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hii! i'm not a kemetic pagan at all but was just wondering about the "sn/ake deity" (Ap3p)(idk if its disrespectful to mention) of the pantheon. is it disrespectful to worship him? i remember watching an actual academic kemetic pagan talk about this but i lost the video. so, i saw a draconic witch work with them and say stuff like "i'm tired of pleasing other kemetics and i'm gonna do my own thing by worshipping the sn/ake". just want your opinion on that sorry if this is confusing i can clarify😭

It's that you specified because there are a lot of snake deities (Wadjet, Renenutet, Mehen, Meretseger, etc.) which are perfectly fine to worship (I would also argue that A/p/e/p isn't really a deity and there's some evidence that this is true historically (1), but enough scholarly sources call him that, so I understand why people refer to him as such). Generally, kemetic polytheists slash out his name in someway because of ancient practices to deface his name in someway as a way of removing his power (2). Generally it's considered polite to disrupt the name in online kemetic polytheist spaces.

Worshiping A/p/e/p is at best is disrespectful and at worse actively malicious. A/p/e/p is the force that fights against the Netjeru (gods) and seeks to bring about the end of the world. (3) (4) So by worshipping him one is seeking to destroy the entire universe and everyone and everything in it. And this is explicitly not a destruction and rebirth cycle. A/p/e/p seeks to unmake the world and brings about nonexsistance. (3) (4)

Here's some posts by other kemetic polytheists on A/p/e/p and worshipping him that you might find useful one of which go into detail on A/p/e/p as a manifestation of isfet which I didn't here since the concepts can be quite complicated and to me at least are secondary to A/p/e/p's intention of unmaking the universe: 1, 2, 3, 4.

References:

Morenz, Ludwig D. “Apophis: On the Origin, Name, and Nature of an Ancient Egyptian Anti‐God.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 63, no. 3, 2004, pp. 201–05, page 202.

Kousoulis, Panagiotis I. "Magic and Religion as a Preformative Theological Unity: the Apotropaic 'Ritual of Overthrowing Apophis'". 1999. pages 211-212.

Wilkinson, Richard H. The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. pages 221-221.

Hart, George. The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. pages 31-32.

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Hatmehyt, Foremost of Fish

Hi! How are all of you doing?

Today’s drawing is goddess Hatmehyt for @djar-em-rekh

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I'm new here. Just wanted to leave art with Geb and Nut 🤌🤌 I love Egyptian mythology so much

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Nut & Nun - counterparts to One another.

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Nut, Goddess of the Sky ✨

It's been one year since I've drawn her artwork and considering I've improved a lot since, I decided to make her a new one!

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The world is a fascinating and beautiful place; all fractals reflecting in on each other. Such beauty lies in every thing. One just has to open their eyes… and then sunlight shining through water is more valuable than any gemstone.

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Nut in Her name of Mehet-Wret

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Atum & Nut

Birthed from my readings about the similarities of Their roles in the funerary sphere.

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The etymology of Nut in relation to origin and meaning:

"In the case of Nut, with Her well established status of a personification of the sky as early as the Pyramid Texts, this perspective is a promising point of departure. The information found therin does not, however, relate to the original position of Nut within a local cult or pre-Enneadic constellation, but to the conceptual basis for Her existence." (Nils Billing 2002:p.10)

+ Name contains elements pot, female determinative t, and determinative for the sky.

+ Later Pyramid Texts carried tendency to increase use of determinatives; Nut was first given anthropomorphic female determinative in pyramid of Ibi.

+ Additional/variant determinatives are the three water signs documented in the Coffin Texts, enhancing the watery aspects of the sky, and the cobra in the New Kingdom.

+ Barta has viewed the phonetic nwt as an indication of Her role as a feminine counterpart of Nwn.

+ Allen has considered the possibility of relating Her name to the root nw(i), 'waters', not as a feminine conterpart, but as a feminine nisbe of the masculine word rendering it nwjt, "She of the waters".

+ Variant determinative (N17) in Pyr. 1629a gives possible reading of the name as 'oval' (nwt), "in what seems to be the original character of Her name" an idea he (Allen) finds related to Her concrete role as sarcophagus. (Nils Billing 2002:p.11)

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Another depiction of the Mother Universe. Dua Nut!

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{🪷 Nu/Nun 𓏌𓏌𓏌𓇯𓈗𓀭 🪷}

| Personification of the primordial waters | 🌊 { Name: } Hieroglyphs:

| 𓏌𓏌𓏌𓅱 | 𓏌𓏌𓏌𓅱𓅆 | 𓏌𓏌𓏌𓇯𓈗𓀭  𓏌𓏌𓏌𓇯𓈗 | 𓏌𓏌𓏌𓇯𓀭 | 𓏌𓏌𓏌𓅱𓇯𓈗𓀭  |  𓏌𓏌𓏌 | 𓈖𓈖𓏌𓏌𓏌𓅱 | 𓈖𓏌𓏌𓏌 | 𓈖𓏌𓏌𓏌𓅱𓅆 | Transliteration: nw , nnw Reconstruction: na:nu (Old Egyptian), na:nə (New Egyptian), ​nun (Late Egyptian) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - { Epithets : } 🌊 ~ nb pt – The lord of the sky ~ rdi TAw – Who gives the Atum breath ~ aA nt – The one with great flood ~ ir tA – Who creates the earth ~ xnty wTst Hr – The head of Edfu ~ xnty tA rr – The head of Dendera ~ nb pr dwAt – The lord of the house of the underworld ~ xnty st wrt – The head of the great seat ~ nty Hr sATw – Who is on the ground ~ iwH Axt – Who floods the field ~ sp n.f Haw m Hapy – Who himself leaves his body as the flood ~ it nTrw – The father of the gods ~ it nTrw StAw – The father of the secret gods ~ it smsww – The father of the old ones ~ SAa xpr xnt – Who started becoming at the beginning ~ ir Xrt prr im.f – Who cares for the needs of the one who came out of him ~ sanx wnnt – Who keeps alive that which exists ~ it n ra – The father of Ra ~ bs Dsr n imn rn.f – The secret shape of the one with a hidden name ~ pr r nwnt – Who himself goes back to Naunet

