Hi guys, how are you? Guys, do any of you worship a pharaoh? And if they worship, what is his name? And how do you worship? Like some kind of messenger spirit or like a god? I have this curiosity. And I have another question too. Can Sekhmet and Bastet be seen as the same goddess? I'm very curious because some things have happened to me that make me understand that they are the same divinity. But maybe it's all in my head. And if any of you have anything, I would appreciate it.

Hi, maybe some of you read the post I made a few days ago under “pray request” flair; well something strange happened today. I had this strange dream where I was alone in a forest and suddenly someone approached me… at first I thought it was a big cat, but once the animal came closer I think it was a lynx…? Anyway, it was really friendly but then suddenly ran off. Once it (she?) came back and handed me a skull which was broken. Then she spoke and said it’s okay - ran off again and came back with a non-broken one.

Then I also went somewhere in the dark (the same dream) and I actually felt safe despite of being in a forest at night. I always loved the moon it’s magical, it draws me in and I’m a typical night person — clearly I’m connected to Khonsu so I don’t know what this means.

Another explanation is that it wasn’t Sekhmet but Bastet who I met because I have a cat who’s half inside and half outside (adopted stray who doesn’t want to be inside 24/7) and I haven’t seen him for a few days 😭 he’s neutered though.

Anyone who works with these two Neteru willing to explain what this could mean? Did one of them call me? Or tried to deliver a message and I’m too dumb to understand them? Or did I see a different Neter entirely?

Anyway, I apologize you had to read allat.

She's been on my mind today and I remember way back then, if I came across fallen pigeon feathers I'd pick them up, bring them home and clean them to offer them to Ma'at. I'm not sure if that's even useful to her or anything. But I was wondering, can fake feathers be offered to her? Or even just the pigeon ones I offered years ago for that matter?

Last night I had a dream in which I was back in high school and we were performing a play set in Ancient Egypt. I was cast for some reason as Sobek and I feel as though this may represent that he wants to work with me since I was allowed to embody him in the dream. However I have to wonder why he would want to work with me. I’ve never really had a particular interest in him before (no offence to him of course, it’s just that I feel like I have a stronger affinity for other gods). His main domain seems to be water and fertility but I’m a lesbian who definitely never wants children so I don’t think it can be because of that. Does anyone have any ideas/advice?

So I’ve had ghosts threaten me and I’ve been calling in Anpu (Anubis), Sobek and Horus. Finally it stopped when I called in Sobek, but I still felt really anxious and don’t want to go to bed, as it happens at night. It’s gotten to the point that I’m considering calling in Sekhmet - but I don’t know much about Sekhmet and I hear she is a bit blood thirsty and brutal. Should I ask her for help? Or should I leave it?
I don’t know at the moment. I’ve always had ghost issues and im starting to get sick of it.

Genuine Question: Do we take the myths literally? I've seen many HellPolls (I'm aware they're not the same but as far as I'm aware they're both pagan) saying NOT to the myths literally. im unsure if it's the same with KemPoll? Do we take the Myths literally? is there a rule against it? I'm sorta new and I wanna do it "correctly" so it's abit confusing. if we don't then how do we learn about the Gods without mixing up Myth with Reality etc?

A friend on fb was looking for this:

I see this claim of an ancient Egyptian proverb every so often and I've never come across an actual source. Does anyone know if there is an actual reference for this, or is it just false information?

"The kingdom of heaven is within you, and he who knows himself will find it"

-- I realize it's almost like asking to prove a negative. Thanks!

So I know that lying is considered isfet, but is it really that black and white? Like I feel like the Netjeru are understanding enough that a lie said in the effort to protect yourself or others wouldn’t be isfet at all.

For example: tonight my very fundamentalist conservative xtian father asked me if I’ve been reading my Bible (I’m 27 for reference and have expressed extremely different views to his, which he can’t even debate on he just defaults to agree to disagree even with facts in his face, though I still masquerade as a xtian around him and my parents for safety reasons) and I told him that I have. I feel like I didn’t commit isfet because saying I haven’t would have created problems?

For a not personal example: Somebody in Nazi Germany lying and saying they don’t have any Jewish people hiding in their home even though they do, or somebody in the States lying about hiding their undocumented immigrant friend.

