#Kemetic holiday

[eyes-of-ra]

Prayer to Ra for the Sailing Feast

Ra, Lord of the Sun!

Guardian of the Heavens, Ruler of the Netjeru!

Ra, Lord of the Horizon!

We call upon you,

Mighty in your glory as the sun sets!

Magnificent in your splendor as the sky fills with fire!

Each evening you descend to do battle with the forces of isfet,

And each morning you rise again, triumphant!

Ra, your powerful Daughters,

Bast and Sekhmet: your Avenging Eyes,

They join you in the barque this night,

They join you sailing into the Duat.

We have prepared this boat for your going,

We have prepared this food and drink for a feast before you embark.

We will revel as the sun sets!

Great Ra, you will triumph during the night,

And in the morning we will search for your boat on the horizon,

As you and your Eye-Daughters sail in your boat to other places

As you three are honored and feasted again and again!

Most Glorious Ra, in three days' time

When you return on the boat with your Eye-Daughters

When you come back to this Temple with Bast and Sekhmet

We will welcome you back with more feasting and revels!

[blackbackedjackal]

Hi jackal! I remember you posted something a long time ago about following or choosing gods (I think it was Egyptian gods?) I was curious about it and was wondering what it was like and your experience. Sry if I got info wrong lol it's been awhile also sry if it's a private thing to talk about ;-;

Hello! I'm Kemetic and work with Anpu. I predominantly do rituals that involve the animals I work on for taxidermy (to ensure the animals are OK with me preserving their remains and that they know their remains will be respected) c:

[kemetic-dreams]

The Three Degrees, singing trio, Sheila Ferguson, Valerie Holiday and Fayette Pinkney, in their belly-baring tops and flares.

[7serendipities]

Kemetic Sailing Holiday

This is the last of the big liturgies that I am writing for Bast and Sekhmet as I wrap up my work for them, my oaths fulfilled. I’ve said before that I’m being released from their service, and while I will probably still post on tumblr for Wep Ronpet and reblog the occasional post, I expect this to be the last Kemetic blog post here.

I’ve done the sailing holiday a couple of different ways in the past, but after really digging into The Ancient Egyptian Daybook, a volume of research by Tamara L. Suida (of Kemetic Orthodoxy/House of Netjer) which includes information from a ton of ancient sources all gathered into one place, I decided to use a set of festivals with spring timing, and sort of condense them into four nights/four days (which ends up being five calendar days) in the early spring. Or, in the Kemetic calendar, IV month of Peret, days 1-5. Since the Kemetic calendar starts with the heliacal rise of Sirius heralding the new year, IV Peret generally starts the first week of March around here. On IV Peret 1 (March 7th) I celebrated the Feast of Ra and the Presentation of the Boat, and I wrote a prayer for the occasion:

FEAST-PRAYER TO RA FOR THE PRESENTATION OF THE BOAT

Ra, Lord of the Sun! Guardian of the Heavens, Ruler of the Netjeru! Ra, Lord of the Horizon! We call upon you, Mighty in your glory as the sun sets! Magnificent in your splendor as the sky fills with fire! Each evening you descend to do battle with the forces of isfet, And each morning you rise again, triumphant!

Ra, your powerful Daughters, Bast and Sekhmet: your Avenging Eyes, They join you in the barque this night, They join you sailing into the Duat. We have prepared this boat for your going, We have prepared this food and drink For a feast before you embark. We will revel as the sun sets!

Great Ra, you will triumph during the night, And in the morning we will search for your boat on the horizon, As you and your Eye-Daughters sail in your boat to other places As you three are honored and feasted again and again!

Most Glorious Ra, in three days' time When you return on the boat with your Eye-Daughters When you come back to this Temple with Bast and Sekhmet We will welcome you back with more feasting and revels!

The “boat” I presented was a red origami boat, a votive offering, though the bread for the feast I baked from scratch! I offered that with a cup of red wine for the Feast of the Presentation of the Boat, and my family then ate the bread with dinner to revert the offering and receive the blessings.

