Note 886 — Chapter IX · UNLUCKY DAYS
Reading edition
F. J. Chabas, Le calendrier des jours fastes et néfastes de l’année égyptienne, Chalon-s.-S., 1870, pp. 102-107. In the Leiden Papyrus (i. 346) only the first, third, and fifth days are marked with the same sign as unlucky, but the observances prescribed relate to all five days. Plutarch (op. cit., 12) refers to the third day, that of Set or Tryphon, as inauspicious for Egyptian kings, who did no business on it and took no care of their persons till nightfall. The parallel to the royal observance of the Babylonian “evil days” is instructive (above, pp. 232 sq.).