#kemetic deity exchange 2018

[starsandepithets]

A really late Kemetic Deity Exchange 2018!

I was asked by @poliwirl100 to offer to Khnum, Anup or Set, so I gave them all offerings. I also read all three deities their corresponding Adorations!

The main part was making a woven bracelet for Khnum, which I tied around his neck and he looks super smart. It’s really difficult to see in the photo, but it’s a plaited ribbon of purple, lavender and black. The colours are not overly significant as they were just the colours that I had. I really enjoying spending the time with Khnum and creating something for him.

Big thanks to @anaputuwet for organising the Kemetic deity exchange!! :D

[tyetandshadevotee]

kemetic deity exchange 2018

so funny story, I got Bast, from @dreadfulstar this year, for the second year in a row 😂 but I’m super glad because I’m pretty well connected with her already and had some ideas for my devotional activity this year!

Today my boyfriend and I celebrated our two year anniversary (a day early lol), so while getting ready I did some little self care things I enjoy. I used a new face mask, lit one of my favorite candles, and used some new moisturizer and socks.

I also decided to devote all the activities I did today to Bast. My boyfriend and I went ice skating, ate at Red Lobster, and went to see a movie 💕 it was a super busy but incredibly fun day!! And I’m glad I got to do it with Bast once again this year 🥰

[tackletofset]

KEMETIC DEITY EXCHANGE 2018

Vector Art of Tutu (Twtw) for @antlering

Tutu is a protective deity in the form of a sphinx. He’s a son of Neith, and also associated with Sekhmet. It’s said that Tutu is often shown with supplementary heads of ibis, hawk, baboon, crocodile or a ram’s (as shown in the picture). His body was a lion’s and sometimes depicted wielding knives on its paws.

There’s also a version of the myth about Tutu being the personification of Aset’s lock of hair which she cut while mourning for Osiris.

...or maybe I should’ve draw Tutu in a tutu skirt.

[antlering]

For the Kemetic Deity Exchange 2018, I received a request from BMPijls to honour Yinepu! BMPijls sent me a really lovely personal message and suggested chocolate and art as a devotional activity.

Yinepu and I aren’t strangers, but we’ve never been especially close - we have a bit of a working relationship centered around my ancestor worship. He’s always been an exceptionally quiet but happy god for me, and it was wonderful to spend this day with him!

I offered Yinepu sweet mulled wine, a chocolate orange, a regular orange, and Tate’s chocolate chips which are super good. I also drew Yinepu (as a black backed jackal) slaying a/pep in the spirit of the New Year. I stopped doing art just before grad school, so this is the first piece of art I’ve finished in years. I’ve never been a great artist and I don’t know how to colour, but I think Yinepu liked it all the same!

I finished off my main ritual with some divination and Yinepu gave me the sweetest reading I’ve ever gotten. It was a wonderful day and I thank BMPijls for the suggestions! Also, shoutout to @anaputuwet for answering my last-minute questions! <3

[meresnut]

Kemetic Deity Exchange 2018

for kemetic deity exchange 2018 (though happy 2019 now) i got set from @sensitive-tyet !

Set is a complicated name for me because I'm pretty sure Wepwawet let him in the front door a year and a half ago but I've been trying to ignore him because he intimidates me. (I did get this pin to protect me on travels though.) I have recently majorly recovered from events I suspect he was involved in, so it is probably about time for Set to sweep in again I guess.

I was asked to do something a little out of my comfort zone, which I’ll have to think on some more coming into the new year, or a food offering that’s spicy and/or an innuendo. So I made a spicy marinara sauce with red pepper flakes and onions with spicy meatballs and used rigatoni so I could make a dick yeah. Along with a salad with grape tomatoes and mozzarella balls and balsamic dressing. Also some blueberry wine and almonds covered in chocolate and dusted in cinnamon bc it felt like he’d want them? There’s a lot of balls here.

I’m probably going to try to pay a little more attention to Set in the next calendar year because to be fair, I’m probably in a spot where a bit of spectacular, mildly disastrous change is necessary even if it’s not comfortable. I was amused if not a bit exasperated to get his name for this, it kind of feels like a “haha, now you HAVE to come talk to me a bit” kind of thing. So we’ll see how that goes. 

Thank you for organizing KDE Anaputuwet! (tumblr won’t let me tag you rn sorry) 

[magnificom]

Kemetic Deity Exchange 2018

A little late, but here’s my first KDE post!