After the feast, I covered my statues, to represent the goddesses leaving on the boat. For the next four mornings, I moved the boat to a new location in my shrine room, moving sunwise as it left the shrine and then on the last day, came closer. I’m posting this today in the morning, but tonight I’ll move the boat all the way back to the shrine, and remove the covering from my statues, to represent their return.

As I’ve also incorporated the historical holidays “Chewing Onions for Bast” and “Chewing Cucumbers for Sekhmet” into the return feast, tonight with dinner I’ll be making a cucumber salad with onions, goat cheese, fresh herbs, and a homemade vinaigrette dressing, and I’ll offer that along with more wine and the following prayer I wrote:

PRAYER FOR THE RETURN FEAST OF CUCUMBERS AND ONIONS

Eyes of Ra, Daughters of the Sun! Great Ladies of the East and West! We welcome you home to your temple, Triumphantly returning as the sun sets! 

For four nights you have travelled on the solar barque You have sailed with Ra into the Duat At his side, as his Avengers and Protectors You have fought isfet and you have been victorious! 

For four days you have sailed to other lands To be welcomed and feasted by others And now you return to your temple And we will feast and revel this night! 

We have prepared food and drink for you; We feast to celebrate your returning Vegetables and cheese, herbs and vinegar, We have made a special meal for this occasion. 

Bast, we chew onions for you! Sekhmet we chew cucumbers for you!

Please feel free to use these prayers in your own practice! I just ask that you give me credit if you’re using them for a group ritual, and please don’t reproduce them elsewhere without a link. If you want to show your appreciation by tipping me, you can always Buy Me a Coffee!

[saryoak]

Oct 9 - Feast of Divive Wisdom

Today is the start of an important 2 day feast honouring the deities of wisdom from every culture. The holiday is celebrated by leaving deity and holiday related items on your altar, engaging in intellectual or wise pursuits, and of course the feast. Good general offerings today include -

Books you're currently reading

Books you want to read

Non fiction interests represented by an obect (eg if you'd like to learn coding you could leave a laptop or your phone on the altar)

Insence

Blue white and silver gemstones, candles, decorations

Water to represent clarity of mind

Deities to worship -

Athena

Apollo

Odin

Thoth

Isis

Anahit

Quetzalcoatl

Papa Legba

Ogma

Wenchan Wang

Saraswati

Ganesha

Benzaiten

Fukurokoju

Tenjin

Enki

Hnaska

Hununpa

Mimir

Frigg

Anahita

Anulap

Egeria

Gamayun

Anansi

[loly945]

A secret call to all Mermaids around 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 taken by me

[navelgazed]

Wep Ronpet hype real

[reno-matago]

Kemetic polytheists should absolutely play Assassins Creed Origins! The temple of Zeus Serapis in Alexandria (there are greek gods too) and Sekhmet are a-ma-zing. And the landscapes are.. 🫠It gives an idea of what these beautiful cities looked like.

You can almost feel the sun on your skin and oh- there is a lesbian love story inside, and a message pro-diversity when you start playing 🪷

Can't wait to buy Odyssey!

[thesacredabstract]

✨ Happy Winter Solstice! ✨ Happy She is Led Back! ✨ Happy Establishment of the Celestial Cow! ✨ Happy Star Festival! ✨ Happy Holidays! 💙

[eyes-of-ra]

Update/Announcement:

Hey so, this year I'm doing the Sailing Holiday on March 7-11, starting with the Feast of Ra And The Presentation of The Boat, and then three days of sailing procession and then the Feast of The Eyes on their return as both Chewing Onions For Bast and Chewing Cucumbers For Sekhmet and hopefully I'll be able to get all the prayers written & shared at least on the day-of if not ahead of time, and I'm gonna come up with some kind of easy recipe for the Chewing as well and I think I'm gonna make some kind of flatbread for the Feast of Ra. Uncertain how historical that would be but also my household is largely gluten-free and that makes it a lot easier to make flatbreads than domed artisan loaves!

