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Wep Ronpet, Year 23 / 2015
Di Wep Ronpet nofret! (Happy New Year!) Year 22 under Aset and the Epagomenal Days have passed. Year 23 for the Kemetic Orthodox Temple — with the Aset Webenut Oracle revealing Heru-sa-Aset as its God...
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For Sobek on His Feast-Day, I Akhet 7
According to the Kemetic Orthodox calendar, I Akhet 7 falls on the 9th of August, 2015, and is a feast-day of Sobek. This is one of four feast-days of Sobek in I Akhet — I Akhet 9, 11, and 17 are the...
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A Simple Balbale for Dumuzi
A balbale is a difficult-to-quantify-and-qualify type of Sumerian poetical format, one in which hymns are frequently written. Those of my readers who are familiar with my Mesopotamian Revivalist...
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“The True Meaning of Herishefgiving,” or “It’s the Great Akhet IV – Peret I...
Photo © Sarduríur Freydís Sverresdatter For a few consecutive years now, a number of you within the overarching Kemetic community may have noticed the word “Herishefgiving” float across your Tumblr...
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Images for the Imageless : Nergal / Erra
Many years ago, I had promised Nergal / Erra an anthropomorphic image as an offering, to serve as His sacred conduit in my Mesopotamian shrine. I had searched for a sculptor to make for me a suitable...
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Images for the Imageless : Iškur / Adad
Image copyright Sarduriur Freydis Sverresdatter. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Following Nergal’s piece — which was the first...
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Images for the Imageless : Ninurta
Following those of Nergal, and Adad, the next piece I created was for Ninurta. Ninurta, also known as Ning̃irsu — the latter’s name meaning “The Lord of G̃irsu” (Modern Ṭalʿah, in the Dhi Qar...
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Images for the Imageless : Enki / Ea
Image copyright Sarduriur Freydis Sverresdatter. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Following Ninurta‘s piece, I created an image...
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Images for the Imageless : Enzag
Following Ea‘s, the next of these images for the imageless I created was for Enzag. It is also a companion piece to the one I made for Ea, for reasons both historical and personal that will be detailed...
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Kemetic “Art a Week” Challenge # 1 : “Desert”
One of the Reverends in my Temple, the House of Netjer, decided to initiate an “Art a Week” challenge to last until the end of the Kemetic year. That is, from now until the end of July. Each week, the...
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Three Hymns from Hypostyle M of Hebet Temple for Everyday Worship of Amun
“Redi iau en Amun, Šeta Šetau nen rekh Šetauef” / “Giving Praise to Amun, Mysterious of Mysteries Whose Mysteries Cannot Be Known” — Image copyright Sarduriur Freydis Sverresdatter. This work is...
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The House of Netjer Needs YOUR Help!
Em hotep nefer weret (in great and perfect peace), dear readers! The Temple to which I belong, the Kemetic Orthodox House of Netjer, is at present seriously hurting for charitable contributions. One of...
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Big News
Em hotep nefer weret (in great and perfect peace), dearest readers! Before I break my own news, I just wanted to express my sincere thanks toward those of you — current members, former members, and...
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A Recent Addition
Between Reddit and Facebook, I have been asked numerous times what sorts of textbooks I recommend concerning Ancient Near Eastern religions / cultures. Because I’m tired of rewriting these...
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Iu Djed Amun-Re Men-em-Khet-Neb em Resut
(Says Amun-Re Who-Endures-In-Everything within a dream) I came before, and I will come after. I Am becomings upon becomings, I Am knowings upon knowings. There has only been. In the deep of Creation,...
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Praises of Netjer Contest 2016
As part of an ongoing fundraising project, the Kemetic Orthodox House of Netjer is holding the second annual Praises of Netjer contest. For last year’s contest, the three deities Who received the most...
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Aristotle Never Said That, But It Certainly Can Be
Aristotle did express this in his Nichomachean Ethics, however: “[ . . . ] Goods also exhibit a similar fluctuation because they bring harm to many people: before now men have been undone by their...
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