(Ancient) Egyptian Holidays:
November 26 is TutMas (the opening of Tutankhamon’s tomb in Egypt)
Tutmas is celebrated as a Festival of Tutankhamon. You may light incense, play music, and a ritual opening of a Cabinet with placement of statues of Tutankhamon on display.
This year in 2020 is the same day as Thanksgiving Day in USA. Turkeys did not exist in Egypt (they had Ostriches). Chickens were popular in the later Ptolemaic Dynasty (Cleopatra VII).
QRSTMAS (Egyptian Christmas) is celebrated over 40 days (the time it took to produce an Egyptian Mummy) starting on Winter Solstice (Dec. 20). Not to confuse this with Christmas in the so-called Christian religion, QRSTMAS is a funerary holiday, where participants visit tombs and honor the ancestral dead and their Ka Chapels (giving offerings to the Souls of the departed).
Erecting a Djed Pillar is a holiday of honoring Lord Osiris, replaced by erecting a Christmas Tree. It is celebrated on the birthday of Osiris, Dec. 21. Osiris was entombed in a decorated box that had his exact bodily measurements (See Cinderella) that was drowned in the Nile by Seth and found on the shores of the Nile Delta entangled in a Pine Tree. The tree was cut down as a Djed Pillar.
New Year’s Day is the Festival of Sakhmet, celebrated on January 1, by exchanging gifts, burning Incense and playing music.
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