But what is the truth? Is it really across the board isfet?

For me i wear all (insert color of the god) and i always wash my hands before touching the altar

I recently did an offering and prayers using visualizations and feeling the energy going into my my visualization. I called upon the goddess Auset and visualized her protecting, healing my friend while feeling the energy going into my visualization.

Today she told me she had a dream about being in hell and a man protecting her from fire and snakes

What are your thoughts on this? Could this been a sign that my offering and prayers worked?

Pic isn't the greatest and it's one week into healing. Bast incorporates a few details about my beautiful daughter cat that passed a couple years ago. The sigil is reclaimed ars goetia; they stole Ishtar/Astarte/Sekhmet and refashioned her as a great duke of hell. I deny that, but the symbol is great comfort when incorporated as Her mark.

The meme was added to more light heartedly bring some of the issues im having, so yall dont have to read me venting. I'm also having doubts about the religion as a whole. I mean, I've always struggled with religion cause of my mental issues but now with my self doubt and such I think sometimes that the gods dont want me to worship them. I mean I doubt they'd care one way or the other because they are God's after all, but I keep thinking that maybe sekhmets silence in those two moments of "connection" I had where it felt like somone was listing was her way of telling me to go away. I haven't even really tried reaching out to Djehuty because of my doubts and my lack of an altar. I don't even know what I'd say to him. I've debated just giving up on the religion, probably evident by my statements about me thinking the gods wouldn't want me worshipping them but that's probably just my brain overthinking and projecting my own self hatred onto gods who probably dont care one way or the other. I was thinking I'd last build the travel alter box for sekhmet before I decide to quit the the religion or not, although I'm planning to do much less work intensive version using pre processed wood instead of old pine logs and putting it together. This would also allow me to get a kind of wood that shed prefer over just what I have access to so if you have any recomendations that would be greatly appreciated. I will probably stop wearing the pins for now cause that's just an aesthetic thing and it dosnt help the feeling of being an imposter or poser sometimes when I talk about this religion at all. I'll probably delete this and most of my other posts shortly

Hi guys, how are you? I would like to know, in your opinion, what the nature of the gods is, what the gods are, in this general question.

Hi guys, how are you? Do you have a website or anything that shows the Ancient Egyptian calendar? I can't seem to find exactly the right one. You can show anyone, I want me to take my time, you know? Festivals or those that you think are even better, like that, at some point. If you can, please.

I just really want to know and celebration's that i can do with bastet as i love her a want to worship her more in other ways than i already do and it may sound rude but can anyone just tell me what i could do though i do worship on international cat day which is a day before my birthday (❁´◡`❁) so i feel like its fate but i need more please help

I’m Texan and as a Texan/🇲🇽🇺🇸 I’m SO PUMPED for fiesta and I want to go SO SO badly (havent been for the past few years cause it’s expensive/family stuff) and I thought it’d be fun and silly to doodle me and the gang (gang being Anpu and Set) enjoying fiesta season!!!! Gave up halfway through…

hellooo !! i recently was writing something for school and decided to kind of tie it into Anpu- thru this i learned that in some stories, Anpu is actually referred to as the son of Nephthys and Osiris of which Nephthys left Set and seduced Osiris which is how Anpu was born (then he was abandoned where Isis found him and so on). as i continued to research and whatnot, i found that Set had actually murdered Osiris and that's how the act of embalming and such came around

im curious about why exactly he murdered Osiris ? i found that it was due to jealousy as Osiris was the king of Egypt but im wondering if there's any other variations of this that have been told over time ? im mainly wondering about this due to the fact that some people refer to Anpu as the son of Set, some refer to him as the son of Ra, and some refer to him as the son of Osiris, so i can't help but wonder if other variations of this exist and if there's other reasons as to why Set would murder Osiris- or if there's variations where Osiris died in another way and just anything like that

i apologize if this one's an odd question, i am still a newer kemetic and am slowly learning as i come across new info. i also apologize if this is written weirdly- Anpu is one of my interests as an autistic person and i tend to go over a lot of info even if someone (or the majority of people in this case) may already be aware of it

may the Netjeru bless you 🖤 ! !