{ Offerings : } 🌊 ~ Water, Milk, Beer, Wine, Bread, Flowers (UPG) ~ Lettuce, Fruits, Vegetables, Meat ~ Incense, Perfumes, Candles, Oils ~ ( Frankincense, lotus, sandalwood, lavender, chamomille, sea scents ) ~ Blue gems (UPG), pots/pottery/vases, Ankh Was Djed ~ Imagery of Bulls, Snakes, Frogs, or water ~ (Boats (UPG?), shells (UPG), sea animals (UPG)) Dua Nun 𓀀𓀀𓀀 { * Sources: } - Sesh kemet (https://seshkemet.weebly.com/nunun.html) - LAGG Nu Epithets (Lexikon der ägyptischen götter und götterbezeichnungen) - UPG (Labelled as so) + General information

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I’ve started taking notes on both Nils Billing’s 2002 book and Silvia Zago 2019 thesis in my private server, but I think I may start sharing some of my notes here. Mostly they are about Nut and cosmology.

Here is a beginning. From Nils Billing:

"This field of research (of the Goddess Nut and the original status of Gods) holds a certain fascination, as it is not grounded in contemporary evidence, but rather in the 'logic' of each individual scholar." p.7

"... cosmic Gods in ancient Egypt tend to lack sanctuaries of their own..." p.8

"Concerning the origins of Nut, Sainte Fare Garnot (1954:114) recognized Her as having an originally independent status with Her own cult and clergy. A survival from these times was found in the epithet bityt, "Queen of Lower Egypt", which Nut is given in the Pyramid Texts." p.8

"(Barta) saw Nut as a complement to Nun that, together with Their offspring, the Sun God, formed the original circle of Gods in Heliopolis (1973a:100-103)." p. 8

"In an Enneadic constellation that combined the original Heliopolitan Gods, with the outsiders Shu and Tefnut, a system had been created where, around "Nut als der Zentralfigur" (Nut as the central figure), eight Gods were ordered into four generations." p.9

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Devotional art piece for the goddess Nut

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Ra in His solar barque today

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old sketch of the sweetest scented!

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Maahes/Mihos

𓌳𓎛𓎿𓋴     𓌳𓁹𓎛𓊃𓅭𓃬      𓌳𓄿𓎛𓎿𓋴𓁻     𓃬𓎿𓁻   
𓅖𓃬𓁻𓀭      𓌳𓊃𓎛𓄂

Meaning of his name:

* Fierce Lion

* He who is true before her

* [One who can] See in front

Some Epithets:

* Manifester of Will

* Helper of the Wise Ones

* Avenger of Wrongs

* The Lord of Massacre

* Lord of Slaughter

* Weilder of the Knife

* The Scarlet Lord

* Lord of the Horizon

* Eye of Ra

Areas of Worship

* A temple was erected for Maahes dating to at least the 18th Century in Tamermu, or Leontopolis, which was his main area of worship.

* In Bubastis, a temple was erected for Maahes, dating to the 23rd Dynasty.

* He was worshipped in Aphroditopolis of Upper Egypt.

* He’s represented in temples across Dendera, Edfu, and Philae during the Greco-Roman period.

* He appears in temples erected at Dabod and Dendur in Nubia.

* He’s attested in the Bahariya Oasis and Siwa oasis.

Offerings:

* Lotus

* Flower bouquets

* Solar iconography

* Lion iconography

* Knives (or other weapons).

* Fire (candles)

* Crafts of his crown- the Double Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Atef Crown, or the Solar disk with the ureas.

* Eye of Re imagery

* Meat (raw meat may be acceptable but ask)

* *Maat*

* Bread

* Beer

* Wine

* Water

* Working out

* A devotional act of standing up to injustice

Maahes is the son of Re or Ptah, with Sakhmet or Bast being the mother. He has a close connection to Nefertum, Shemsu, Anhur, and Shu.

Maahes was not an important figure in Egyptian mythology, yet he seems to have been important as a local deity, aiding in the fight against Apophis. He was the personification of the burning heat of the sun who repelled evil and punished those who violated the rules of maat. Due to this it’s believed he was associated with justice and order.

Next, Maahes is a guardian of sacred places. Due to his role of fighting evil, he was able to keep back evil forces from entering places like the room where the corpse of Asar was housed.

Maahes is also believed to have a role with perfumes, due to his connection with Nefertum, along with him being seen carrying the lotus bouquet as Nefertum does.

In Ancient Greece, he became associated with the Furies, and gave him the title of ‘the kindly one.’ To their culture, he was a god of storms and winds.

More notes and citations: https://akhretnotes.weebly.com/maahes-mihos.html#/

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a garland solar crown for Ma’at

lapis, turquoise, bronze, and carnelian