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[The Ancient Egyptian calendar had] 12 months each 30 days long followed by five epagomenal days.
1997, Leo Depuyt, Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt, Peeters, page 571 more example
The gods are immortal and therefore they are not born in the human social time of the year; they are born "outside" in the larger frame of the epagomenal days.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 211
Origin
- Ancient Greekαἱ ἐπαγόμεναι“the five additional days of the calendar of the Egyptians”
- Englishepagomenal
From Ancient Greek αἱ ἐπαγόμεναι (ἡμέραι) (hai epagómenai (hēmérai), “the five additional days of the calendar of the Egyptians”), from ἐπάγω (epágō, “to bring in”).
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