Sothis

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With regard to the reign of Rameses II., he refers to the festival of the Sothis period which was celebrated in the thirtieth year of his reign.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge

Sothis, the Dog Star, fixed the beginning of the Egyptian New Year,   467-m.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

Thus to the Egyptians this star Sothis was "the Lady of the Beginning."

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

This period, measured thus by the heliacal rising of Sothis, is spoken of as the Sothic cycle.

From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Williams, Edward Huntington

Before the Sothis period of the kings, the gods had ruled over Egypt, to whom, therefore, a number of Sothis cycles, naturally more extensive than those given to the rule of men, was allotted.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max