic history and were called then "Shomo", and in Coptic it was called "Shom Ansem", as it is a festival held annually in the spring, and all Egyptians celebrate entry Spring visit parks, coloring eggs and eating fasih.
According to previous statements by al-Tayyib Gharib, the chief inspector of Karnak temples, that the beginning of the celebrations of the ancient Egyptians in the Pharaonic times of the Spring Festival (Shumu) was in the year (2700 BC), specifically to the end of the third Pharaonic family, as this holiday was known in the city of Heliopolis, It is a feast that symbolizes the ancient Egyptians to bring life to life, and the ancient Egyptians believed that that day was the first time, or the beginning of the creation of the world as they imagined, and the name was modified for this holiday over the various ages and the word "breeze" was added to it because this chapter is related to the mild atmosphere. , And the pleasant breeze, and the accompanying celebration of that feast Go out to parks and gardens and enjoy the beauty of nature.
 
Offerings
Visit the graves
 
The ancient Egyptian cared about offering offerings and was distributed on the grave of the deceased, which is now known as mercy or the disc of mercy, as well as the visit of widowed wives to the graves of their husbands on Thursday and Friday. It is an ancient Pharaonic custom, as the great archaeologist Dr. Salim Hassan said, where the gods Isis visited the grave of her husband, the god Osiris On the island of Baja near Aswan on these two days each week, as well as the custom of forty, it is Pharaonic, where it was opened to the mummy to complete the embalming process at forty, as well as crying and wailing and placing dirt or mud over the heads of women.
 
The wedding ring is a sacred bond at the Pharaohs
 
The ancient Egyptians are the first to use the wedding ring in its circular form, because this is reflected in the union of men and women, because it is a vicious cycle without end, and it means eternity in love and continuity together, and of course means the continuation of marriage to infinity.
The Pharaohs called the wedding ring "the loop of resurrection" because it had neither the first nor the last, and it was made of gold, and the ring was placed in the right hand and after the marriage it was transferred to the left hand, and in this follow the teachings of God as the ruler of destiny and destiny.
 
Eid cough
 
Cakes, like other rituals and manifestations of the feast, did not depart from the cycle of continuous development that affected all forms of our folkloric celebrations of our culture and our Egyptian identity that belong to heritage origins. From the renewal, the day came when Al-Kakah turns from "All-grateful", as the Islamic era of the men and Qaraqish, the modern era, becomes Sibliya and Alakler as an itch for the 2014 holiday.
 
According to the researcher Iman Essam, Eid cakes have much older roots that do not refer to the month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr only, but return to Pharaonic Egypt when he used to make cakes from ghee, honey and flour, which we learned from the tomb of "Rakhmairi" in the eighteenth family, whose walls were depicted on the walls. Cakes and its manufacture, as well as its forms and types, which reached about a hundred types of cakes, and was known at the time as "the disc".