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fyrekat in kemet

New resource for Kemetics!

Feb 10, 2010 15:04

Hey folks!

There's a new book out! I'm extremely excited about it, and wanted to share. It's called Eternal Egypt, and it's a collection of ancient Egyptian rituals translated from temple walls and presented in a way which is immediately useful to the Kemetic reconstructionist. In fact, it's written by one of our own- but with an eye for ( Read more... )

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luwana February 11 2010, 02:07:59 UTC

Wow, that is exciting! Even if the rituals are closer to the traditional (and thus difficult), it's a baseline from which to make reasonable changes.

I've been wishing there was something like this for a while. Great stuff :D

fyrekat February 14 2010, 23:28:38 UTC

Yay!:) Yes, I think you may be surprised at how much can easily be worked into a simple, personal devotion- especially when it's done gradually. But even if it's not practical in someone's schedule to do a full ritual, there is still great inspiration here and it's useful to see what the rituals looked like in their more complete versions. As you say- it provides a baseline. My daily practices draw heavily from this resource now, although it's usually an abbreviated form unless it's a special festival day. But it is incredibly wonderful to finally *have* something special that I can do on those important days!!!

tea_holic February 11 2010, 06:11:50 UTC

Eeeeee~!!! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing!! I know a few people (besides myself) who are going to excitedly FLIP when I show them this!!

star_tear February 13 2010, 01:48:48 UTC

whoa, I didn't know you were in this community! I see you often in solitary wiccans. Nice to see a familiar face :D

fyrekat February 14 2010, 23:29:42 UTC

You are most welcome!! It's about time we got something like this, lol.

enbibibast February 11 2010, 19:29:28 UTC

Very cool. I won't be at Pantheacon on monday (I'm leaving on Sunday. Boo.) But I've gone ahead and ordered a copy. Thanks for the link. :)

fyrekat February 14 2010, 23:36:36 UTC

I'm glad that you at least get to go for some of it- many, many people weren't. There seems to be a good sized crowd in attendance this year, but it's no where near as large as it's been in years past. Perhaps that's why I found so much nice stuff in the vender's room, though- lol! Not as much competition!!! I'm working on some photographs of what I was able to bring home, to post to my own LJ in celebration of the fact. :)

There are Egyptian presentations on Saturday and Sunday morning as well, so I hope you get to see both if you're interested in them! I was there late Friday and through much of Saturday- I came back to spend a day with my cat, and I'll return to the con on Monday.