I got @Dragonsandhippiesohmy, who requested that I wear red that day in honor of Sutekh/Set. I was sick so I didn’t take a picture, but red was worn and I did some devotional knitting contemplating my own relationship to Set and the benefits of chaos. Dua Sutekh! Happy New Year y’all!

[greenwitchblackthumb]

30 May 2018

Just like a thing on where I'm at with the path. I need to put this down somewhere I can remember. And i know i love reading about people's personal lives. So here you go, ya nosy things.

Gods

I am trying to narrow down who I like and want to research more. There are a lot listed below and I know there is no way I can deal with more than 2 or 3 main deities, so I'm just trying to puzzle it out as I go.

I'm not looking to work with them in my craft--just get to know them.

Kemetic

I am leaning into doing Kemetic ritual. I naturally fell into making offerings to the Netjer as a whole, and Thoth and Sekhmet-Hathor by name. They are the only gods I actively honor at the moment, and it sort of just happened in a moment where I needed some help. And then I kept going back.

They don't really talk back to me so far, and I don't really ask for much beyond the ability to get all my writing-related work done... but the ritual process calms me down and I must say, minor give and take exchanges between me and the gods are much more preferable to me than that abusive guiltridden shitfest of being a born-again Christian and giving my life and agency over to christ without being allowed to set any of your own conditions.

I have nothing against Christopagans at all, I'm sure they do things differently than I did and have a wonderful experience. But I can't go back.

Also interested in Bast and Bes.

Greco-Roman

I may have been contacted by Eos and Aphrodite/Venus in separate divination based ways, not sure. I'm not particularly interested in either of them otherwise.

I do have an interest in Apollo, as well as Nyx, Hypnos and their kids, and also Hades and Persephone. Someone's divination turned up Nyx for me yesterday, which was interesting. And I've pulled Apollo from a friend's deck the only two times I've used it. Both were one card spreads.

I like all these gods but if I decide to engage further, they would probably only be gods I gave offerings to once in a while. Apollo, Persephone and Hades might be more frequent.

Norse

Freya is the first god I ever seriously considered and I don't know why I haven't gone into her myths more. I think I'm scared she won't be right for me. But she stays on my list even though I don't know much about her, which is probably a sign that I should look into her further. But a goddess of beauty? It doesn't make sense that I would be a good devotee for a goddess like that.

Still, pulling Aphrodite/Venus from my goddess tarot deck could have been a sign to consider a love and beauty goddess (Freya herself wasn't in this deck).

And she has known pain from love, too. She's not shallow (and why should I think beauty is necessarily shallow?). Women in Viking society did things and played a more active part than in most. Maybe I just convinced myself to give this a go.

Loki... I feel the sense of a kindred spirit when I read other people's stories about life as a Lokean. I feel drawn. But I also feel wary. If I go down this path I will need to be very careful and I'm just not ready for it yet. I want life on my terms for the most part, and I don't know if Loki is gonna be good with that.

Odin... maybe. His wandering, travelling, knowledge-seeking side. Not as a primary god.

Thor... I like his protector aspect but not much else grabs me.

I'm a bit intimidated by this whole pantheon really. So much history to read!

Other

Brigit from Ireland waits in the wings. I do like that she actually does stuff.

Craft

I'm definitely animist. I have to ask permission from everything before I do anything with it or I don't feel right.

I use what's already there and bring the properties of it to the surface.

I try to nudge the balance of probabilities in my favour.

I don't curse or hex but I can't say I never will. Depends on if I meet someone who has done something awful enough.

I don't know if I am a witch or something else. Wiccans command powers and deities, many witches spells I've seen also command forces. I ask. More than most people.

I do have an interest in chaos magic, however. As well as an academic interest in ceremonial.

Plants

I have discovered I really love plants. Even my energy shield thing is a plant.

I always thought I couldn't care less about plants. But I grew up in a home where my parents would buy the plants but then not nurture them, and they died. I think they kind of did the same to us kids--just didn't give us quite enough and mixed it all in with a toxic heirarchy. Maybe I was psychically deadened by it all, and the plants that thrived in spite of us saw me as part of the problem so they didn't want to connect.

I remember being disheartened from gardening at the sight of all the plants dying, thinking, why should we bother?

In the first few months after I left home, I bought a basil plant and I loved and cared for that little plant so much. Come winter, it died as basil naturally does, and I wasn't prepared. I was so demoralised by losing it that I didn't try again for another two years. My second attempt at a potted garden was by necessity on such an out of the way part of my property that I never went there and I forgot to water them. They weren't part of my daily life and routine, so how could I connect?

