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Announcement
The Thanksgiving holiday has come and gone. For those of you in the Northern, Western Hemisphere, I hope you all were able to spend time with your friends and loved ones, and have since avoided the...
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Where Ceremonial Magickians Go Wrong — The Summoners’ Edition
DISCLAIMER — This is not a treatise regarding the validity or invalidity of various Ceremonial traditions. While there are many religions and magical systems I vehemently disagree with, I am not about...
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Osirian Mysteries: A Ritual
Reblogged from The Twisted Rope: Long before I came to Kemeticism, when I still identified as a Wiccan, my SO concocted a rite to do for Osiris, which he taught to me. I can’t really say where he got...
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It’s That Time of Year Again . . .
Greetings, all! The Yule season is upon us. It is both a happy and stressful time of year, especially when it comes to gifts. In addition to the “Shop Pagan!” page I added to my blog, a good friend of...
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Heka for Everyone : Tip # 3
T H E M A G I C O F M O T I O N Pantomime is an often overlooked aspect of many magical disciplines. In historical heka — though heka itself means “art of the mouth” or “meaningful speech” — the...
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Dreamside Gestation
I awoke in the middle of the night from a rather strange, though unexpectedly pleasant, dream. I dreamt that my husband-to-be and I were together, laying together in the light. Everything seemed white...
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A Very Merry Moomas!
Yule and Saturnalia are not the only Polytheist holidays to occur at this time of year. The Kemetic holiday of the Establishment of the Celestial Cow, colloquially known as “Moomas,” also occurs during...
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Roma et Germania (Or, Why People Need to Know Their History, Fool!)
Reblogged from My Sun Sets to Rise Again: Roman Altar to the Vagdavercustis, a Germanic goddess with possible Celtic origins. 165 CE. The inscription reads as follows: “To the Goddess Vagdavercustis,...
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Craft Friday: Gift Tag Festival Calendar
Reblogged from Upholding Ma'at: I got some of this idea from pinterest (by the way, if you have one and want a little peak into my creative process, follow me) and thought a festival calendar would be...
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The Blind Leading the Blind
Personal interactions with the Gods are a natural occurrence, and more frequent for some than others. These personal interactions can be entirely authentic and legitimate, and worthy of discussion....
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Isis, Meskhenet & a Bunch of Magical Bricks
Reblogged from Isiopolis: The ancient Egyptians encountered magical bricks on the way into life and on the way out. Isis giving birth while squatting on birthing bricks and supported by Divine...
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The Blind Leading the Blind – Addendum : Pedanticism and Altar Porn
I am overjoyed at the responses I received on my previous entry from my friends and readers, and the discussions it prompted. If you have not done so yet, I encourage you to peruse Ekunyi’s, Helmsman...
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Zeitgeist is Retarded, or Why Comparative Mythology is an Intellectual Morass
For those of you not familiar with the epic fail that is Zeitgeist, this bullshit has made the rounds repeatedly on the internet for years now: None of this has any basis in historical nor theological...
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Modern Mythology: Santa Min
Reblogged from The Twisted Rope: This post may not be safe for those under 18. Some images are NSFW. I’d like to tell you a story about Santa Min. Once upon a time, as the months got colder and...
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Newsflash
THIS IS TOTALLY NEWS, GUYS. BRACE YOURSELVES. I prefer to not be so informal and . . . irritated in my posts, but at this moment, I feel the need to scratch this irksome itch: Whatever the case for...
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Just Married!
On the 27th, rather. In any event, I am now Mrs. Ram. Ram was able to get the leave he had been chasing after, and was able to visit for the holiday. It was a close call, and the local courts were less...
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2012 in Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 6,400 views in 2012. If...
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Hooray! I Was Bestowed A Thing!
Aegoddard over at Upholding Ma’at awarded me the Liebster Award. Many thanks! I’ve never heard of this blog award before, much less received a blog award of any kind. Notwithstanding, it put a smile...
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Craft Friday: Lackadaisical Unguent
Reblogged from Upholding Ma'at: In Ancient Egypt annointing oils were commonplace. Some were worn as perfume while other oils perfumed the idols at temples during the morning ritual. These oils,...
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Pagan Blog Project 2013 : A is for Amun
(Begin at 03:44) Ram of Amun outside the shrine of Taharqa in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, August 2008. Photo courtesy of smokeghost on Flickr. Amun is perhaps the most pervasive and enigmatic of all...
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