Bibliotheca Alexandrina is making a call for submissions for a Set and Djehuty (Thoth) devotional! Here is the link for more information: Set and Djehuty book.
Submission deadline is August 1st 2016.
Month: May 2016
Updates on My Projects
I have sent in the permissions for Lady of the Sky: Ancient Hymns of the Goddess Aset from the Temple of Dendera. We’ll see what they say. I’m still waiting.
I have been compiling all the material for this book She Who Speaks Through Silence: An Anthology of Nebet Het (Nephthys). I am still waiting on some submissions.
And I have been editing Magician, Mother and Queen: A Paper of the Goddess Aset. This is an expansion on a paper I submitted to enter Graduate School. Anyway, the 20 page paper has become 90 pages long. I’m also not too sure about the title. I got two of the permissions back for this project. I am waiting on the third permissions.
I am compiling a compilation of scholarly papers I wrote in Graduate school (and afterward) about various goddesses, Orishas and a saint (Mary); and I have one other essay about women’s healing and talismanry (I know it doesn’t fit, but I have no idea where else I could publish it. I may take it out and publish it by itself. I’m not sure.). I’m thinking of making this into another book. My working title is Holy Lady, Holy Queen: Papers on the Feminine Divine.
I also have a poetry book for various Goddesses (and a few Gods) to finish and publish. I had a name in mind for the title, but with the additions of the Gods, I can’t really use it. My working title is Poetry of the Divine.
So these are all my non-fiction projects.
A Thought about Prosperity and Beauty
Power coming from beauty is confidence and being seated upon your own seat, upon your own throne. This is the power of the Goddess of Beauty. Not sex. Yes, it can be included, but it doesn’t have to be.
Aset is a Goddess of Beauty and sex is not Her perview. She is the Lady of the Throne. She sits on Her seat as the Queen of Herself and Her nation. Like Her, you must be filled with confidence and self-possession. Like Her, you must be filled with pride and prosperity.
Prosperity is not just money. Wealth is not just money. Wealth is the power of the self. To attract abundance, you must know where you want to go and how you will get there. You must know your goals and how you can achieve them. Once you ask from this spot, the worlds collide and align and weave your own power into the energy of the Universe.
And through your clear intention, plans and hard work, then and only then–
Then and only then, will you gain what you desire.
Updated Festivals of Bast or Bast-Mut
Festivals for Bast or Bast-Mut
compiled by Chelsea Luellon Bolton
2nd Akhet/Paopi/September
10-Procession of Bast, Goddess of Ankhtawy
18-Eve of the Festival of Opet
19 to 3 Akhet 10 (24 days)-Festival of Opet
3rd Akhet/Hethara/October
1-Speech of Sekhmet-Bast
20-Procession of Bast, Mistress of Ankhtawy, Before Ra She is Angry
29-Speech of Bast
4th Akhet/Koiak/November
10-Speech of Bast, Lady of Memphis
12-Speech of the Image of Bast
15-Feast of Sekhmet and Bast
1 Peret/Tybi/December
3-Feast of the Drunkenness of the Eye of Ra
19-Speech of Bast
19-Feast of Bast
20-Procession of Bast Who Protects the Two Lands
21-Bast Guards the Two Lands
28 to 2 Peret Day 4-The Distant Goddess Returns from Nubia (6 day festival)
29-Bast and Sekhmet Guide the Two Lands
2 Peret/Mechir/January
29-Feast of the Navigation of Bast
4 Peret/Parmuthi/March
1-Feast of Ra and the Eye of Ra
4-Day of Chewing Onions for Bast
11-Speech of Bast
2 Shomu/Payni/May
16-Feast of Bast, Purifying Sekhmet
Sources
Bakir, Abd el-Mohsen. The Cairo Calendar No. 86637. Cairo, 1966.
Brier, Bob. Ancient Egyptian Magic. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1980.
Cauville, Sylvie. Dendara XV: Traduction. Peeters, 2012.
El-Sabban, Sherif. Temple Festival Calendars of Ancient Egypt. Wiltshire: Liverpool University Press, 2000.
