#Shesmetet

[wanderingskemetic]

🦁Subtle Shesmetet Worship⚰️

Greatly inspired by @khaire-traveler's wonderful subtle worship series, which can be found here.

Visit cemeteries; leave flowers at graves (with permission); or help clean up gravesites (if allowed)

Honor your ancestors/souls that have passed

Learn self-defense, weapons included or not

Learn about and uphold Ma'at

Make a playlist or listen to songs that remind you of her or you think she'd like

Make a collage/moodboard/pinterest board/similar collection of photos and images you associate with her, especially if some of the images are your own

Wear a piece of jewelry or other clothing item that reminds you of her

Light a candle or incense that reminds you of her (safely)

Carry a picture of her in your wallet, pocket, phone case, etc. or as a phone or computer wallpaper

Have lioness or girdle imagery

Dedicate a belt, girdle, or similar item to her and wear it

Take charge/leadership roles in parts of your life

Hold onto any family heirlooms; keep items from people who have passed in your life

Support humanitarian organizations, especially funeral funding or suicide prevention ones

Exercise a little, even if it's just stretching

Practice standing up for yourself; speak your mind and assert your personal boundaries

Carry a protective charm with you

Stand up for other people

Practice restraint and self-control

Learn about death; acquaint yourself with the idea of death; figure out what you believe happens after death

Requested by @likeadeadbattery. Unfortunately, since we know so little about her, this list is fairly short.

I may add more to this list in the future. Suggestions are always appreciated.

Link to the Kemetic Subtle Worship Masterpost

[9kreator]

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[dwellerinthelibrary]

Still weird as hell. :)

[An Egyptian papyrus. Top: four black jackals tow the solar barque, containing a yellow sundisc which contains a black scarab. In the prow is the shesmetet symbol in red. Beneath the boat a black snake wriggles. Below, four mummiform gods or demons sit facing the imiut fetish. They are white with red mummy braces. Their heads, right to left, are: two snakes; a uraeus; a baboon; a green jackal.]

DSC02400 by Arqueóloga22 on Flickr.

From the papyrus of Djedmaatiuesankh, the four jackals towing the barque again. These funerary papyri are weird as hell, but you see the same scenes and figures cropping up over and over - plus those scenes are often from one of the known afterlife books, such as the Book of the Dead or the Book of What is in the Netherworld (the Amudat). So the more of them you see, the less abstruse and the more intelligible they become. They’re still weird as hell, though.

[loosebaresoul]

shattered under cold moonlight sauntering around the indigo i’m within the bare touch of drifting ghosts one whispers out the name Shesmetet as blood from self inflicted wounds trickles down it keeps this ugly duckling diligent if only to cure a lil monachopsis i'll be on the hilltop trying to desperately forget clutching many broken promises in hand until the wind blows fortuitously freeing up some sorrows until we meet again

[bigbadjackal]

Perhaps this is a weird question, but do you pronounce the ‘t’ at the end of feminine names? Like Amunet and Anupet or even Ammut.

Hi goldenwatcher,

I do personally, but whether it's most authentic to do so or not, I've no idea. I'm not a phoneticist and it's really not my area at all. But you should check out this page, it was written up by someone for whom this is very much an area of expertise. I have also asked him directly and the answer is complicated to say the least. The following is my curated version, selecting for the more practical aspects he shared with me.

"The .t ending is the normal ending for a grammatically feminine word. This shared across much of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. In many languages the pronounced ending (often *-at, but in various situations it could have other vowels too, depending on language and period and register.)"

"By the later OK (say 5th Dyn very roughly, the /t/ begins to drop out in a few words. This progresses over time, leaving (usually) a final schwa-like or /e/ or /a/ vowel . You see this in many words in Coptic that are feminine. (in Bohairic and Fayoumic it can be spelled with -i as well.)"

(He then spoke about a number of more technical issues with the implication that there was a general overall erosion of the -t from the language and its retention only in some rather particular grammatical cases.)

"A special wrinkle is feminine nisba nouns that are formed on underlying feminine nouns ending in -t. bAst.t, rnnut.t, Ssmt.t (Bastet, Renenutet, Shesmetet) are examples. Those preserve the first t while dropping the final one, according to the original basic rule."

"OK that got us into Goddess names. But one final warning first. It could very well be that -t pronunciations were retained in very formal and religious speech used ritually and for maybe some high literary registers."

"By the MK, probably in informal speech, final feminine ts were dropped in pausal, non-possessed and non-construct situations. By Late Egyptian this was quite far along and was moving into epistolary writing - with final -ts dropping out in hieratic and some simple common words in hieroglyphic - like nb for nb.t. By Ptolemaic we commonly see spellings that drop the final t even in hieroglyphic on Temple walls. It is basically after the NK that you see spellings of Bastet's name with only one t. And even then, not always..."

"Now, we have a good amount of transcriptions from Assyrian cuneiform and Greek, etc that indicate that many Goddess names (and Epithets) are not ordinarily pronounced with final ts. But internal ones in compound names are - like H(w).t-Hr and nb.t-H(w).t. Some names always kept the final t - like ni(y).t (Neith). Isis (originally *Úsit) loses the t (from Greek: Ése)."

"Big bad conclusion. We have to look at the evidence for every single name to figure this out!! While many final t's go away, some persist forever."

A little add from me: In the name Ammut, that final -t is actually not present because of her gender, but is part of mwt, a word for the dead, which she am-swallows. And Hannig Lexica-1 is indicating that mwt is actually a masculine word. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[necronatron]

I haven’t posted anything of mine here in a while so I might as well post this. This is my first ever attempt at painting, especially scenery, so I guess it’s pretty good for my first try.

This is my good boi Bennu taking care of Shesmetet’s oasis after his morning coffee. FRew, it’s time for some polo shirts pWEASE

I got this vision of this part of our oasis and I couldn’t get it out of my head because it was too fucking beautiful for me to handle, so I painted it. I still can’t believe I did it tbh. I’m planning on making a detailed map of our clan and its territory, and paint several locations because I FUCKING LOVE DESERTS AGDFGFSG. I can’t wait to work on this project some more!

[wanderingskemetic]

Kemetic Subtle Deity Worship Masterpost

These are arranged alphabetically. Any post not made by me is marked as such. This list includes foreign deities who were worshipped in Egypt.

Amun

Anat

Anpu

Anuket

Aset

Astarte

Atum

Bast (made by @pupilofbast)

Bes

Djehuty

Hetheru

Heqet

Khepri

Khnum

Khonsu

Mehen

Mut

Nefertum

Neith

Ptah

Ra

Renenutet

Resheph

Satet

Sekhmet

Seshat

Shesmetet

Sobek

Sutekh

Tatenen

Taweret

Wepwawet

Wesir

This list will be updated as more posts are made!

[itstheendofthegoddamnworld]

I don't know why, but when I was reading part 5 of Shesmetet I imagined a fluffy scene of the reader brushing his hair and kissing his neck from behind while saying his hair is soft. It was so out of nowhere I was just ??? Why did I imagine that??? It was cute in my mind tho 😂

No, wait stop, that's actually so cute and ty for sharing that thought too🥺 I think they would definitely do that when they've got spare time and the evenings to rest, just quality comfort and being soft with each other💫

[itstheendofthegoddamnworld]

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[itstheendofthegoddamnworld]

Nagas are so cute, Rey and Shesmetet are the examples.

Nagas are cute, but I’m glad you like them! 😊💫🐍