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  1. The Egyption year consisted of twelve months 
  2. of 30 days each, called the civil or vague
  3. year an extra 5 days were added at the end in
  4. honour of the birth of certain Gods. They
  5. also had the Sothic year which was 365 1/4 
  6. days, this year began when sirius rose for
  7. the first time.
  8.