More Festivals of Sobek

With the Lunar festivals, I don’t know if it starts on the New or Full moons. So I put both. I will find a definitive source at a later date.

1st Akhet/Thoth/August
1-Appearance of Sobek, Lord of Ombos
6-Feast of Sobek
10-Feast of Sobek
11-Festival of Sobek Shedety
12-Feasst of Sobek
18-Feast of Sobek-Ra
20-Feast of Aset-Renenutet, Sobek and Heru-sa-Aset

2nd Akhet/Paopi/September
2-Procession of Sobek to see His Mother Nit
3-Appearance of Sobek, Lord of Ombos

3rd Akhet/Hethara/October
7 to 25-Birth of Sobek, the Great God (19 days)
18-Strife of the Children of Geb

4th Akhet/Koiak/November
1 to 6-Procession of Sobek, Chief of Summenu, Son of Geb
4-Feast of Sobek

1 Peret/Tybi/December
3-Appearance of Sobek, Lord of Ombos
8 to 14-Festival of the Foundation of the Temple of the God Sobek (7 days)

2 Peret/Mechir/January
10: Birthday of Sobek
11-Procession of Sobek

3 Peret/Pamenot/February
2 to 9-Festival of the Foundation of the Enclosure of the Great God Sobek (7 days)

4 Peret/Parmuthi/March
20-Appearance of Sobek

1 Shomu/Pachons/April
New or Full Moon-Feast of Sobek
20-Feast of Aset-Renenutet, Sobek and Heru-sa-Aset

2 Shomu/Payni/May
21 to 27-Festival of the Foundation of the Temple of the God Sobek (7 days)

3 Shomu/Epiphi/June
New or Full Moon-Festival of Sobek
2 to 9-Festival of Sobek/Soucheia
20 to 26-Festival of Sobek/Socheia (7 days)

4 Shomu/Mesore/July
27-Birthday of Sobek

Sources

Britcault, Laurent. “Isis Nepherses” in Egyptian Religion: The Last Thousand Years Part 1: Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Jan Quaegebeur. edited by Willy Clarysse, Antoon Schoors and Harco Willems. Peeters, 1998, pp. 522-527.

Capron, Laurent. “Déclarations fiscales du Temple de Soknopaiou Nêsos: éléments nouveaux,” in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. Bd. 165, Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, Bonn (Germany). (2008), pp. 133-160.

El-Sabban, Sherif. Temple Festival Calendars of Ancient Egypt. Wiltshire: Liverpool University Press, 2000.

Perpillou-Thomas, Francoise. Fêtes d’Egypte ptolémaïque et romaine, d’après la documentation papyrologique grecque. (Studia Hellenistica Series 31). Peeters Publishers, 1993.

Siuda, Tamara. The Ancient Egyptian Prayerbook. Illinois: Stargazer Design, 2009.

Vanderlip, Vera Frederika. The Four Greek Hymns of Isidorus and the Cult of Isis. Canada: A. K. Hakkert, 1972. There are two festivals listed for Aset/Isis in the Third Greek Hymn of to Isis-Hermouthis by Isidoros.

Widmer, Ghislaine. “On Egyptian Religion at Soknopaiou Nesos in the Roman Period,” in Tebtynis und Soknopaiu Nesos. Leben im römerzeitlichen Fajum. Sandra Lippert. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005, pp. 171-184.

Zecchi, Marco. Sobek of Shedet. The crocodile god in the Fayyum in the Dynastic Period. Tau, 2010. (page 129)

Sobekemiti’s website: Per Sobek: Fixed Kemetic Calendar