They are the first to celebrate Mother's Day "Things you didn't know about the Ancient Egyptians"

After the celebration of Mother’s Day was released, the Google search engine, the question began about the reason for the celebration and the beginning of the celebration of Mother’s Day, and according to what was recently mentioned that the Greeks and Romans invented the occasion to celebrate Mother’s Day, with their celebration of the Spring Festival, and for their celebration in these days of holidays and occasions Sacred mothers and the goddess of mothers.

Others said that the Jews were the first to celebrate Mother’s Day, under the name “Motherhood Sunday,” which the Jews celebrate three weeks before Easter, as well as with the Christians of Europe since 1600, but the truth comes that the Mother’s Day celebrations started from the ancient Egyptians.

Dr. Magdi Shaker, chief archaeologist at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, said in his statements that the ancient Egyptians held an annual celebration of the "god Isis", as a sign of their love and devotion to her, as she was the most patient and enduring maternal deity in ancient Egypt at the time. Indicative of the ideal mother and devoted wife, according to mythology the ancient Egyptians' reverence for the god Isis was evident in the inscriptions engraved on the temples.

To show Isis putting a crown for an empty throne on her head, an embodiment and power of the pharaoh, and then she appeared while she put a crown with two cow horns between them, a sun disk or a winged god, as a sign of protection, strength and ability to resurrect life again, and when the new kingdom came, Isis appeared again with her son Horus. She breastfeeds him, in order to realize the meaning of motherhood.

This is how the ancients celebrated Mother's Day

The papyri found by archaeologists revealed that the ancient Egyptians were circling around the cities in processions of decorations covered with flowers, in reverence and celebration of Mother’s Day. the beautiful".

Mother’s Day was a sacred celebration for them, as she is that person who is accustomed to sacrifice for free, to sacrifice for the happiness and satisfaction of her young, and to raise them in good morals, in a way that makes them good members in building society, to be described by the ancient Egyptians as “the flowing river of giving that does not dry up and does not complain.” He does not expect anything in return for what he does.”

The "Annie" papyrus... embodied obedience between mother and son

This papyrus is one of the most papyri that showed the extent of respect and sanctification of the mother among the ancient Egyptians, which showed the husband’s respect for his wife, obedience and listening to orders from the mother who gives advice to her son, on the belief that the Lord is the one who gave and granted her these countless blessings. It is similar to other living creatures in it, so that this papyrus bears witness to the great role played by the mother

. Magdy, that the Egyptians chose this time to celebrate Mother’s Day in the month of March “Khatoor” as it was called by the Pharaonic, specifically among the ancient Egyptians, a suitable timing for them in the Pharaonic eras because the land in the month of March is fertile and equipped to scatter seeds, an analogy of them, to the resurrection of life from New, like the mother is the river Nile that gives life and goodness.

And the extent of the sanctification of mothers among the ancient Egyptians, it came in their immortal sayings about the mother:-

“Put bread to your mother, for she bore you when you were young.”
“Mother is the gift of the earth.”

The celebration of Mother’s Day was neglected for many years, until it was returned again by the two brothers, Mustafa and Ali Amin, the founders of Akhbar Al-Youm. Ali Amin received a letter from a mother complaining to him of her children’s estrangement and mistreatment of her, and she suffers from their denial of the favor, and it happened that one of the mothers visited Mustafa Amin was in his office, and she told him that she was widowed and her children were young, and did not marry, and gave her life to her children, until they graduated from university and got married, and each of them took his life, and they did not visit her except at very distant intervals. A mother's day, encouraged by his brother, Ali Amin, and letters that strongly supported the idea, and the majority of readers agreed with it, and participated in choosing March 21 as the day to celebrate Mother's Day.