I would start on the prayers now but I've got an article to finish writing first which is due March 6, so it might be a squeeze if I can't get that knocked out in the next few days. We'll see I guess. But this is the last holiday that I still need to write liturgy for to fulfill my oaths to Bast & Sekhmet, and after that... maybe I'll like self publish the booklet somewhere, idk, but the prayers etc will remain on here for free as long as tumblr doesn't implode.

[thegodstheycall]

In over a decade of working with the Netjeru, holidays have never been a big feature of my practice (which I think is mostly a reflection of my family's relationship with holidays in general), but finally starting to celebrate Wep Ronpet these last few years and actually finding the date when Sirius rises in my area has gotten me thinking about localizing more Kemetic holidays.

[chthonic-sorcery]

PSA for new Pagans❗️🚩🚩🚩

(Overlooked pagan holidays)

Paganism isn't a singular religion,

it is an umbrella term for thousands of different pre-christian polytheistic faiths that span Antiquity. Heathenry (Norse polytheism) Mesopotamian, Phonecian, Hellenic Polytheism, Kemeticism/Netjerism, Slavic Polytheism, Celtic, Roman, Basque, etc. It goes on and on. Sometimes, these religions are even combined or synchronized, like Greco-Egyptian polytheism.

So, no, not all pagans celebrate Yule, or Beltane, or whatever.

Yule itself seems to be more of a Wiccan (new age) revival than a continued tradition.

There are quite literally thousands of holidays and traditions celebrated that no one talks about because people, especially newer converts, seem to believe paganism is its own singular religion.

So, here are some of my favorite holidays I celebrate that aren't usually talked about:

The Anthesteria:

A 3 day drunken celebration in honor of Dionysus and the Dead. Houses would be decorated with spring flowers, ghosts swept from the home; feasting and drinking no matter your status, and offerings given to the Dead and the Furies so that may not harm you, as they were said to roam the earth at this time.

Tar/pitch was also spread onto doorframes and black hellebore was hung to protect the home.

It was held each year from the 11th to the 13th of the month of Anthesterion, around the time of the first full moon of the year.

The Haloea:

The closest Greek equivalent of "Yule" celebrating the winter solstice and which honored Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, crops, fertility, and harvest.

During the festival, people would celebrate by preparing a rich meal with dough cakes in the shape of genitalia, telling lusty jokes and swearing with vulgarity, singing, drinking, and dancing.

The festival took place in Athens and ended in Eleusis during the month of Poseideon, which is December.

The Dionysia:

where plays originated! Comedy, tragedy, and drama.

The Festival of Dionysus, otherwise known as the “Greater Dionysia” took place in the spring (around our March) when playwrights would compete to entertain Athenian citizens,

complete with parades of giant phalluses and sacrifices of bulls!

The Feat of Sekhmet:

an annual festival at the beginning of the year, which began around August for the Egyptians following Wep Ronpet, or the New Year.

The festival was a time of drunkeness with red beer and wine, where Egyptians would dance, play music.

The goal was to imitate the drunkenness that had once stopped the goddess Sekhmet from destroying humanity.

According to Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet became so bloodthirsty from humanity betraying her father Ra, that she nearly destroyed all humans on Earth. The other deities asked Ra to stop her, and he eventually pacified her by making her believe the wine or beer was blood and she drank herself to sleep, turning into either Hathor or Bastet.

the Aphrodisia:

The festival of Aphrodite! The festival occurred during the month of Hekatombaion, which modern scholars recognize as starting from the third week in July to the third week of August.

the first ritual of the festival would be to purify the temple with the blood from a dove, the sacred bird of Aphrodite. Afterwards, worshipers would carry sacred images of the goddess, as well as Peitho, in a procession to be washed.

During the festival it was not permitted to make bloody sacrifices, since the altar could not be polluted with the blood of the sacrifice victims, which were usually white male goats.

This of course excludes the blood of the sacred dove, made at the beginning of the ritual to purify the altar. In addition to live male goats, worshipers would offer fire, flowers, and incense.

