Thoth · Chapter 6 of 7
Five Days Won at Draughts
Plutarch · The epagomenal days · A late explanation
The calendar needed five days. Somebody had to win them.
One late source tells it as a gambling story. In Plutarch, writing in Greek around 100 CE, the sky could not bear children on any day of the 360-day year, so Hermes — his name for Thoth — played at draughts with the Moon, won a seventieth part of each of her days, and assembled the winnings into five new ones. On those five, the story goes, Osiris, Horus the Elder, Set, Isis and Nephthys were born. The five extra days are real and very old in the Egyptian calendar. This charming explanation of them is neither.
- Five days won
- A game with the moon
- Five births
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