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Magic for the New Year – Ptah’s Building Heka for Year 19
Happy New Year 2012 to all of you! My Kemetic Orthodox readers have already heard this from me; our religious new year started in August. At that time, during our Wep Ronpet (“Opening the Year,” the ancient name of the New Year festival) retreat, we shared a bit of heka with each other to usher…
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Wesir (Osiris) Mysteries, 2011
This is a very special and holy season for the Kemetic Orthodox, the season of the Mysteries of Wesir (the Osiria). In 2009, I wrote a series of meditations over the night of the vigil we kept here at Tawy House: God is Dead: Thoughts about the Mysteries of Wesir Advancing with Your Ka: Thoughts…
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Remembering the Cutting – 1937’s “Parsley Massacre”
I mention this event briefly in Haitian Vodou: An Introduction to Haiti’s Indigenous Spiritual Tradition, but it deserves far more space and publicity than it received there. Most people living in the Western world, when asked about genocide, immediately think of the Holocaust (HaShoah), or perhaps more recent “ethnic cleansing” campaigns carried out in various…
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15 (make that 16!) new Remetj! Nekhtet!
Em hotep! Please join me in welcoming 15 16 new Remetj to the Kemetic Orthodox Faith! Flower of California Mark of Michigan Avy of California Jody of Texas David of Georgia Marz of West Virginia Siegwald of Colombia Ty of Nevada Tina of North Carolina Ronnie of North Carolina Brittney of Florida Bevvie of Ireland…
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Six months from Monday – it’s finally coming!
I survived the marketing meeting, with the help of Ru (a.k.a. “Loudcat,” who opted to interrupt the Skyping with his presence), and am delighted to announce a release date for my latest book, Haitian Vodou: An Introduction to Haiti’s Indigenous Spiritual Tradition. Watch this blog and Llewellyn’s website for more information about the book, upcoming…
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