This was even celebrated in Thebes, Egypt, where Aphrodite had a large cult following.

Wep Ronpet:

Wep Ronpet is the Kemetic New Year.

It falls usually somewhere btwn late July and mid-August. The date for Wep Ronpet varies each year, as it is marked by the rising of Sopdet, modernly known as Sirius. Wep Ronpet is in fact one day long.

However, there are 5 days of excitement leading up to Wep Ronpet that we typically call the Epagomenal Days, or the Intercalary Days.

The Epag. days came about from a myth where Nut got pregnant with 5 kids. Ra got upset about this and forbade her from giving birth on any day of the year. Thoth, being the tricky guy that he is played a game of Senet with the moon, and upon winning this game of Senet, he received a small portion of the moon which he used to create an extra 5 days which she can use to birth her five children.

Traditionally, these days are said to be a little weird because they are ‘outside of the norm’. Usually great care was taken not to take too many risks.

So, each day is dedicated to the god that was born on that particular day. The order that it goes in is:

Osiris

Heru-wer (Horus the Elder)

Set

Aset

Nebhet (Nephthys)

Normally, celebrations of Wep Ronpet include prayers to Sekhmet against the 7 arrow or plagues of the year: libations and offerings to the Netjeru, song, dance, feast.

Ritual bathing for purification is sometimes done afterwards.

Personally, I like to perform execration, banishing all the illness, negativity and harm from the previous and coming year.

[bolszaja-miedwedica]

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-I'm genderfluid and audhd, borderline too (undiagnosed because the system sucks) and diagnosed schizophrenic

-godspoused! if you're anti fuck off

-I'm an age regressor but i curse a lot on this blog so age regressors feel free to follow my agere side blog @there-are-sharks-in-my-milk

-i don't discriminate anyone this is a safe space for minorities, poc, microlabels, systems, lgbt people, therians, everyone who is not a hateful jerk

-this blog is a mix of me posting about my deities, stray kids and other stuff i find interesting

-sometimes i vent make sure you're okay with it

blog rules are:

-if my practice looks different than yours and you don't like it you're free to unfollow

-if my vents annoy you and you feel the urge to tell me its my fault you're free to unfollow this is my shadow work free from censor space

-if you feel the need to tell me i seem psychotic you're free to fuck off

-don't fuckin curse me??? some of yall are not behaving and it's pissing me off

-other than that be kind and respectful to me and my friends

to interact with my blog make sure that you aren't:

racist, homophobic, terf, pedo, ableist, anti agere, a nsfw blog (it makes me uncomfortable), generally a hateful human

now the best part:

worshipping:

-Sekhmet

-Holy Mary

-Baba Jaga

-Medusa

-Kali

-Lilith

working with:

Marzanna, Apollo, Dionysus, Hecate, Persephone, Asclepius, Hel, Anat, Death, Satan, Leszy, Cernunnos, Horned God, Helios, Venus, Freyja, Asmodeus, Baphomet archangel Jophiel, Thoth, Fenrir, Dantalion, Buer, Beelzebub, Mut, Bes, Bacchus, Kogkipr (an unknown deity), Proserpina, Cnabetius Mars, Tegid Foel, angel Sariel, Hermanubis, Amun, Deimos and Phobos, Kvasir, Wepwawet, The Dagda, Swarożyc, Lucifer, Begotho (unknown deity), Aphrodite Areia, Stracchus (unknown deity), Ruadan, Somnia, Kek, Cerberus, Hestia, Nyx, Cerridwen, the Morrigan, Parvati, Shiva, Krishna, Vishnu, RadhaRani, Lakshmi, archangel Gabriel, archangel Azrael, Nakir and Munkar, archangel Michael, archangel Israphil, Kiram and Katibun, Somnus, Loki, Mokosz, Allah, Brigid, Hermes, Shakti, Anubis, Weles, Baldur, Khnum, Poseidon, Amphitrite, Astaroth, Neith, Wenut, Ganesha, Perun, Khepri, Inanna, Dola/Niedola, Ariadne, Jaryło, Chors, Sleipnir, Zorza, Jormungandr, Odin, Czarnobóg, Blodeuwedd, Set, Mafdet, Idunn, Seshat, Dziewanna, Artemis, Arioch, Eros, Vesna, Selene, Luna, Leviathan, Behemoth, Nox, Mammon, Abaddon, Azazel, Kathos, Vesta, Sun, Moon, Minerva, Athena, Eosphorus, Stolas, Melinoe, Mary of Magdala

