This is my 12.5 inch Bastet statue I scored on eBay a few years ago. This is one of my favorite pieces on my shrine!

Blessings to you all ! <3

Do you ever dream of Thoth? If so, how does he appear? I had a dream recently where a Thoth-coded water bird caused me to find something important. Actually, I couldn't see the bird in my dream, for the most part, but I knew it was there, and I could hear it.

I don't know why, but i have this weird thing where i do want to pray, but i hesitate to do so.

Hi guys, I wanted to share a dream with you I had last night, talk about or interpret as you wish, but its not necessary. However, the real reason behind the post is that I'm thinking that Lord Ra may be trying to talk to me. Lately I have been drawn to sun symbols, crystals, and sun bathing in general. I didn't think anything of it until last night. In my dream I was with a bunch of other parents, I'm not a parent yet, but I keep having dreams of my children. In this dream we were leading them through the forest to participate in a ritual called The Haunting. After the children enter the deeper part of the forest, us parents go to a spring not far from where we were to pray to our gods. In my dream I was as I am now, not knowing what diety is trying to call out. I asked them, in my dream, to reveal themselves to me. Suddenly, there was a whirlwind of fire that was warm but did not burn anyone. The whirlwind came towards me and it spoke the name Ra. Also the image of the eye of Ra flashed in my mind. As the whirlwind started to still a hawk flew out of it and towards me. I woke up, and never figured out if it landed on me or attacked me. However I felt no fear towards it. Do ya'll have any advice on figuring out if this was a sign or just a wild dream.

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I just googled the ritual of the haunting, its a babylonian ritual in which their SUN GOD is invoked to remove a male spirit from a person. How in the world. I've never heard of that before. So that's sign three, I had a dream about a sun god ritual, the whirl wind that spoke the name of Ra, and the being drawn to the sun symbols. Should I try and reach our to Lord Ra?

Among the ancient Egyptians, the concept of pleasure and joy is associated with smell. The hieroglyph 《nose》appeared in all words that characterized the joy and success of being happy. It was through the nose that the Egyptians received the breath of life from the gods. The perfume had a specific deity, Nefertem, The Lord of the Nose. In representations, he appears with a lotus flower in his hair, a symbol of resurrection, because it blooms along the path of the sun and closes at night to reopen in the morning. Perfumes were fixed in balms, oils and preserved in decorated boxes and ointment jars.

1. Image of the Tomb of Horemheb, Valley of the Kings, Thebes, 18th Dynasty

I have been seeing a lot of posts about Bastet, Anubis, and Bes. However, I don't see a lot of people who have been chosen by Osiris. I have started Kemetism this year, as one of my new years resolution, something I have always wanted to participate in for my whole life but haven't because of fear of rejection from friends and family.

Now that I have prayed to Osiris as my chosen and made his altar, I had a dream where I saw my dead loved ones (as a watching dream/not allowed to be seen or heard) and saw Osiris in the background as if he was watching over them and protecting them in the afterlife.

Am I doing the right things? Does anyone think that I misread the dream...because it felt meaningful to me but I want to be sure if I read into it correctly.

All comments and advice are welcomed, please

As I said in a post, I'm new in Kemeticism and I'm starting to worship Anubis, but I have conservative parents,Is there any way I can worship Anubis?

Long story short, I've been an atheist my whole life up until recently where I feel like I need meaning in my life. I've felt drawn towards neo-paganism and felt drawn towards devoting myself to Anpu even though I don't know why considering I've never had anyone I loved pass away or needed protection.

So I wanted to ask: What is devoting yourself to Anpu like and how would you feel like you've seen signs or a calling from them?

Sorry if this came off as offensive in any way and let me know how I can fix my wording.

3 things first: 1. The questions themselves are bolded, the rest of the information is just context and personal commentary. 2. I don't think my tone was that great, but it isn't my intention to disrespect anyone's faith or present "gotcha" questions if it came off like that, sorry :( 3. Since Kemetics aim to put a modern spin on ancient Egyptian religion, some things stated here might not parallel with general Kemetic sentiment. If it did that I'd love to know.

