The Jackal Eats Rice

The blog of a beginning Shinto practitioner, and Kemetic-Lite.

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About The Jackal

General: 37, white British, in the UK, disabled, neurodivergent, queer and genderqueer.

Spiritual: Baby Shinto practitioner, honouring Amaterasu-Omikami, and Inari-Okami (in several forms).

Also a long-time (though lower key now) Kemetic, primarily honouring Wepiu and Hethert-Amenti. Still loosely a member of Kemetic Orthodoxy, but only loosely. My (currently defunct) blog for that is jackalbones.

Note about the blog name: I have ARFID and rice was not a safe food for me. When I started approaching Shinto, I knew that would have to change. I started trying it in small amounts and in different ways, and now I not only eat it, I enjoy it. It's a huge achievement for me, done in devotion to kami-sama. Next step - rice cooker!

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I had a tiny burst of energy and thought a woven band might be nice as an offering for Kami-sama. I have one across my Kemetic shrine and it's really lovely there.

I have been looking for ones that give me vibes of growing rice, and modifying them in a draft editor to see if they work.

This one is based on this pattern. I like it, but it has no direction changes, so I'd have to suddenly reverse the pattern when the twist got too intense. I don't think I'd like that but it's a nice pattern.

And then there's this one (based on this pattern), which would have less of a twist issue, but looks a lot more complicated than any I've tried in the past.

It also might be too wide for my current loom, which would certainly help my decision or make me buy a new loom oh ho ho