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It’s time! The Ancient Egyptian Daybook project is on Kickstarter!
See the Kickstarter Project here! After a year of reviewing and getting feedback from other Kickstarter pioneers, a project I’ve been putting together for even longer is ready to become reality. The Ancient Egyptian Daybook, a follow-up to the Ancient Egyptian Prayerbook project, will include all of my research and information on ancient Egypt’s festival…
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Winter holidays: This one goes up to eleven
A Twitter acquaintance linked to an article called 11 Winter Holidays You Might Not Know About today. While checking my feed, I clicked on it, because I’m always curious about cultural expressions, and I like to test my knowledge. Imagine my utter surprise when I read the last holiday on the list. Number 11 is…
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The Mysteries of Osiris (Wesir)
This week, we start a big celebration in the ancient Egyptian religion, that of the Mysteries of Wesir (called Osiris by the Greeks). According to our Kemetic Orthodox calendar, the festival starts today, and goes through the week. We’ll be celebrating it together, both online at simulcast ceremonies, and offline at Tawy House starting on…
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October, already?
Hard to believe the summer’s gone and we’re back in October already. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Parsley Massacre in the Dominican Republic, something I wrote a long article about last year, which I mentioned at length in Haitian Vodou. Haiti is still very much on my mind. Though I admit this summer, I’ve…
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Aset’s Oracle for Year 20 (for Kemet’s new year beginning 3 August 2012)
The Year 20 Oracle of Aset, spoken at Aset Luminous, 2012
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