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(Yes, this blog is simply my overdramatic way of happily showing off a new statue)

Like today, an otherwise lazy, unproductive day in which I decided to go shopping downtown for really no reason at all. Of course, downtown is more of a high-class, let's blow a few hundred dollars on a frickin pair of shoes kinda deal (no offense to those who would do that, of course), so I ended up heading for Son of the Pharaoh, the Egyptian-themed giftshop that I frequent. It's been a while since I was… Continue

I woke up early this morning. I fought for a good five minutes with my TV set, reminding myself that I really should set things up a little better, so the simple task of switching from DVD player to cable isn't such a headache. It won't happen. The battle with the TV meant that I had to rush to find the channel I was searching for.

It was on channel 37 that I found what I had been looking for, the reason I had woken up so early: the September 11th memorial ceremony, at the site where the World… Continue

I'm sure most of us have 'em. That big list of goals we want to accomplish before we die, so we're not spending our final days mentally kicking ourselves in the arse for all the time wasted...or maybe that's just me. I can pretty much only speak for myself, because I'm so out of touch with humanity most of the time.

Still, the list is there. It includes things from the more or less impossible to the maybe-if-I-won-the-lottery to the normal things that I should have done by now but for some stup… Continue

Today, August 7th, is the Kemetic holiday of Wep Ronpet, or, the Kemetic New Year.

Usual celebrations include the reciting of prayers at sunrise, bringing out our icons/statues to "Kiss the Face of Ra" (to place them in the light of the rising sun), symbolically smiting the force known to us as ifset, and symbolically slaying the serpent known as Apep, both of which seek to undo all that which is good in the world.

This was my first Wep Ronpet as a Kemetic Orthodox Shemsu, so I was fairly dete… Continue

Tonight, I attended a Kemetic Orthodox Naming ceremony. The Naming is the final step of a rite of passage into Kemetic Orthodoxy, marking one's commitment to serve as a full member of the faith. It marks the end of a long journey to the faith, and the beginning of a (hopefully) even longer journey within it. In the ritual, the person is given a special Kemetic name, given to them by their Parent god(s), divined by the Nisut of Kemetic Orthodoxy.

Almost four months ago to the date, I was one of… Continue