Work-in-Progress – Fiercely Bright One

Some may find it hard to go into shrine right now. Or maybe you just want something simple to do outside of shrine. If you are looking for inspiration to honor Them outside of shrine, I have a few ideas:

1) Find them in the nature around you. Shu, Nebet Het and Aset are associated with breath. The Eyes of Ra manifests in the sunbeams or starlight. Nut is the night sky. Go outside and spend time with Them. Breathe and think of Their Names.

2) Say a prayer before you eat, offer your meal and then eat it.

3) Can you wear jewelry? Wear something you’ve dedicated to them, like a necklace, ring or bracelet.

4) You could wear clothes with colors that remind you of Them. (Blue or purple for Aset, black or purple for Nebet Het, white for any of the Netjeru).

5) Is there a Netjeru over your profession? Offer your workshift to Them.

6) Do creative projects. Call on Seshat or Djehuty for writing, call on Aset or Hethert for arts and crafts.

7) Do something you love and invite Them.

8) Offer to Taweret, Aset, Hethert, Mut or Bast and clean your home. Offer to Bes or Bast or whomever to protect your home.

9) Breathe. They are There. Gods and Goddesses of air and wind are with you when you breathe. So breathe.

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Reminder: Wepwawet Anthology

March 4, 2020 jewelofaset

Reminder Post

If anyone has any more submissions to send to the Wepwawet book, feel free to send them in! And I am going to email you immediately and send you the permissions form. I must have the permissions form filled out or I cannnot accept your submission!

Deadline: March 7, 2020

Information about the Wepwawet anthology can be found here: Lord of the Ways.

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Books Update

February 16, 2020 jewelofaset

Solar Lioness: Ancient Hymns for Sekhmet (Ready to Send to Formatter)
Mother of Nine: An Anthology for Oya (almost done)
River, Star and Sky: Poems for the Egyptian Gods. (Work in Progress)
Lady of Magic: Honoring Aset Today (Work in Progress)
Queen of Kings/Creation Mother: Ancient Hymns for Mut (working title) is going to take longer as I’m hoping to be able to include the Crossword Hymn to Mut in it. (Work in Progress)
Lord of the Ways: An Anthology for Wepwawet (Work in Progress)
Water Lioness: Ancient Hymns for Tefnut (Work in Progress)
Lord of Eternity: An Anthology for Osiris (Work in Progress)
Two Horizons: Ancient Hymns for Egyptian Gods. (Work in Progress)

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Goddess Spell Books

December 14, 2019 jewelofaset

I have a love-hate relationship with Goddess Spell Books. On the one hand, I love them. I love goddesses, learning about them and seeing many goddesses from all around the globe in one book warms my heart. On the other, I often find some factual errors or a very simplistic view of the goddess in question. Aphrodite gets pigeonholed into the love goddess archetype all the time. And She is a love goddess, but She is also a war goddess, a goddess of roses, a sea goddess, a mourning goddess and a Lady of the Graves.

Isis and Hathor get confused all the time. Hathor is the goddess of motherhood, romance, love, beauty, music and dance. Isis is the goddess of magic, a mother of Horus, a goddess of familial love and self-possession, a goddess of beauty, and a grieving widow. They are not the same goddess!

As for the factual errors:

Hathor is married to Horus the Elder (Heru Wer) and not Heru-sa-Aset (Horus, son of Isis). These are not the same god.
Oya’s main animal is the water buffalo
Nephthys is not a battered wife and Set is not evil
Isis is a moon goddess due to Roman influence. The ancient Egyptian Aset is a solar and stellar goddess. Aset’s association with the moon is due to Wesir and Heru being killed/harmed and reborn/healed.

Anyway, I would like to see a Goddess spell book have many goddesses from one pantheon and having them be in different categories because they have more than one aspect.

Like for a Learning/School section, you could have Seshat as the Goddess of education, math, writing, organization and libraries and Aset, the Lady of all knowledge, writing and research.

For a home and hearth section, you could have Bast as guardian of the home, Nephthys as Lady of the House, Hathor as a home goddess and Taweret as the home goddess. Aset was also honored this way in the Late Period.

For prosperity and abundance, you could have Aset as Lady of Prosperity and Hethert (Hathor) as Lady of Abundance.

For beauty and self-love, you could have Aset, Hathor, Mut and Tefnut for various reasons.

For protection and strength (mental, physical, spiritual), you could have Aset, Possessor of Strength and Eye of Ra and various other Eyes of Ra like Mut, Bast, Sekhmet, Nit (Neith), and Tefnut.

For creativity and art, you could have Nit as the creatrix, Hathor as the Lady of the arts, music and dance and Aset as Lady of the Arts.

For change, sorrow and grief, Aset and Nephthys as the mourning women and Ladies of transformation.

For compassion, you could have Aset, Nephthys and Nut as the Ladies of Kindness.

Anyway, so here are my thoughts on this.

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We Walk With You

September 20, 2019 jewelofaset

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My religion has many creation myths and all of them are true. They tell us about creation. Atum masturbated and Ptah spoke and everything was created. The Celestial Cow as Mut or Hethert or Mehet Weret or Nit gave birth to the sun god Ra and as She spoke everything was created. Aset spoke the Word in the Beginning as did Nit and everything was created.

The other Gods, the air in the form of Shu, moisture in the form of Tefnut; Geb and Nut in the forms of earth and sky. Ma’at and Life in the forms of Ma’at, Tefnut and Shu. Ra, Shu, and the Eye Goddesses gave birth to light. Wesir, Heru Wer, Set, Aset and Nebet Het were born and thus more was created by them.

Do you not see? One became many. Creation cannot exist without differentiation. There are many Netjeru for a reason. For each job to be performed, someone must be equipped to do it. Some of Us have the same job, yet do it differently. To borrow a phrase: Diversity is Our Power; Unity is Our Strength.

All of nature is touched by these Gods and Goddesses. Sunbeams are Ra, Mut, Tefnut, Bast, Sekhmet, Aset and other solar Goddesses. The air you breathe is Shu or Aset. The earth you stand on is Geb.

Continue reading “We Walk With You” →

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Future Projects

August 28, 2019 jewelofaset

I have tons of projects I’m working on right now. I’d like to narrow my focus so I can get a few of them done.

Solar Lioness: Ancient Hymns for Sekhmet.
Creation Mother: Ancient Hymns for Mut. (As someone else is helping me with this via translation, this will take longer).
River, Star and Sky: Poems for the Egyptian Gods.
Lord of the Ways: An Anthology for Wepwawet. (Due date for submissions is January 7, 2020)
Lady of Magic: Honoring Aset Today.
Hymns of the Two Lands: Ancient Hymns for Egyptian Gods.
Mother of Nine: An Anthology for Oya.

On a separate note, I need help for figuring out the title of Mut’s book:

Lady of the Double Crown
Creation Mother
Mother, Queen and Matriarch
Queen Mother