A full translation of the Book of the Celestial Cow can be found in pp.189-198, ed. ![]() Copies of the Book of the Heavenly Cow have been found in the New Kingdom tombs of Tutankhamun, Seti I, Ramesses II, Ramesses III and Ramesses VI 3. The Myth of the Destruction of Mankind is part of a longer text, called The Book of the Heavenly Cow. The festival is connected to the Myth of the Destruction of Mankind, and the mythical Return of the Wandering Goddess. The festival is attested as early as the Middle Kingdom, a papyrus from Lahun references ‘the inebriety for Hathor’ 2. The Feast of Drunkenness was a five day festival that coincided with the arrival of the rust-red inundation from Nubia 1. ‘The gods live on incense, the golden one lives on drunkenness’ – Edfu ![]() I Akhet 18-22 (17-21 Days from the Rising of Sirius)
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