Category: Blog
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A Heb-Wer update: random news
Happy Heb Wer (the “great festival” of Heru-wer or Horus the Elder, for those who aren’t in my faith)! This is always a fun festival, even if it’s a little chilly here for hawk-watching…. So, what’s up around here? Let’s summarize.
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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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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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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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Aset’s Oracle for Year 19 (beginning 3 August 2011)
The long-awaited Oracle of Aset has just been printed for the Retreat crew, who will all see it tomorrow morning. Since you couldn’t be with us, consider this an early Wep Ronpet present 🙂 The Year 19 Oracle – for the Kemetic Orthodox Year beginning 3 August, 2011 (I Akhet 1, Wepet Ronpet) Year 19…