The 42 Confessions: I read some posts here and some think that it is a guideline for how to live morally (and it's the thought that counts, not necessarily the results), despite the fact that the translation I saw the most was just a regular human's (Ani's) recollection of what he did right and wasn't supposed to represent anything for everyone else. Other websites said that because it's basically a list the person recites of sins they didn't do, it has to be personalized, and the heart - feather test is only to see if you lied. Because of this, why are the Confessions actually a good metric to use for where you go after death? There isn't an objective list, and the ones that are common are the ones that most do at least once (lie, steal, gossip, unjustified rage, excessive pride, etc.). If there is a default unwritten list of "given" confessions that should come up (because the most sinful person ever could make a list of 42 niche sins they didn't do) then I think no one would actually reach 42. Also, the way it's designed seems to ask for cherry picking - did you command to kill? No problem, just don't bring that up.

Gods' infallibility: Moreover, it feels like the gods themselves are pretty human - going off the common myths, maybe inaccurate - and that someone like Set would probably do worse at the Negative Confessions than anyone here. Also, they have their fair share of inter-pantheon disputes, so why are they trusted to be able to judge objectively? It feels like their one selling point is they are strong enough to do something and we aren't, especially since apparently you can actually succeed in tricking them using things like the heart scarab.

Hell and Annihilation: There was a different post about the Egyptian afterlife in r/ancientegypt where someone cited an excerpt by Jacobus van Dijk from the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, which can basically be summed up as "actually, the Egyptians did believe in torture for some damned, and it might've been eternal." Do any of you guys believe in that, and if you do how would it relate to the idea of annihilation through Sobek?

Just a piece of Sekhmet 🔆

I'm just getting into this, as I've recently stated trying to contact him and had a few dreams about him. I got the book of the Dead for a Christmas present and I'm going to set that and I heard cedarwood would be good as well. What else can I do/use to make the altar more presentable for him?

Can someone chat with me in DM about Anubis and give me knowledge about him?

So after a bit of thinking I'm positive I want to join this religion, and I researched some of the gods and I'm really drawn to hathor and I want to worship her. I did a ton of research on her, and I'm ready, I have a few ideas for her altar, but I am also looking for a few ideas

Thanks! :)

as it says, Do you gies have any Egyptian themed movies that highlight kemetisem? Most egyptian moves that ive found yousaly portray the gods in a bad away and I wanted put something on for my littel siblings and I about it without portraying the gods in a bad way.

My incense cone remained standing after burning through and I thought it looked really neat. Reminds me of the "tent rocks" near me (pumice columns from an ancient volcano).

is it insulting to have a shared altar for the gods i dont have the room for two different altars so i share the one i have between anubis and bastet i just wanted to know if this is bad or insulting in anyway because i dont want to upset either of them also it was surprising how much of a minimalist bastet is compared to anubis ○( ＾皿＾)っ Hehehe…

Hi I’m new to the group and I was wondering if anyone had some sort of resource(s) about Khepri? The only source I know of that talks about him in “depth” is a book call Ancient Egyptian Magic for Modern Witches by Ellen Cannon Reed.

So... I made a poem for Sekhmet, it's about this Podcast I was listening to "Medical Murders" by Parcast. I learned Sekhmet is a two sided goddess, like Apollo, she's healing but also plague.

I wrote this in a journal entry to Sekhmet, I do them daily, just to make bonds with the gods and get stuff off my chest.

Poem- "It's sad to see a loved man crazed, May be best if he just grazed, Like a gazelle, One could tell, Lady Sekhmet had plagued him as well, Maybe he deserved it to the bell, Though he did smell, Of blood and death, Gods took his breath, Only he could ever say, What happened that day."

I know it's gruesome to think about, but I felt it right, she's known to be fierce, and I felt like I should, which is what I write. I just felt like posting this, mainly cause I SUCK at rhyming without searching up rhymes, but these all came to me right away. so I felt like posting it. I also didn't know what flair/tag to put.

I also asked her if she liked it with Tarot cards and she said post it.

There's a new ancient Egyptian themed game coming out about the ntrw and Kemetic heka. They're starting their crowd-funding soon and it appears to be a board game. They have two people on their team to help with relating the myths with the gaming experience (an Egyptologist and hieroglyphic translator). Hope this brings some delight to gamers here.

Hello all, I hope you're having a lovely day. I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction regarding the question implied by the title of this post.

I see plenty of articles online referencing Nephthys' supposed infertility and mythical relation to vultures, but said articles tend to not actually include any citations to mythological evidence supporting these connections. Would anyone be kind enough to point me in the right direction that I could seek out these primary sources myself? I would be very appreciative of any assistance in this matter. Thank you in advance for your help :)

what offerings could i give to them??

Words from ancient Egyptian language we still use till now in colloquial Egyptian and reached us through Coptic language

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