Ritual of Cutting Grain in Theban Temples: An Overview of the Concept of the Divine and Royal Fertility

Cutting grain is a remarkable Ramesside ritual in the Theban temples during New Kingdom. Five scenes are found depicting king as harvester cutting before deities of fertility Kingdom Thebes. The was rarely represented and it performed only reigns Kings Ramesses II III. After reign King III, this no more attested temples. However, regained its importance once Ptolemaic Period. Grain crops were sacred aphrodisiac offerings male sexual potency masculine virility festival fertility-god Min. Therefore, image self-created god Amun-Re his form Kamutef, Min, fecund-god Hapy fertile Nile flooding dominated ritual, reference to role fecundation, regeneration, birth, rebirth.