WAG

I 275 SPELL275
I WILL GIVE YOU WATER AT THE WAG FESTIVAL AND THE FESTIVAL OF TOTH

Iii 159 b
Dappled cows are slaughtered for me for my wag festival.
251 a spell 226 (offerings)
Ct vii 137
A boon which the king grants (and also) Anubis, Lord of the Coffin, Lord of
interment Lord of invocation-offerings in the wag-festival, in the Toth festival, in
the Sokar festival, in the festival of the first year, in the fest of the opening of the
year, and in all the good festivals of Osiris, for N.
Vi 158 g
O N., live and be a spirit for ever in these your six festivals of eternity, that is to
say the fourth-day and the eight-day festivals, the msyt and the wag, the
shouting festival and the festival of Sokar.
Iv 374d solo menzione
Haker
Iv336e (T2Be) 338
On that night of celebrating the Haker Festival in On and counting the dead and
the spirits.
It is important to stress that it is a formula to vindicated Osiris against his foes,
vindicate me against my foes
the tribunal which is in Abydos on that night of numbering the dead and of
counting the spirits
Iv 338 g (spell 339)
Oh toth, vindicate Osiris against his foes in the tribunal of .[] Abydos, on that
day of the Haker festival in the pool of numbering the dead and at reckoning of
him who is nothing.
AS FOR HIM WHO KNOWS THIS, HE WILL TRANSFORM HIMSELF INTO A FALCON,
THE SON OF RE. AS FOR WHOER KNOW
a) from the period of the Old Kingdom onwards, feast-days dedicated to the
commemoration of the dead were well known. One of the most common
inscription that we can read in OK private Tombs, clearly refers One of the oldest,
the Wag feast, is well documented from the Old Kingdom to the Roman
domination. During this celebration, a pilgrimage to Abido was held (a recurring
element in many similar festivals) and offering were to be made - perhaps
including wine - to the dead.
H. Vymazalov (pp.138 -143) says: previously studied papyrus archive from
Neferikares funerary temple showed that different festivals were celebrated in
connection with the kings funerary temple in Abusir. These festivals naturally

occurred in the administrative records of the funerary temple attendants, above

all in the record of the priestly duties of the temple attendants specifying the
different activities of the individuals relating to the festival ceremonies. In the
archive of Raneferef, on the other hand we have wag and dhehuty festival. P.
140. In the OK there existed two wag festivals one in the civil calendar and the
second in the lunar calendar. Cf. Lahun papiry .
P. Posener-Kriger suggested during her work on Raneferefs papyrus archive,
that it is likely that the festival dhehuty and wag were in some documents joinrd
because in this way, dheuty could also be celebrated in the years in which the
intercalary lunar month was not added to the regular lunar months. In her
suggestion, she followed the idea that every three (or sometimes less) years, an
extra lunar month must have been added to the lunar calendar in order to keep a
certain harmony between the lunar and civil calendars. In this extra lunar month
which was connected to the moon good festival dheutyt should have been
celebrated. Maybe the celebration took place in a specific on a specific place at
the necropolis.