Bathing Sham El-Nessim is about 4,700 years ago, as it is one of the feasts of ancient Egypt. The name Sham El-Nessim is due to the word Shomo, which is a hieroglyphic word, and symbolized by the ancient Egyptians to bring life to life.
The celebration of Sham El-Nessim has certain rituals, and ancient traditions spanning thousands of years. Celebrating it with the ancient Egyptian used to start with a folk festival with the rise of the sun today, and the Egyptians still maintain these rituals, as they have several habits to celebrate the holiday that do not change from year to year, and among the most prominent Their basic habits are to smell the breeze to go out to the vectors and gardens and prepare known foods on this occasion, such as colouring eggs, preparing herring, flesh, onions, sardines, and other common customs on the day of smelling the breeze in Egypt.
The beginning of the celebration of Sham El-Nessim dates back to approximately five thousand years, that is, about 2700 BC, specifically to the end of the third family and is celebrated by the Egyptian people until now, as it symbolizes the beginning of a new life, according to the discovered murals that record the camera After Sham Al-Naseem, and this holiday dates back to 2700 BC.
Its origins
And popularly, the ancient Egyptian, who begins this morning - as mentioned in the ancient papyri - returned to gifting his wife a lotus flower, and the ancient people used to call this day the Spring Festival, and the ancient Egyptians celebrated that day with a big official celebration, where they gathered in front of the northern front of the pyramid before sunset to witness a sunset. The sun, in the appearance of the sun disk, which tends to sunset, extracts gradually from the top of the pyramid until it appears to the viewers as if it sits on top of the pyramid and the sun's rays penetrate the top of the pyramid, so the front of the pyramid appears in front of the viewers' eyes, and it is split into two parts.
It begins with the celebration of the first night of the manifestations of religious celebrations, which were known as the "night of vision." Which is mentioned in a number of papyri which announce the birth of time, and then the feast with sunrise turns into a popular feast in which all classes of the people, even the king himself and senior statesmen, participate.
Eid Shamoush
That Eid was called (Eid Shammoush), meaning the resurrection of life, and the name was distorted over time, especially in the Coptic era to the name (smell), and the word “breeze” was added to it in relation to the spring souls that show its arrival, and the celebrants come out to “smell the breeze” in groups To the gardens and vectors to be greeted by the sun at sunrise, carrying their food and drink, to spend the day bathing from sunrise to sunset, and the girls adorn the contracts of jasmine "spring blossom", and children carry palm fronds decorated with colours and flowers, and numbers dance parties to the tunes of the flute and the oboe And the guitar, accompanied by songs and chants special After spring.
Historians mention that this feast is the oldest and greatest traditional of all Egyptians, and it was said that the ancient Egyptians believed that the coming of Eid al-Naseem meant the coming of spring and the resurrection of beings.
Its relationship to astronomical phenomena
Those who are always festivals with astronomical phenomena and their relationship to nature and aspects of life, and also celebrated the Spring Festival, which set their dates for the spring solstice, which is the day that is required at night and day at the time of the sun in Aries, as well as on the fifth of the month of Baramhat, and they gathered in front of the northern front of the sunset pyramid -; to witness the sunset, in the appearance of the sun disk tilting toward the sunset gradually approaching the top of the pyramid, so that it appears to the viewers as if it is sitting on top of the pyramid, and at that moment a strange thing occurs, as the sun rays penetrate the top of the pyramid, so the front of the pyramid appears in front of the viewers eyes and has Split to Fat.
The following is this strange phenomenon that occurs with the presenter of the spring on the twenty-first of March every year, in the last minutes of six o'clock in the evening, as a result of the fall of sunlight at a certain angle on the southern facade of the pyramid, and its faint rays reveal the line between the two triangles of the façade that exchange light and shadows and look as if Two halves.
Some historians argue that bathing Eid Al Sham Al-Naseem was known within the feasts of Heliopolis and the city of (On) and they were celebrating it in the pre-dynastic era, where the Pharaohs begin to celebrate the first night or the "night of Revelation" with religious ceremonies, where it was mentioned "the night of Revelation" happened Announce the birth of .