This may sound like an unserious question but I’m genuinely curious. I have an alter dedicated to the Netjeru I worship in my room and I wonder if spending some “private time” or having sex with my partner in the same room as them is considered inappropriate in any way?

I'm neither jewish nor a kemeticist, but I enjoy learning about the past and recently I've become somewhat interested in reading about jewish relationships with other cultures such as the greeks, and how judaism evolved over time.

Recently I read Ancient Egyptian gods in the talmud The Egyptian Gods in midrashic Texts which is about how Egyptian gods are portrayed in rabbinic texts such as the Talmud. While very few Egyptian gods are mentioned by name, the rabbis were aware of Egyptian religious icons and used them as metaphors for Rome and new religous groups like the gnostics and Christians to establish rabbinic concepts in contrast to these competing ideologies, and Egypt was for them the ultimate symbol of "the other".

I would like to ask this sub on your opinion on the Exodus and the depiction of Egyptian gods in jewish writings as related in the linked paper. Since the Exodus is about the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt its understandable that the Egyptian pantheon would be portrayed in a negative light, and the point is the god is superior in power to them-the ten plagues of Egypt all affect some aspect of the major Egyptian gods who are helpless to protect their afflicted followers.

I'm curious about how someone who follows the Egyptian pantheon interprets the Exodus. Do you find it insulting to portray Yahweh as superior in power to them?

If there are any jewish members of this sub, I want to ask if judaism is inherently hostile towards the Egyptian pantheon/traditional religion because of the Exodus account and because Judaism forbids idolatry. I'm aware that there are jewish neo-pagans, but I don't know how many of them are religiously jewish too.

Do you feel that your patron deity is external to you or an inner part of you (as in you feel, see, think or even embody characteristics of the deity)? Perhaps they are somewhere in between your external and internal world (where would that be?)

How do you in turn honor your divinity?

I dreamed that a man wanted to steal the ankh, but I didn't let that happen. Before this dream happened, I prayed to Anubis so that I could have a dream with him or about him, but I don't know what this dream means (I'm using a translator, so I'm sorry for any mistakes).

Hotep my friends!

Today I officially dedicate myself to Lord Set, my guardian as I go forth by day. I get this cartouche above my greatest victory, my scar from when Set got me through the hardest part of my life.

Years before joining the faith I was stricken with a herniated disc on the L5 vertebrae that rendered me unable to walk and unable to work. I spent nights in agony, basically bedridden in constant pain, until I was delivered by my lord by way of emergency surgery. The pain I endured was only possible because of Set’s strength in me, and it is because of my strength I now brand myself as a man of Set.

May he watch over each of you as you go forth, may blessings and strength be given to you, my brothers and sisters. Dua Set, Dua Netjeru! ❤️

Hi guys, how are you? Guys, I have two questions. Firstly, do you think that nowadays it is possible to create, with a lot of study, your own Kemetism, your own temple, with your own rituals, your own things, focusing on the past, but modernizing, adding more modern things? Do you think it is possible or not? It's because I know there are some, but I'd like to know people's opinions in general, right? And my second question is, if you were to become priests and create a temple, would you use the same names that were used in the past, or would you create new names and everything? Oh, and I think I'm going to ask one more question. To be a Kemetist, you think you need to study everything about Egypt, or simply know about the pharaohs, the gods and some cultural issues, but not everything, right? Because I know that there are many who study everything because they go to college, they managed to study history, but not everyone can, so studying everything wouldn't be possible, because there would be a lot of ignorance, a lot of things that an ordinary person wouldn't know. So, to be a Kemetist, at least studying the basics about the pharaohs, the dynasties and the gods is worth even being a priest as well.

Hello!

I'm currently doing some research on ancient egyptian festivals and celebrations. I have found some holidays online and information about them as well, but I feel like there are more that I can't find...

My question is: Do you know any ancient egyptian festivals? Especially for gods like Maat, Ra, Bastet, Seshat, Horus, Seth, Shed, Nephtys? I would also appreciate if you tell me some information (or sources) on how to celebrate the festivals? And the dates, if you know them.

Thank you!

It’s missing the typical fancy top that these bottles have but my cats have pretty long whiskers so seeing them poke out at the top is cute, and 2$ was a steal. Dua Bast! I love collecting my boys’ whiskers for her.