spirits that i work with:

-Pahiri (a white dragon spirit)

-Nkfofa (the mermaid spirit guide)

-a fae

-Fienon (a rusałka)

-Mo Xasii (familiar nr 1)

-Hilkog (spirit guide)

-Kalina (a harpy)

-Zanota (a mermaid spirit guide nr 2)

-Gawoż (hydra, familiar nr 2)

- Kiityk (upiór spirit guide)

-Xyo (a red fire dragon)

-Bemamo (a dragon shark)

devoting to:

-King Hades

-Bastet

-Aphrodite

I'm not really a hellenic polytheist, nor a kemetic one, not really a slavic one as well although i am hyperfixated on slavic paganism, yes, and i do wanna work with more slavic deities in the future but I don't label myself as anything I'm just a witch and a pagan i celebrate the slavic holidays and my deities holidays because they're the closest to me. if i were to label myself i would use "rodzimowierca"? but I'm just a witch, and well apparently a medium now too so 😀 fun uhh

i do free readings too! 5 a day to not burn out so quick but i wanna get more skilled since divination is my favourite skill to get one just dm me tp ask if im open!

I'm planning to master:

-cartomancy

-herbology

-moon magic

-blood magic

-protection

-palmistry

-a crystal ball

-reading more books...

-my fuckin research motivation...

i can do:

-tarot

-clairvoyance

-clairaudience

-spells and shit

-rituals

-sigils

-tea blends i guess

-motanki

-scrying

-oracle

-runes (both nordic and witch's runes)

sława! :]

[purpleaqua8]

What esoteric, occult, or spiritual TV shows or movie recommendations do you suggest for people who are into esoteric knowledge? Regular shows can also contain hidden messages, so feel free to include those as well.

Some of my personal suggestions and favorites..

Inside Job (TV Show | Netflix) 

Midnight Gospel (TV Show | Netflix)

Manifest (TV Show | Netflix)

Supercell (TV Show | Netflix)

Charmed (Original & Reboot) 

Behind Her Eyes (TV Show | Netflix)

Triptych (TV Show | Netflix)

Entergalactic (Movie | Netflix)

The Princes & The Frog (Disney Movie) 

Moana (Disney Movie) 

Soul (Disney Movie) 

The Matrix (Movie) 

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[troutfur]

I think the horror movie twins au is very humorous. Perhaps it would be funny if when one is out of camp, the other always inexplicably faces the direction of them. If Ferncloud is alive during the broken code (I haven’t actually read it yet and I don’t remember if she is), she always faces Bramblestar. The clan chalks it up to ‘Well, Bramblestar is one of the only ones able to contact Starclan. Maybe Ashfur’s spirit met him up there and rubbed off on him a bit?’ But when Bramblestar starts syncing up with Ferncloud, they get a bit worried…

Oooh, what if in the interim while Ash is dead she was always facing to the sky, to a particular star? Or if Ash's star wasn't circumpolar and was one of the stars that was not visible above the horizon for a certain portion of the year sometimes she faced downwards?

(I've been thinking about stars and star movements today. I'm a Kemetic pagan and I'm in the middle of a holiday that has to do with stars. If you wanna know more, main @aerial-jace.)

ANYWAY, I've been rolling with Fern being alive for TBC but sadly canonically she was killed off in the OotS battle for perhaps the most infuriating out of universe reason. Fernie, they did you so fucking dirty.