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An emissary of Sekhmet greets the dawn at an old temple.

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Another Egyptian god! I really loved drawing the water lilies ^^

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Nebhet, mother of my beloved!

Happy Epag! My Mourning Vulture, how protective you are.

Nebhet watches over, a silent protector of sorts.

The Compassionate One, she mourned with Aset over Ausir's death, shared pain by sisters.

You love Sutekh, in all his wildness, his power, and fear-inducing presence.

How kind you are, a confident of all.

Dua!

#nebhet #neb-het #kemetic #kemetic paganism

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Prayer to Aset asking protection

Recite it four times

Aset flaps with her wings, and closes the mouths of the river. She makes the fish lie on the surface of the river, so that the waves don’t get it wet. When the water is peaceful, Aset hovers over the water, and cries when the water goes down. When Heru slept with his mother, And his tears fell in the water, When the mouth of the cynocephalus fills with fish, it fills the mouth of the stellar God. When Aset conjures, the crocodiles are inactive. Protection! Come to me, protection!

Excerpted from Harris Magical Papyrus, from its French translation by François Chabas.

#aset #heka #prayer #kemetic #kemetic paganism

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ancient Egyptian deities

#kemetic #kemetic art #anubis #yinepu #ra #set #thoth #djehuty #sobek #bast #bastet

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Love Languages in my work with the Netjeru

Anyone else find that their love languages influence how they work with the Netjeru? My main love language with others is giving gifts, and I’ve noticed that I have a lot of interactions with the Netjeru centered around that. I often grab small things in the store that remind me of them to give as gifts. I frequently have ideas about things to make for them that I will also give as an offering. My apartment is full of things I’ve bought or made for them as a gift. Which makes sense, since I feel such a strong connection to them and I want to convey how much they mean to me. Just wanted to share and see if anyone else has a similar experience with this type of thing.

#kemetic #kemetic paganism

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Min, the Ancient

Min is the god of male fertility, but he’s also a rainmaker, a protector in the desert, a god who smites evil forces, and a defender of travelers and roads. His topical representations, with the erect phallus, very descriptively depicts Min’s link with the male procreative capacity and his power to banish the evil with it. This quality also made Min relate in Egyptian civilization with many other ideas, like smiting, destroying and banishing evil and, especially, with the agrarian world.

Worshiped as a force of seeds and germination, especially wheat, and was equally protective of livestock. This made the cult of Min, in theory, favor both human pregnancies, as well as good harvests and the reproduction of cattle. The bull, a traditional symbol of fertilizing power and vital propagation, was one of its associated symbols; but also lettuce, specifically aphrodisiac in ancient Egypt, was one of its emblems.

It is known that Min was worshiped in Egypt since ancient times, around 3300 BC, in the city of Koptos, where sculptures were made that show the god.

But it could even happen that Min was documentable in older periods, if we consider a petroglyph represented in the Wadi Umm Salam, in the eastern desert, that some investigations date as contemporary to Naqada I (ca. 4000-3500 BC).

While it is true that the dating of many of these documents on rocks in the desert is disputed and that in some areas representations of very different times overlap, the image in question seems that it could be framed in a larger scene, in which they appear animals like giraffes and ostriches. But it is debatable, because very close there are images that may correspond to the New Kingdom.

The representation shows a figure with an erect penis and two long ostrich feathers on the head as a crown, which are distinctive of Min. It does not show a raised arm, which is a characteristic gesture of the pharaonic god, but, interestingly, he is presented as a shepherd who takes care of a cow that is tied with a rope, that is why some researchers identify him as “cow protector god”. Actually, these representations of shepherds caring for animals, which also bear long ostrich feathers as an ornament on the head, are not rare among the petroglyphs in the desert considered typical of the Predynastic, but they do not occur in the later iconography of the god. Although the true exceptionality lies in the resemblance of this petroglyph with the iconography that for thousands of years identified Min, and if this depiction is really from a remote chronology, some attributes of the god’s iconography could already be here, as well as some of its symbolic powers. Min’s depictions antiquity, if the chronology is validated, would be then extraordinarily ancient.

Bibliography

-F. LANKESTER, Rock Art in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, Oxford (2013).

-T. WILKINSON, Genesis of the Pharaohs, London, (2003).

- “Some Notes on the Iconography of the God Min”, published in the Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar of New York 7 (1985/6), 29-41 + 9 ill.

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May the strength of the Netjeru be with you on this day!

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Proud of all of you who fight hard. You are amazing and strong and you can do this <3

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Hymn to Taweret 𓎃

O Magnificent Taweret, Great One of Magic Praise to Your name! May You never be forgotten! May the offerings to You never cease their flow! May You always be victorious, Great One Who Drives Out Evil! Powerful One, Who Knows Compassion, Satisfied One, Who Arrives in Beauty

I call to you, Mistress of the House to ask for your blessings If You so see fit purify this home from all is/fet If You so please protect my loved ones from all dangers Bless us, Sweet Mother, with love, understanding, patience and good communication Make us grow and prosper, Great Mother who is in the Nile. Hear my plea Lady of Heaven, Mistress of Food, Eye of Ra Effective in Your Power.

#tawaret #kemetic #kemetic paganism

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Statue of the goddess SEKHMET (Thebes, 1964) [X]

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An emissary of Bast reminds you that you are loved. Look up and see the beauty that surrounds you.

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She is Justice

Eternal is her name,

In which, we stand against isfet.

The great destroyer of plagues,

I beseech thee,

Protect those who fight for Ma’at.

She who burns eternally,

Who’s divine flame consumes her enemies

May your light prevail.

In light of the global pandemic and the protests in America, I felt a need to pray to my goddess for my friends, family, and the righteous back home. It’s difficult to watch all this from a distance. I believe we all need her support in these times, and I have never felt more distant from her...

#sekhmet #BLM #kemetic #kemetic paganism #Kemetic art

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☀️Anubis☀️

Traditional media for the BLM fundraiser commissioned by @inukisama

~please do not repost or remove caption thanks~

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Large statue of HORUS at his temple in EDFU

#horus #kemetic

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~ Relief with an Offering Scene.

Date: 13th-11th centuries B.C.

Medium: Limestone

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I woke up this morning with Big O on the mind. Not surprising since I went to bed thinking about him, but as I stepped out into the yard, I found myself wandering over to the bog that abuts our backyard.

It's filled mostly with thick mud after a week's worth of rain. The ferns are doing well after the off and on downpours, sprouting and growing as they should. But as I studied the mud, I wondered if this was exactly what it must have once looked like in Ancient Egypt when the life-giving silt of the Nile had finally arrived.

The point of these thoughts brought me back to the renewal of the earth that I had done during the Beautiful Reunion. There's a connection there. I'm not sure what it is though because it felt like my thoughts jumped mightily from "black silt of the Nile" to "renewal of the earth". There's something or some things between these two ideas that I have to find to properly leapfrog from A to B.

I'll find them eventually.

#kemetic #kemetic paganism #osiris #wesir