This time I am physically close to my plants, and prepared for my basil to die a peaceful death.

Skills

I realised I'm an empath, but also kind of an extroverted version of one. It's weird and it means I overshare in a need to connect. I love talking to people but also need my space.

I have always been quite lucky with small coincidences and wonder if I have been able to manifest them somehow unconsciously? I suppose I'll never know. But most of my spells work, too. It's weird and I wish I knew more.

I seem to be good at divination but then it crossed over with some accidental mediumship on my part and now I'm trying to lock all my stuff down and make sure I'm extra protected.

I wasn't looking to become a medium or work with spirits beyond my ancestors. So I'm a bit in shock. now I've been blown wide open and I get overstimulated very easily so have had to develop my shield and armour in response, and figure out a way to visualise turning my third eye and empath abilities up and down. Getting there.

Maybe I'll try mediumship again in a year or two but not right now.

....aaaand that's about it.

[awitchybee]

Kemetic Deity Exchange: A Moment With Ra

Forgive me if I’m not making any sense. For some reason I’ve been pretty exhausted all day so I may word things strangely. For the Kemetic Deity Exchange, I got Ra from @arachnospooky. I was pretty excited because I’m always happy to give Ra a little offering here and there. I have a very familial relationship with the Netjeru, often considering my Gods to be somewhat like parental or aunt/uncle-like figures. (A good example of this is Mafdet being like a lovably crazy vodka aunt and Anpu being a father figure) And for me, Ra is like a grandfather of sorts. Maybe it’s related to his role as the Father of the Gods, I’m not sure. Either way, that’s the vibe I get from him. A caring, outgoing granddad. I don’t know if this makes much sense... I’m rambling, lemme just carry on, lol. @arachnospooky wanted me to offer a devotional activity to Ra, and suggested some things like watching the sunrise, making sun puns or looking into how the sun affects my area. (Wanna know how the sun affects my region? It doesn’t. I live in Ireland. It’s always raining. I think it’s a little shady, but...) I did manage to catch a glimpse of the sunrise a few days ago when I went out to greet Ra, though!

Apologies that it’s a little blurry. Isn’t it lovely, though? I went outside then and said hello as He rose. It was rainy and windy today, and I decided to pour a ritual bath, and while it was pouring, a little bit of sunlight peeked through for a moment, so I like to thin He was there. Now, I don’t have a statue of Ra, but I do have a gold necklace of a falcon which I wear and dedicate to him. So, to make up for a lack of an idol, I wore the necklace today and put on make up as an offering with blue eyeshadow to represent the blue skies when the Sun shines, with green shadow under my eyes because I’m nerdy and wanted to represent photosynthesis occuring with solar radiation to represent the green grass on sunny days. I then prepared some offerings, lit some Frankincense & Myrrh incense, and set up the gifts:

My shrine with offerings for Ra. (I invited the other Netjeru to share as well, since I left the offerings by their statues. Also, those of you who are wondering where my Bast statue is, she has her own place now for a while!) Rooibos tea, an orange, toffee, raspberry and orange chocolates, a bit of polish halva, a shot of orange juice and a Pepsi with Amaretto. I prayed a little bit, then I played some hymns and sat at my shrine researching the Sun. (I’m a bit of an amateur astrophysicist[note: Unlike the Sun, I have 0 degrees and it is merely a hobby] so this was exciting because I got to nerd out while spending some time with Ra) I had just filled up my personal astronomy research diary recently so I decided that my new one should start off with a page of random facts about the Sun. I filled the first page up with what I knew and with some things which I will want to research in more depth in the future. So, I’m super thankful that Ra had motivated me to start filling yet another empty journal. It allows me to further see the Sun in a new light.

It was, overall, a nice day spent reflecting with Ra, Father of the Gods, and I hope He’s pleased with His offerings and my research. To end the day, before sleep, I will do a small nighttime exercise routine which I call my sunset routine. I hope this is more or less what you had in mind @arachnospooky, and thank you to @anaputuwet for organising this and to both of you for motivating me to get up off my lazy spoonie ass and actually do some proper devotional stuff. It was fun and I really enjoyed it and was left feeling positive. Best wishes to y’all for 2018. ♥

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Here is my (late) entry for the Kemetic Deity Exchange 2017! Many thank-you’s to @anaputuwet for organizing the event, and to @taqerisenu for the devotional task prompt!

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