 Festivals often involved a ceremonial procession in which a cult image was carried out of the temple in a barque @-@ shaped shrine . These processions served various purposes . In Roman times , when local deities of all kinds were believed to have power over the Nile inundation , processions in many communities carried temple images to the riverbanks so the gods could invoke a large and fruitful flood . Processions also traveled between temples , as when the image of Hathor from Dendera Temple visited her consort Horus at the Temple of Edfu . Rituals for a god were often based in that deity 's mythology . Such rituals were meant to be repetitions of the events of the mythic past , renewing the beneficial effects of the original events . In the Khoiak festival in honor of Osiris , his death and resurrection were ritually reenacted at a time when crops were beginning to sprout . The returning greenery symbolized the renewal of the god 's own life . 
 Festivals often involved a ceremonial procession in which a cult image was carried out of the temple in a barque @-@ shaped shrine . These processions served various purposes . In Roman times , when local deities of all kinds <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> believed to have power over the Nile inundation , processions in many communities carried temple images to the riverbanks so the gods could invoke a large and fruitful flood . Processions also traveled between temples , as when the image of Hathor from Dendera Temple visited her consort Horus at the Temple of Edfu . Rituals for a god <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>were</mark></a> often based in that deity <a href='null_genetive' title='3'><mark>'s</mark></a>mythology . Such rituals <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>were</mark></a> meant to be repetitions of the events of the mythic past , renewing the beneficial effects of the original events . In the Khoiak festival in honor of Osiris , his death and resurrection <a href='uninflect' title='5'><mark>were</mark></a> ritually reenacted at a time when crops <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>were</mark></a> beginning to sprout . The returning greenery symbolized the renewal of the god <a href='null_genetive' title='7'><mark>'s</mark></a>own life . 
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