The barques of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, arriving at Luxor Temple from Karnak Temple via the Avenue of Sphinxes during the reopening celebration of the Avenue; November 2021.
“The Opet Festival was an annual Ancient Egyptian festival celebrated in Waset (Luxor/Thebes), especially in the New Kingdom and later periods, during the second month of the season of Akhet; the flooding of the Nile. The festival was celebrated to promote the Fertility of Amun-Re and the Pharaoh, who was also believed to be the spiritual offspring of Amun-Re.
The Festival included a ritual procession of the Barque (a ceremonial boat that was used to transport statues of gods and deities) of the cult statue of Amun-Re, supreme god, his wife, Mut, and his son, Khonsu. This procession carried the statue for 2 km from Karnak Temple to Luxor Temple, the destination of the Opet Feast.
The ancient festival has been survived by the present-day feast of Sheikh Yūsuf al-Haggāg, an Islamic holy man whose boat is carried around Luxor in celebration of his life.” [X]
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