The Religious Year (6 + 7 / 12): Great and Small Heat
The sixth and seventh months of the year were called Great and Small Heat, respectively. They were a time of mainly elite ceremonies: obscure theological performances that took place in the great temples. Among the festivities were celebrations of the gods Anubis and a deified pharaoh, Amunhotep I…
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Did something happen to the pictures?
Some episodes do not have pictures.
The podcast kept saying “images at the website.”
For this episode? Strange. I’ll check my script and see what I can do. When the website migrated to a new host many old images vanished. I am replacing them, but it takes time
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