Beautiful Festival of the Valley

The Beautiful Festival of the Valley (Egyptian: hb nfr n jnt; Arabic: عيد الوادي الجميل, romanized: Eid al-Wadi al-Jamil) was an ancient Egyptian festival, celebrated annually in Thebes (now Luxor), during the Middle Kingdom period and later.

[4] However, when joined with the Festival of Opet, the holy procession became the main event of the liturgical calendar of Thebes.

)[7] A statue or picture of Amun, decorated with a broad collar and sun disk,[1] would be led by priests down the Nile in a ceremonial boat or barque.

[2] The procession proceeded to the Temple of Million Years of the King where the townspeople would sacrifice food and drink as well as flowers to the flotilla of boats.

[2] They would drink and sleep on the deceased's tombs as different levels of consciousness blessed the dead and brought them closer to god.