In an ideal world

[kiya]

In an ideal world I would have a nice textual reference or two for the Beautiful Festival of the Valley right now, with original-source translations of relevant texts.

Does anyone in LJ-land have guidance for how I might approach an ideal world?

Alas.

Comments

[seshemherkekew.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure exactly what it is you're looking for, but I know that the book Eternal Egypt has a ritual based off of the texts for the Beautiful Fest. I would imagine that looking into the books made by this person:
http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Egyptian-Literature-Middle-Kingdoms/dp/0520248422/ref=pd_sim_b_3
might have something in them as well.

Hopefully that's along the lines of what you're looking for.
-Devo

Perhaps I misunderstand what you're looking for...

[donperros.livejournal.com]

http://books.google.com/books?q="Beautiful+Festival+of+the+Valley"&btnG=Search+Books

Valley of the KingsThe Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, which seems to mention it in passing but looks good as a reference. ;-)

Re: Perhaps I misunderstand what you're looking for...

[donperros.livejournal.com]

Awesome. LJ totally blew this up. Serves me right for not previewing. [After previwing this: Also, LJ's preview sucks. It has some weird bug where the first preview is broken.]

That should have been:

_Valley of the Kings_, by Kent R. Weeks, et al, seems to go into some detail, although not being an Egyptologist, I cannot speak to the rigor.

Also, Google's first hit was _The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt_, which seems to mention it in passing but looks good as a reference. ;-)