Spalinger, Anthony. Three Studies on Egyptian Feasts and Their Chronological Implications. (Maryland: Halgo, 1992
Sauneron, Serge. Esna V: Les fetes religieuses d’esna aux derniers siecles du paganisme. Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 2004.
Siuda, Tamara. The Ancient Egyptian Prayerbook. Illinois: Stargazer Design, 2009.
Queen of the Road is Now Available!
I have published the paperback and PDF version of Queen of the Road: Poetry of the Goddess Aset! Here is more information about the book: Queen of the Road Page.
Here is the Paperback: Queen of the Road
Here is the PDF version: PDF Queen of the Road
I have published some poems previously on my blog under the Oracles tab. Take a look if you want a small preview or sample of my work.
Edited: Epithets of Wesir
Beloved of Nut
Beloved of Ra
Beloved of Your Two Images
Born of Heru-Ra of the Two Horizons
Born the Image of the God of Gods
Brilliant One
Bull of Amenti
Bull of the Two Goddesses
Bull of the West
the Coptite
Dweller in the Underworld
Eldest in the Body of His Mother Nut
Eldest Born
Enshrouded One
First of the Five
Foremost of the Land of the Lake
Foremost of Westerners
Foremost of the West
Giver of Years
Gold of Millions
God Above the Heavens
Great God
Great Heir of Geb
Great One Among the Gods
Guide
Guided on His Path by His Sister Aset
He at the Head of the West
He Who Awakens Whole at the Head of the Living
He Who Comes into Being in the Dark
He Who is in the God’s Tent
He Who is in the Heart of the Gods
Head of the Western Land
Heir of Geb
Heir of the Two Thrones
Hidden One
Inert One
King of Kings, Lord of Lords
King of the Gods
King of the West Who Commands the Region of Silence
Male One of Amenti
Messenger of Heaven to Earth
Mysterious One
Leader
Lord Worthy of Many Hundreds and Thousands of Praises
Lord of Abydos
Lord of Bounty
Lord of Busiris
Lord of Egypt
Lord of the Ennead
Lord of Eternity
Lord of Fear
Lord of Great Fear and Trembling
Lord of Life
Lord of Love
Lord of Rosetau
Lord of the Assembly
Lord of the Dead
Lord of the Holy Country
Lord of the Holy Land
Lord of the Living
Lord of the Mysteries in the Mysterious Place
Lord of the Pomegranate Nome
Lord of the Royal Crown
Lord of the Sky
Lord of the Ways
Lord of the West
Lord of the White Crown
Lord of Women
Of Many Paths
Of the South
On His Throne
One Beloved of Gods and Goddesses
One Foremost in the House of Gold
One Who Inspires Dread in Busiris
One Who is in His Shrine
One Who Places Sokar on His Sledge
Opener of Ways to the Gods
Power of the Gods
Powerful in Abydos
Prince
Prince Great in His Terror
Ram Who Dwells in Busiris
Resplendent One with the White CrownRuler of Eternity
Ruler of Rulers
Ruler of the Region of Silence
Ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt
Ruler Who is in Abydos
Shu Who has Risen in the Great Opet
Son of Nut
Soul of Ra
Strong One
Strong One Among the Gods
Sweet Lord
The Terrible
Uniter of Heaven to Earth
Unique God
Veiled One
Virile Infant
Wennefer-Beneficient One
Who Annihilates His Enemies
Who Behold the Two Goddesses United
Who Causes His Shadow Daily in the Land
Who Causes Himself to Come into Being
Who Causes the Inundation
Who comes from Herakleopolis
Who Contains in Himself the Mysterious Power of Birth into New Life
Who Destroys the Souls in Revolt Against Him
Whose Heart Palpitates Not
Who is in His Coffin
Who is Unknown to Mankind
Whose Places are Mysterious
Whose Soul Lives
Whose Word Destroys His Enemies
Who Repulses His Enemies
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pages 122-124; 126-127; 131; 132-133; 133-134; 136;
Fiercely Bright One 