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A hymn for Ptah in Middle Egyptian!

Beloved God of my beloved city. Let me know what you think of this hymn!

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Nut at zp tpy

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O' Mistress of the Heavens,

You arch over your lover,

covering the land in the embrace of your stars.

Your light firms my heart,

and my arms are raised towards the sky,

singing praise for the mother who cradles us all.

Dua Nut!

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Fish leap,

Birds cry,

The lush plants of the Nile grow green with your might,

O' Hapi,

He Who Brings the Flood

To you I raise me arms,

and sing dua of praise,

for you bring life to the land.

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Went to one of Cairo’s most beautiful botanical gardens (in reality it’s situated more in Giza than Cairo) and was able to sit beneath the sacred Sycamore of Nut. You can really see why these beautiful trees were renowned for their shade in the ancient texts!

Tried to get some seeds to plant for myself at home, but unfortunately I visited in an off-season where the tree is not producing seeds; and the caretakers do not store the seeds.

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A hymn to Horus in Middle Egyptian!

This one was really difficult for me. I had to rewrite the lyrics and re-record the song many times because I just couldn’t get it right… but I think the results are satisfactory. Let me know what you think!

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Nut as the Day Sky

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A hymn I wrote and recorded for Ra-Khepri-Atum. Translations by Ali Strnad.

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Aset and Wasir. Drew this sitting in the sanctuary at Philae, on the left wall.

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Predynastic lady - the ambiguity of her form has led to lots of different interpretations. Is she simply a lady with her arms raised? Does the strange hooked nature of her face mean that she has the head of a bird and the body of a woman? She has even been compared to the cow goddess, Bat, as her raised arms look a bit like cow horns and she is similarly shaped to the predynastic palette of Bat. Anyway, I like to think she's dancing.

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Visited Satet’s temple yesterday on Elephantine and brought a small offering of beautifully scented flowers and herbs.

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Neith the great, Mother of god, Lady of Esna, who creates rays of light, and dispels darkness; She who clothes the sun disk with her radiance, as she rises, so she illumined, and her luminosity allows one to perceive another. She is Nut of Akhty, he rises and he sets in her; being infinite, her limits are unknowable.

Excerpt from Esna 421 from The Temple of Esna. An Evolving Translation: Esna IV translated by David Klotz

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On Faith in Ancient Egypt...

Did the ancients believe in the Netjeru? Or was their religion just a performative construct to support the ruler and the elites around him?

How about the average person of the time? Any evidence of their religious practice?

This 2 hour recording of an intriguing talk by and with Dr. Paul Harrison reflects the findings and ongoing discussion and discernment in the field of Egyptology.

https://youtu.be/OZPnSbTTMVo

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Does anyone, ANYONE, have a list of Kemetic (Ancient Egptian) holidays and their dates?

I’m a Kemetic Pagan and it absolutely breaks my heart when I see people celebrating holidays that I either had no idea about or had no idea what day they were celebrated on.

I’ve researched but the resources are slim. And help would but so so appreciated🥺💖

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hii! i'm not a kemetic pagan at all but was just wondering about the "sn/ake deity" (Ap3p)(idk if its disrespectful to mention) of the pantheon. is it disrespectful to worship him? i remember watching an actual academic kemetic pagan talk about this but i lost the video. so, i saw a draconic witch work with them and say stuff like "i'm tired of pleasing other kemetics and i'm gonna do my own thing by worshipping the sn/ake". just want your opinion on that sorry if this is confusing i can clarify😭

It's that you specified because there are a lot of snake deities (Wadjet, Renenutet, Mehen, Meretseger, etc.) which are perfectly fine to worship (I would also argue that A/p/e/p isn't really a deity and there's some evidence that this is true historically (1), but enough scholarly sources call him that, so I understand why people refer to him as such). Generally, kemetic polytheists slash out his name in someway because of ancient practices to deface his name in someway as a way of removing his power (2). Generally it's considered polite to disrupt the name in online kemetic polytheist spaces.

Worshiping A/p/e/p is at best is disrespectful and at worse actively malicious. A/p/e/p is the force that fights against the Netjeru (gods) and seeks to bring about the end of the world. (3) (4) So by worshipping him one is seeking to destroy the entire universe and everyone and everything in it. And this is explicitly not a destruction and rebirth cycle. A/p/e/p seeks to unmake the world and brings about nonexsistance. (3) (4)

Here's some posts by other kemetic polytheists on A/p/e/p and worshipping him that you might find useful one of which go into detail on A/p/e/p as a manifestation of isfet which I didn't here since the concepts can be quite complicated and to me at least are secondary to A/p/e/p's intention of unmaking the universe: 1, 2, 3, 4.

References:

Morenz, Ludwig D. “Apophis: On the Origin, Name, and Nature of an Ancient Egyptian Anti‐God.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 63, no. 3, 2004, pp. 201–05, page 202.

Kousoulis, Panagiotis I. "Magic and Religion as a Preformative Theological Unity: the Apotropaic 'Ritual of Overthrowing Apophis'". 1999. pages 211-212.

Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. pages 221-221.

Hart, George. The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. pages 31-32.

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Hatmehyt, Foremost of Fish

Hi! How are all of you doing?

Today’s drawing is goddess Hatmehyt for @djar-em-rekh

ENJOY IT!

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I do sketches for $USD

Ask for 1 god/character/person doing whatever you want, I will practice anatomy while working on your drawing. Buy 3 and the 4th is free.

Send a message so I can give you my Paypal.

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I'm new here. Just wanted to leave art with Geb and Nut 🤌🤌 I love Egyptian mythology so much