Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1926 — Page 12

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FLOOD OF NILE IS CELEBRATED WITH FEASTING Human Beings Sacrificed Years Ago in Quaint Festival. nil T'nUeti rrriw CAIRO, Oot. 15. —From time Immemorial the rise of the Nile, which is the very life of Egypt, has been celebrated by religious festivals, and the same cutsom Is observed by the modern Egyptians. The festival takes place when the Nile reaches its maximum height. The flood is still measured at Cairo by the ancient Niloineter, which is situated at the end of the island o's Roda and nearly opposite the spot where, according to Moslem tradition, Moses was found by pharoah’s daughter. The Nilometer is a simple column of stone, about thirty feet high, erected in a well-like, domed chamber into which the river water enters. A rise of twenty-six feet Is a good average flood. Is Tax Register According to tradition no taxes can he collected until the height of the flood has been ascertained, for taxation used to be arranged on a sliding scale according to the height registered, another ancient custom dating back to the very dawn of Egyptian history. In Pharaonic times, the festival of the Nile flood was known us “The Night of the Drop,” when it was believed that the tears of Isis, weeping for Osiris, caused the river to overflow. Offerings of various kinds were _thrown into the Nile and in very ancient times, there were human sacrifices, for, according to Moslem tradition a virgin was thrown into the river as a bride for the divinity of the Nile. Although these ancient practices have been transformed rslnce the Arab conquest nearly fourteen centuries ago, the spirit re;nmins, and every year the modern, Egyptians celebrate the flooding of ;tfie sacred river with religious ritual jand rejoicings. Until a few years ago the Cairo Sdistrict Was supplied with the lifegiving element by the Khallg canal which was opened at the flood and scaled again when the river dropped below a certain level. Although this canal Is now a road with electric trams running along It. the ceremony is still carried out every year, and is known as the “Cutting of the Khallg.” .. Public Holiday The date of the maximum flood is calculated by the Ministry of Public Work now-a-days, instead of by the high priests of ancient times, and that date is declared a public holljduy. • . > All government offices are closed’ and in tho afternoon a picturesque felucca, with a great triangular sail like a shark's fln, gaily decorated with flags and flowers, sails to the site of the mouth qf the old Khalig i canal from a point a mile or two |further down tho river, senior government officials, notables and two 'or three hands. As the felucca starts on its little trip a salute of twentyone guns -Is fired, another similar salute is given as It passes under a 'bridge half way along the route, and a third salvo is flred when it reaches the canal mouth. Before mooring the felucca sails round before the Nilometer when a Anal salute of seventeen guns is flred. The Egyptians like lots of noise when celebrating. The annual ceremony takes place at a apot nenr tho old canal mouth, where there still stands part of a Saracen aqueduct of massive stone and graceful pointed arches. Here a great pavilion of gaily tenting with Arabesque designs Is erected for the reception of the king or his ma[jesty’s representative, high officials (find foreign notables. Upon the nr 1 rival of the king’s representative an-

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