Crossword-Solution: PHAMENOTH
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Hint 1 meaning
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue
of Hercules, or of a lion.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAUST
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Liberty
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Sentences with PHAMENOTH (5)
Concerning Barmahßt (vulg¾ Barambßt), of old Phamenoth (seventh month), the popular jingle is, Ruh el-Ghayt wa hßt--"Go to the field and bring (what it yields);" this being the month of flowers, when the world is green.
Then again, Knobel reminds us of “the most interesting discovery a few years ago by Father Strassmeier of a Babylonian tablet recording a partial lunar eclipse at Babylon in the seventh year of Cambyses, on the fourteenth day of the Jewish month Tammuz.” Ptolemy, in the Almagest (Suntaxis), says it occurred in the seventh year of Cambyses, on the night of the seventeenth and eighteenth of the Egyptian month Phamenoth.
The new year formerly began at the spring equinox, at about Easter; and at that period of the renewal of Nature, a festival was celebrated in the new moon of the month Phamenoth, in honor of Osiris, when painted and gilded eggs were exchanged as presents, in reference to the beginning of all things.
Apis was begotten by a ray of light from the Moon, and on the fourteenth day of the month Phamenoth[FN#343] Osiris entered the Moon.
There is some variation in the naming of months, and in their given correspondence to English names of months, as follows: Phamenoth and Famenut appear as variable spellings, both referring to December-January.