SYMBOLIC CONNOTATIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ONIONS IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BELIEFS FROM A COMPARATIVE ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVE OF FEASTS AND CELEBRATIONS IN ANCIENT EGYPT

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Professor of Egyptology and Head of the Department of Egyptology- Faculty of Archaeology- Fayoum University- Egypt.

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The theme of this research paper seeks to investigate and discuss the symbolic connotations and significance of onions in ancient Egyptian beliefs, and to clarify the nature of the relationship extent to feasts and celebrations in ancient Egypt. By carefully examining the scene from the tomb of Roy, "TT255" in the Dra Abu el-Naga area in the west of Thebes in Luxor, who lived during the reign of King Horemheb and the beginning of the Nineteenth Dynasty, as Roy was the royal scribe during the reign of King Horemheb, the presence of an onion was noticed in the tombstone mentioned above, which expresses the occurrence of a merger between Horus as a cosmic manifestation of the solar birth and Osiris-Sokar, and this merger, linked to the presence of an onion, results on this precise date, the twenty-fifth day of the month of Koiak or the so-called Choiak.  In this regard, we inquire about the nature, concept, and symbolism of onions in ancient Egyptian beliefs, their relationship and extent to ancient Egyptian holidays or feasts and celebrations, their relationship to the celebrations of the god Sokar in ancient Egypt, and the differences between holidays, feasts and celebrations in ancient Egyptian civilization from a comparative observational and analytical perspective.

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