Coronation & Accession of the King

When an Egyptian king came to the throne, his accession was marked by ritual: he took up his royal names (the fivefold titulary), was crowned with the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt, and symbolically united the Two Lands, so that order was renewed at the start of his reign. The dead king became Osiris and the new king the living Horus, making each accession a re-enactment of the divine succession. This is the beginning-of-reign rite — not to be confused with the Sed-festival, the jubilee of renewal held only after long years of rule.