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Hello!! If it's alright I want to ask for some help with my own deity identification spread, I originally wanted to find just who my soul parent is but I ended up getting a card that I didn't know the meaning to. TT
But anyway the cards I got for mine are:
1. Two of pentacles
2. The emperor
3. Death
4. Nine of swords
5. Two of swords
6. The empress
7. King of swords
9. Five of pentacles
My initial guess was a norse deity but now I have a feeling it's actually egyptian but if you'd think it's none of those please be my guest. (I'm really really confused)
Hi! Thanks for asking!
It seems like this deity has two domains/aspects that are very different. They have a very duality-like nature. When working with them, they will give you the best possible results, but sometimes it's not in the way you think. Considering the Emperor and Death card, it seems like this deity is masculine, a god. They rule over either death or some type of transformation / change. This deity seems to have a traditionally negative domain, that is often seen as taboo for us humans: death, nightmares, afterlife, dark energy and such! But they also have some "lighter" aspects that are often overlooked.
They also seem to have a feminine aspect of energy. Perhaps that feminine aspect is their consort???
Other than that, they are very fatherly, probably a very important, major god, and a chthonic god.
For the last card, i believe that this could mean that he is believed to bring bad things: poverty, drought, illness, etc! By the people who worshipped him!
Now, I don't know anything about norse polytheism. But i can help you with Egyptian and some other pantheons: Osiris, Thanatos, Hades, Anubis, Pluto, Veles, Chernobog, etc!
Sorry if i didn't help a lot! I tried my best lol ❤️❤️
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Hot take. But just because something is an open practice or religion, it doesn't mean you shouldn't look into the history and context of worship and respect the culture and rituals. Yes, even if you are an eclectic pagan.
Example, even if you just want to worship/work with Ra or Osiris, you should absolutely respect the 42 Laws of Maat. And if you are a greek polytheist, you should absolutely look into miasma and respect the customs when it comes to it as much as you can in modern day society. If you are a roman polytheist, you should cover your head during rituals (correct me if i am wrong on that one!).
Gods will also appreciate your effort to worship them accordingly in this society that looks down on pagan religions and waters them down to "mythology".
Of course, you don't have to do everything 100% the way it was done in ancient times, but it's the thought and effort that counts.It's NOT a great mindset that you can do whatever you want with open religions!
Egyptian Religious Calendar
Today 25 July 2019 - XXIV day of Ipet-Hemet, the eleventh month of the Egyptian Lunar Calendar (in the CDXX Great Year of Ra according to the Egyptian Civil Calendar). A reminder for the next days: the Epagomenal Days and the Heliacal Rising of Sothis/Sirius are approaching! August 1 2019 is the day of the Heliacal Rising of Sothis, and the five days preceding it (July 27-28-29-30-31 2019) are the Epagomenal Days dedicated to the celebrations for the birth of the Divine Sons of the Goddess Nut (Osiris, Horus the Ancient, Seth, Isis, and Nephthys). As regards the New Year of the Sothis-based Lunar Calendar, it will begin on the New Moon after the Heliacal Rising of Sothis, that is, August 30. For more informations, see my book “Egyptian Religious Calendar: CDXIX-CDXX Great Year of Ra (2019CE)”, where you will find the full version of the Egyptian Calendar with the complete translation of the Temples’ calendars: http://a.co/d/clZRHoW Furthermore, by subscribing to “AMENTE NOFRE-MEMBERSHIP COMMUNITY” you will get a complete access to the daily posts of the Ancient Egyptian Religious Calendar and to our online courses in Egyptology, here’s the link with all the infos: https://www.patreon.com/amentenofre Religious Prescriptions: Favorable day Religious Festivities: The XXIV day of the lunar month is sacred to Nut. It is the “Feast of the Shadows” and the Little Naw is the God of the Feast - “Holiday in the Temple of Sokar, in the Estate of Ptah, and those who are in this Estate are in great festivity, being healthy.” [c.c.] image: detail from the chapel of Sokar in the “Great Temple” of King Sethi I at Abydos: “Ptah-Sokar Who resides in the Temple of ‘MenMaatRa’(King Sethi I)”, holding the combined ‘Djed’-‘Ankh’-'Uas’ scepter, and “Sekhmet the Great, beloved of Ptah” (lioness-headed, wearing the Solar disk with the Uraeus)
Genderweird Anubis because I love He
A young Sutekh for us all. Lovely and powerful indeed.
Dua Sutekh! 🌩️
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Commission for Cy, featuring the Egyptian god of storms Sutekh / Set! Thank you so much, this was A BLAST and as always with this kind of work, I always end up learning so much! <3
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When I first read about this, I immediately thought about how much sense it makes. And how beautiful it is, when you think about it.
Thinking about the theory that Horus and Set were two of the first gods in the Egyptian pantheon and other gods were added around them later… and how them reconciling was always a consistent element even as the story changed from two brothers fighting for the throne to Horus avenging the death of his father… right up until the late period when people got uncomfortable with a foreigner god being so important in their pantheon and it changed to end with Set being cast out and kept weakened so he could never come back… a cycle of forgiveness eventually cut off by bigotry and hate…
Thinking about the desert (Image description: An image of the Sahara desert with a silhouette of the Egyptian God Sutekh, he has a glitched effect around his body with a lush green tree masked inside his silhouette. He appears to be holding a glowing orb depicting the sun. There is text from top to bottom which reads, "long ago my storms fed generations, who lay beside one another looking upon my endless night. but you must understand, you must understand, the world will tilt, the crops will wither, and the sun will swallow you all. many will not understand the purpose of a desert, they will reap what it sows while they curse it for its effort. You are not the first. You are not the last. You just are. Description end.)
