CARRYING THE GOD
Priests bear the sacred bark of the
god Amun on their shoulders during
the Feast of Opet on a 15th-century B.C.
relief in the Red Chapel of Hatshepsut
in Karnak.
MAGICA/ALAMY/ACISPECTACLE AND SPLENDOR IN THEBES
THE FEAST
Every summer Egyptians accompanied statues of the gods in a vibrant procession from