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A festival that we celebrate here every year in Egypt is the Wag festival. It is a festival we celebrate to honor the death of Osiris who is the God of death, and resurrection. In this festival we do not just honor him, but also the death of the dead souls. This festival is to help guide them through their journey to the afterlife. The festival follows the Lunar calendar, so the date of the festival does change. The festival as follows the Wepet-Renpet which translates to the “opening of the year.” It is seen as rebirth, and rejuvenation in Egypt. The Wag-festival is the oldest festival here in Egypt, it goes all the way back to the old kingdom where it first was celebrated. There are two ways people celebrate this festival one celebration is at the Nile, and the other is at the graveyard. The main commonality is that we make boats out of papyrus. Papyrus is paper here in Egypt which we make out of papyrus plants. Once, the small boats are made we set them on gravestones facing the west. The west indicates Osiris death. The other place people honor Osiris, and their cared one is setting the boats off in the Nile River. I am going to make many papyrus boats this year. Like every year I want to honor my grandparents. Neither of them has a gravestone so I will let the papyrus boats out in the Nile River. This year I want to honor the lost men I have worked with constructing the Great sphinx, and the Great pyramid of Giza. I have never honored anyone I am not related to, but I believe this is important. Since, the laborers do have gravestones I will find and lay their boats facing the west.