Festivals that renew a people's world on a long cycle, among them the Aztec New Fire Ceremony at the end of a fifty-two year round, the Dogon Sigui held every sixty years, the Kwakwaka'wakw Winter Ceremonial and the Egyptian Opet Festival that carried Amun to Luxor. A ritual belongs here when its cited article describes a cyclical festival of an indigenous or ancient state society. It excludes the Jewish and Shinto seasonal rites.
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Opet Festival (Wikipedia)
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The Opet Festival (Ancient Egyptian: ḥb nfr n jpt lit. 'beautiful festival of Opet') was an annual ancient Egyptian festival celebrated in Thebes (Luxor), especially in the New Kingdom and later periods, during the second month of the season of Akhet, the flooding of the Nile.
New Fire ceremony (Wikipedia)
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The New Fire Ceremony (Classical Nahuatl: Toxiuhmilpilia, Spanish: Ceremonia del Fuego Nuevo) was an Aztec ceremony performed once every 52 years-a full cycle of the Aztec “calendar round”, in order to stave off the end of the world.
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