#anaputuwet

[theheartroad]

I am regaining so much faith in my kemetic pagan community, every time I see someone standing up for social justice and treating people like, omg, people, and actually being aware of the larger social effects of people’s actions and politics (or “lack” thereof) in our ma’at based kemetic paganism.

[awitchybee]

Kemetic Deity Exchange: A Moment With Ra

Forgive me if I’m not making any sense. For some reason I’ve been pretty exhausted all day so I may word things strangely. For the Kemetic Deity Exchange, I got Ra from @arachnospooky. I was pretty excited because I’m always happy to give Ra a little offering here and there. I have a very familial relationship with the Netjeru, often considering my Gods to be somewhat like parental or aunt/uncle-like figures. (A good example of this is Mafdet being like a lovably crazy vodka aunt and Anpu being a father figure) And for me, Ra is like a grandfather of sorts. Maybe it’s related to his role as the Father of the Gods, I’m not sure. Either way, that’s the vibe I get from him. A caring, outgoing granddad. I don’t know if this makes much sense... I’m rambling, lemme just carry on, lol. @arachnospooky wanted me to offer a devotional activity to Ra, and suggested some things like watching the sunrise, making sun puns or looking into how the sun affects my area. (Wanna know how the sun affects my region? It doesn’t. I live in Ireland. It’s always raining. I think it’s a little shady, but...) I did manage to catch a glimpse of the sunrise a few days ago when I went out to greet Ra, though!

Apologies that it’s a little blurry. Isn’t it lovely, though? I went outside then and said hello as He rose. It was rainy and windy today, and I decided to pour a ritual bath, and while it was pouring, a little bit of sunlight peeked through for a moment, so I like to thin He was there. Now, I don’t have a statue of Ra, but I do have a gold necklace of a falcon which I wear and dedicate to him. So, to make up for a lack of an idol, I wore the necklace today and put on make up as an offering with blue eyeshadow to represent the blue skies when the Sun shines, with green shadow under my eyes because I’m nerdy and wanted to represent photosynthesis occuring with solar radiation to represent the green grass on sunny days. I then prepared some offerings, lit some Frankincense & Myrrh incense, and set up the gifts:

My shrine with offerings for Ra. (I invited the other Netjeru to share as well, since I left the offerings by their statues. Also, those of you who are wondering where my Bast statue is, she has her own place now for a while!) Rooibos tea, an orange, toffee, raspberry and orange chocolates, a bit of polish halva, a shot of orange juice and a Pepsi with Amaretto. I prayed a little bit, then I played some hymns and sat at my shrine researching the Sun. (I’m a bit of an amateur astrophysicist[note: Unlike the Sun, I have 0 degrees and it is merely a hobby] so this was exciting because I got to nerd out while spending some time with Ra) I had just filled up my personal astronomy research diary recently so I decided that my new one should start off with a page of random facts about the Sun. I filled the first page up with what I knew and with some things which I will want to research in more depth in the future. So, I’m super thankful that Ra had motivated me to start filling yet another empty journal. It allows me to further see the Sun in a new light.

It was, overall, a nice day spent reflecting with Ra, Father of the Gods, and I hope He’s pleased with His offerings and my research. To end the day, before sleep, I will do a small nighttime exercise routine which I call my sunset routine. I hope this is more or less what you had in mind @arachnospooky, and thank you to @anaputuwet for organising this and to both of you for motivating me to get up off my lazy spoonie ass and actually do some proper devotional stuff. It was fun and I really enjoyed it and was left feeling positive. Best wishes to y’all for 2018. ♥

[kemeticcalloutsfromthepublic]

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Original post located here.

@anaputuwet

We would like to begin by saying this is so offensive to the followers of Djehuty.  Followers who are correct, intelligent, well informed, educated and continue to educate themselves and understand the material.  We cannot believe they are getting lumped in and called “shitty” because a bunch of whiny internet fools, who don’t understand their own political slants, make some arbitrary judgement.

Those “shitty kemetics™” understand the historical contexts of the religion though and their arguments and information are salient and correct.  We understand it must be hard for you to argue with someone smarter then you.  We understand the sjw kemetics™ are anti-intelligence and pro-hivemind, but this is absurdly offensive.  Attacking all of the God of Wisdom and Knowledge’s followers...all of whom are well read, informed, educated, and understand the academic materials they source...know whats up.  You assume they must be bumbling idiots because they don’t agree with your reductive ideological arm-wavey yelling at the sky in helplessness.  You’re a bunch of anti-education and anti-intellectuals.  All of which is the antithesis of Djehuty.

“maybe claimging Djehuty as their god gives them an inherent sense of correctness??”

No, we must inform you, being well read, knowing wtf they are talking about, and constantly learning new things, gives them that correctness.  Because they are correct.  They studied the material and understand it.  Read what they say about Djehuty, he takes care of them, encourages them to read, to study, to grow.  They do, they keep doing it.  They keep learning and growing. 

It’s not a twisted opinion to say “you are wrong in this, here is why____, here’s my sources for why you are wrong” and you don’t like it because you can’t argue against their points.  You’re just mad because you can’t mental gymnastics your ways out of the argument to be right, even after moving the goalposts.  The followers of Djehuty value learning, education, reading, and expanding their minds.  You value reduction of the mind to a narrow myopic view where you can never be wrong.  We need to point out, followers of Djehuty, when proven wrong, learn from it and grow, and correct themselves when they see they were wrong, you and your bedfellows tell trans people their fears aren’t real and spent YEARS harassing the same people you STILL can’t prove wrong...by claiming they must be shitty.

We must say to Djehuty, we are sorry these reductive knowledge hating kids try to attack your people.

--Memphis

This is such a horrendously awful thing to say that words fail me.  There is so much wrong and so many wrong assumptions it almost physically hurts.

Followers of Djehuty, as we have observed, are drawn to scholarly texts and tend to be extremely well read on matters pertaining to Ancient Egypt.  They claim inherent correctness because they’ve done the research and are correct.

It’s almost like followers of the god of wisdom and knowledge value correct information or something.

--Cairo

[so-sobek]

Commissioned @anaputuwet for some soft pink casual Sobek aka how he likes to rush in to my dreamscape when I’m getting a bit Extra™️ I’m so happy with this dudes it’s the perfect concerned crocdad vibe go get ur godly arts from @anaputuwet u won’t be disappointed

[kemetkitten]

@anaputuwet and @lunaticonthenile I'm pulling you both aside for some talkin'. What does Khonsu like in terms of offerings (food or votive, doesnt matter) and what is his personality like? I got signs from him telling me I should remember the times as a child and watch more of the old shows in those days. I know the wepwawet wiki has offerings listed but no incenses, flowers etc. so I wanna ask you both that. It may help not only me but also others who want to worship Khonsu or who wanna learn about him!