#qerneru

[a-book-of-creatures]

The eclipse is happening today because we have failed in our faith as a society. We no longer believe the way we once did, and thus this is happening as a sign and things will be going downhill rapidly unless we repent and change our ways.

In penance I will be reading from the Book of Overthrowing Apep, focusing on the passages Fettering Apep, Spitting on Apep, Trampling on Apep with the Left Foot, Taking the Knife to Smite Apep, Taking the Lance to Smite Apep, and Putting Apep on the Fire.

I hereby curse Apep, he who is also known as Am, Amam, Beteshu, Hemhemti, Hem-taiu, Iubani, Saatet-ta, Khermuti, Kenememti, Iubau, Karau-anememti, Khesef-hra, Hau-hra, Khak-ab, Khan-ru… uaa, Kharubu the Four Times Wicked, Nai, Nesht, Qerneru, Qettu, Sau, Seba-ent-seba, Sheta, Serem-taui, Sekhem-hra, Turrupa, Tutu, Uai, and Unti.

May Ra survive this and return to us unscathed.

[gotojobin]

Apep #Apep #Āpep #Āapep #Aaapef #Apophis #Rerek #furthernamesfromthePapyrusofNesiAmsulistedbyBudgeareNesht #Tutu #Hauhra #Hemhemti #Qettu #Qerneru #Iubani #Amam #Hemtaiu #Saatetta #Khermuti #Kenememti #Sheta #Seremtaui #Sekhemhra #Unti #Karauanememti #Khesefhra #Sebaentseba #Khakab #Khanruuaa #Nai #Am #Turrupa #Iubau #Uai #KharubutheFourTimesWicked #Sau #Beteshu Apep, Āapep, or Apophis in Greek, is the chief chthonic monster in the Egyptian cosmogony, born during the dark times of the First Intermediate Period and depicted as an enormous serpent with winding coils or alternatively as a giant crocodile, or with a human head and hands as in the Stele of Taqayna. He is described as being a hundred and twenty cubits (55 meters) long, or otherwise thirty cubits (14 meters) long, with the first eight cubits made of flint and with coils like sandbanks, lying on a sandbank 450 cubits (205 meters) long. Apep is darkness, cloud, wind, rain, mist, and storm. The antithesis of light and life, his primary goal is the destruction of the sun god Ra and his solar barque, causing the elimination of light and day and the victory of chaos and darkness. Assisted by a retinue of lesser demons and serpents – the mesu betshet or “children of rebellion”, the snakes Seba, Af, and Nak, and the crocodile Seshsesh – he hides under the earth and below the horizon, and attempts to swallow Ra’s barque every night. Ra, aided by his cortège of gods, thwarts Apep’s attempts time and time again, allowing the sun to rise once more. Occasionally Apep gains the upper hand, causing storms, earthquakes, and solar eclipses, but those end as Ra is cut free from Apep’s stomach. The serpent’s inevitable fate is to be chopped up into pieces and cast back into the abyss, but he always returns the following night, as full of malice and venom as ever, in an endless cycle of destruction.