The Kemetic Calendar: Months
It's really difficult to talk about and find a decent Egyptian calendar. So difficult that honestly, I've just created my own at this point.
The Egyptian calendar had 365 days, just like the modern western calendar. It consisted of three seasons with 120 days each, with an intercalary month of five epagomenal days to keep up with leap days. Each season was divided into four months of 30 days each.
Below are the seasons, and months.
Akhet (Flood). Roughly September to January in AE, but I celebrate it from January to May.
Month of Djehuty (Jan. 1-30)
Month of Pa'en-Opet (Jan. 31-Mar. 1)
Month of Hat-Hor (Mar. 2-31)
Month of Ka-Hor-Ka (Apr. 1-30)
Peret (Winter). Roughly January to May in AE, but I celebrate it from May to the end of August.
Month of Ta-ib (May 1-30)
Month of Makhir (May 31-Jun. 29)
Month of Pa'en-Amunhotepu (Jun. 30-Jul. 29)
Month of Pa'en-Renenutet (Jul. 30-Aug. 28)
Shemu (Summer). Roughly May to September, but I celebrate it from the end of August to the end of December.
Month of Pa-Khonsu (Aug. 29-Sep. 27)
Month of Pa'en-Inet (Sep. 28-Oct. 27)
Month of Apip (Oct. 28-Nov. 26)
Month of Mosu-Ra (Nov. 27-Dec. 26)
The Epagomenal Days. These were five days at the end of each year to help balance out leap days. After these days were done, the new year was celebrated. Each of these days celebrates the birth days of the deities they are named after. For me, they take place from December 27-31, although in Ancient Egypt they most likely would have taken place in late July/early August.
Meswet Wesir
Meswet Heru
Meswet Sutekh
Meswet Aset
Meswet Nebet-Het
Made this for Ra! Any young Kemetics out there?
Dua Sekhemet
Dua Ra
Dua Seshat
☀💛🖊📕
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This morning I prayed to all 3 of these gods for the first time. I always feel bad because I seem to always forget, I still am fairly new to this path but I wanna show the gods how dedicated I am and how much they've taught me so far.
Idk i just wanted to share that 💛🌿
lol, it's good, he said it was good, he told me so
i still don’t know how to draw him i’m sorry Sutekh
I was being taken to an old temple and looking over the hieroglyphs (this was in Egypt) and as the lady (idk who, it was goddess someone...srry) and as she trailed her hands over the words they started becoming colorful
Someone asked a good question yesterday that got me thinking: why are some mythologies more “mainstream” than others? Where I’m from, everyone knows at least a couple things about the Egyptian, Norse, and Greek (and sometimes Roman) pantheons, but no one’s ever discussed those of East Asia, or South America, for example.
My theory: Eurocentrism and colonialism.
Egypt, Greece, and Rome all have some relevant proximity to the history of Christianity. Egypt features prominently in the Exodus, and Greece and Rome were important cultural shapers in the time of Jesus and Paul. When Christianity spread and gained the force of empire through Constantine and others and spread up through Europe, it dominated nearly all the local traditions in its wake. This domination continued through the European colonization of the Americas, Africa, India, and others -- history is written by the colonizers, so it makes sense that the prominent revival pantheons among European-descended pagans aren’t those of the conquered people but those of their own people (Norse) and those that are “necessary” to provide historical weight to Christianity.
Completely conjecture, but this was interesting to think about today.
The first thing I’ve ever made in GIMP: “The Sekhmet Dialectic” - needed to process some spiritual concepts artistically.
That’s really interesting and something I hadn’t thought of; pagan traditions based on the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Norse pantheons really are solely revival traditions. It seems strange to me that those traditions that are still in practice would be the ones to be overlooked. I mean, there are LIVING PEOPLE that we can learn from and we (by we I mean a lot of European-descended people, myself included) choose the religions that have been in dormancy for centuries... it’s like we needed one more way to assert colonial dominance: not letting people of color be the experts or owners of any of our religions....
That went a little into rant territory, but your point is very well taken.
Someone asked a good question yesterday that got me thinking: why are some mythologies more “mainstream” than others? Where I’m from, everyone knows at least a couple things about the Egyptian, Norse, and Greek (and sometimes Roman) pantheons, but no one’s ever discussed those of East Asia, or South America, for example.
My theory: Eurocentrism and colonialism.
Egypt, Greece, and Rome all have some relevant proximity to the history of Christianity. Egypt features prominently in the Exodus, and Greece and Rome were important cultural shapers in the time of Jesus and Paul. When Christianity spread and gained the force of empire through Constantine and others and spread up through Europe, it dominated nearly all the local traditions in its wake. This domination continued through the European colonization of the Americas, Africa, India, and others – history is written by the colonizers, so it makes sense that the prominent revival pantheons among European-descended pagans aren’t those of the conquered people but those of their own people (Norse) and those that are “necessary” to provide historical weight to Christianity.
Completely conjecture, but this was interesting to think about today.
my altars for bast and persephone ! 𓋹
I need to have an Egyptian mythology phase the way I have an obsessive fascination with Greek mythology and have had since the first Percy Jackson movie came out despite never getting into Percy Jackson someone give me a neat little book about the sun god or lettuce or mummies to curl up with on the beach