Ausir Mysteries – A New Hope More sprouts! When will it end? If you remember, in our last installment, I’d removed about half the sprouts. The next day the jar is fuller than before! Is one of you sneaking in more sprouts? More sprouts out of the jar for an offering salad. I’m taking more…
Month: August 2011
DIY Ausir Mystery (Bast too!) Part 3
Ausir Mysteries – The Two Sprouts Day three. Way, way too many sprouts. It’s aliiiiive! As you can see, our little pile of wheat has grown. You can also see the roots, even at this distance. You can clearly see the roots. I took about half the sprouts out of the jar for the Bast…
Link: "They ate supper before they said Grace!" (Southern Fried Pagan)
Southern Fried Pagan: “They ate supper before they said Grace!” An interesting “How do you start out in Egyptian religion?” answer by Rev. Sonya Miller. She’s Tameran/Wiccan, but this applies equally to recon paths. I agree with her that “The Book of the Dead,” especially the old Budge translation is NOT the way to begin. …
DIY Ausir Mystery (Bast too!) Part 2
Ausir Mysteries – The Saga Continues… Twelve to twenty-four hours later we pour out the water and take a look at our wheat. Kamut Grains, with rootlets! The grains are starting to get tiny rootlets- the little white protuberances at one end. Kamut after soaking. You can see that the grain takes up a lot…
DIY Ausir Mystery (Bast too!) Part 1
Osiris, Ausir, Wesir…. The Green Guy For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, our planting season isn’t in synch with the calendar of ancient Egypt. By the time November rolls around it’s way too late to plant anything. And many people don’t have the space for a garden anyway. How do we celebrate the…
Ma’at 0.1
I’ve been thinking of doing some posts about Ma’at. Ma’at But that’s a bit further down the road. However, I thought I’d pass along a couple things I have said recently on some of the Kemetic forums. …Well, as long as you’re still metabolizing, it’s never too late to start living in Ma’at. I also…
Link: Per-Sabu: House of Jackals
Wepwawet While I’m on the subject of resource links, if you have an interest in the Jackal Deities, Per-Sabu is a treasure of information. Check it out! It’s just been started recently, so more information is still being added. I’ve never known if Inepu, Yinepu, or Anpu was the right name for Anubis. Now I…
Link: Goddesses and Gods of the Ancient Egyptians- Henadology
A popular quick reference for the Netjeru (Kemetic Gods and Goddesses) is the wikipedia page for the Egyptian pantheon. But what if you want to go further? Your Gratuitous Moment of Shrine Goddesses and Gods of the Ancient Egyptians: A Theological Encyclopedia, from the Henadology blog, is one of the best online resources I’ve found. Whether…
Link: Hail to You, My Living Ka
the Ka Many articles that mention the Ka present it as an amorphous soul-thing. But it doesn’t really do anything for us, does it? As it’s usually presented, the Ba is what’s really “you”- your memories, your identity. So who needs a Ka, anyway? Hail To You, My Living Ka: Ka Theology 101 is an…
The Beaky One, he’s not just the Lord of Wisdom anymore…
I’m talking about Djehuty, of course. “The Beaky One” is really one of his epithets! In the past, I was never that interested in him. I could never figure out how to pronounce the name “Thoth”. Does it rhyme with “Goth”, is the final ‘h’ silent? ‘Tote”? “Toth”? Then there’s the bird head thing. He’s…