Seshat is the ancient Egyptian goddess of writing, recordkeeping, libraries, and scribes. She is the goddess of learning, books, and fate. She is the companion of Thoth.
In this book, you will find ancient hymns of the Goddess Seshat, an essay about the Goddess, a festival calendar, and an epithets list.
Happy Birthday to Nebet Het (Nephthys in Greek)! Nebet Het, the Sister of Aset, the Sister of Set, the Daughter of Nut, the Wife of Set, Mother of Yinepu (Anubis) and Wife of Wesir. Nebet Het, the Lady of Kindness, Bright Eyed, Full of Love, Sorceress, Kherseket (She Who Wipes Away Tears) and Merkhetes (She Whose Flame is Painful).
Happy Birthday to Aset, Daughter of Nut, Sister of Nebet Het, Wife of Wesir. Aset, the Fiercely Bright One, Magician, Great of Magic, Cleverest of Gods, She Who Arose in the Beginning as the Magician, Mother of Mothers, with the Beautiful Throne, Thrice Great Goddess!
Chant to Aset, Auset, Iset (Isis) from the Pharaoh’s Golden Parade
Image of the Box, Guidebook and three cards from the Mystic Oracle: Wisdom of the Ancient Greek Pantheon.
This is a review of the Mythic Oracle: Wisdom of the Ancient Greek Pantheon by Carisa Mellado and artwork by Michele-lee Phelan.
Items Included
Cards
A Guidebook
A sturdy box
The Guidebook
This book has a table of contents and each card is listed with the page number, but the cards are not in alphabetical order. They have sections: Protogenoi (Uranus, Hemera, etc.), Titans (Rhea, Prometheus, Mnemosyne, etc.), Olympians (Hera, Hestia, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Aphrodite, Persephone, Hades, Hebe, etc.), Magical Beings (Hecate, Pandora, Chiron, The Moirae, Thanatos), and Heroes (Perseus, Psyche, Helen of Troy, Heracles, etc.).
There is an introduction and then there is a section on spreads to use with the Oracle cards. Each page about each card has an image of the card, a small paragraph about each deity and then a message of the card. The messages are longer than in most decks, but they are insightful, useful, and applicable to the querent’s question. Excellently done.
The Cards
Three Rows of the Cards from the Mystic Oracle.
The cardstock is sturdy. The cards are on the larger size so they are slightly hard to shuffle, but maybe that’s just me.
The artwork is beautiful. Athena has her helmet, spear and owl. Hestia is holding a huge hearthfire. Hecate (Hekate) has three forms (two of which look more maiden like and one is elderly. While the image is beautiful, initially Hecate was a maiden (even three formed Hecate were all maidens and only got the older form in the Roman period, iirc). Hades has a dark cloak. Persephone holds a scepter and it looks like she’s in the Underworld as she’s the Queen of the Underworld. Hera is seated on her throne holding peacock feathers.
Three Rows of Oracle Cards from the Mystic Oracle.
The images are wonderful. I highly recommend this deck to anyone who loves Greek Mythology, Greek Gods and Goddesses and Oracle Decks.
I don’t have enough hymns for my next hymnal book for Aset alone, so I made it into a compilation. I have hymns and inscriptions for Aset (Isis), Hethert (Hathor), Nebet Het (Nephthys), Nekhbet, Tefnut and Set (Seth). Most of the material in this book is for Aset, Tefnut and Set. The title of the book is now Beauty and Strength: Ancient Hymns for Egyptian Gods.
I changed the title of my Mut book. It is now called Sunbeams Fall From Her: An Anthology for Mut.
I’m still working on Lady of Arrows: An Anthology for Neith and Lady of the Library: An Anthology for Seshat. I’m also working on Lady of the Throne: An Anthology for Aset and Lady of the Temple: Ancient Hymns for Nephthys (2nd Edition).
The is a review of the Legendary Ladies Goddess Deck by Ann Shen.
Items Included
A sturdy box
58 Colorful Cards
An 80 page guidebook
The Cards
There are 58 cards! Normally Oracle Decks have 44 cards so this deck has over 10 more Goddesses!
This art is beautiful! The cards are so colorful and great! I love the art! I do not like that they have Aset (Isis) as half naked. Her breasts are covered by her hair. Even Aphrodite and Hathor are fully clothed.
The cardstock is sturdy, but the cards themselves are on the larger side. The shuffling technique may need some adjustment for these cards.
The Goddesses included in this deck come from a wide range of traditions and cultures! Here are a few of them included:
Japanese: Amaterasu, Benten
Chinese: Kwan Yin, Chang-O, Hsi Wang Mu, Mazu, Nuwa
Vietnamese: Lieu Hanh
Hindu: Saraswati, Lakshmi, Parvati, Durga, Kali
Egyptian: Aset (Isis), Sekhmet, Hathor, Ma’at, Bast, Nut
Sumerian: Inanna, Atargatis
Norse/Germanic: Freyja, Hel, Ran
Celtic: Brigit, Morrigan, Arianrhod
Greek: Hecate, Athena, Aphrodite, Artemis, Demeter, the Muses
African: Yemoja (Yemaya), Oya, Oshun, Oba, Mami Wata
Mayan: Ixchel
Inuit: Sedna
Polynesian: Hina
Hawai’ian: Pele, Laka
Native American: Estsanatlehi
The Guidebook
It is 80 pages. There is no table of contents.
The art is colorful. On the pages about the cards, all the Goddesses are listed in alphabetical order. The Goddesses’ names are large and colorful so they are easy to find without a table of contents.
Each page about the cards has: the name of the Goddess, a keyword about them (Isis: Strength; Hecate: Magic), their place of Origin (Egyptian, Greek), a sentence about the Goddess, and then a sentence or two about the card meaning. I wish these had been broken up into two paragraphs (so the piece about the Goddess is one paragraph and then the second has the card meaning).
There is a companion book about the myths of each Goddess by Ann Shen: Legendary Ladies: 50 Goddesses to Empower and Inspire You.
I would highly recommend this deck, especially if you love the art style.