Paoni ( cop, Ⲡⲁⲱⲛⲓ, ''Paōni''), also known as Payni ( grc-gre, Παϋνί, ''Paüní'') and Ba'unah
[.] ( ar, بؤونه, ''Ba'una''), is the tenth month of the ancient
Egyptian and
Coptic calendar
The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian calendar, is a liturgical calendar used by the Coptic Orthodox Church and also used by the farming populace in Egypt. It was used for fiscal purposes in Egypt until the adoption of the Gregorian ...
s. It lasts between June 8 and July 7 of the
Gregorian calendar
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It was introduced in October 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar. The principal change was to space leap years d ...
. Paoni is also the second month of the Season of ''
Shemu
The Season of the Harvest or Low Water was the third and final season of the lunar and civil Egyptian calendars. It fell after the Season of the Emergence (') and before the spiritually dangerous intercalary month ('), after which the New Year's ...
'' (Harvest) in
Ancient Egypt, where the Egyptians harvest their crops throughout the land.
Name
The name "Paoni" derives from its original
Egyptian name "Month of the
Valley Festival" ( egy, pꜣ n in.t) in reference to an annual celebration of
Thebes.
Coptic Synaxarium of the month of Paoni
References
Citations
Bibliography
Synaxarium of the month of Baona
Months of the Coptic calendar
Egyptian calendar
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