Black Spirituality Religion : Kemetic Reconstructionists

[jamesfrmphilly]

Well, if that be the case, then the whole "project" is irrelevant.

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[Da Street So'ja]

of course i "KNOW" you don't "See" progress

I don't see "progress."

I see division.

When this so-called "project" was first introduced, it appears to have received a lot of support and enthusiasm.

Now, when the "majority" or like-minded have discussed some of the beliefs in this forum, all was well; but when a "minority" was introduced, there was swift, immediate, and vehement opposition to their views.

So, like I said, I wish you all well in your endeavors to delve into whatever "truths and wisdom" or "lies" any of you seek to reveal.

of course you "SEE" division

if you have 50 people who follow rat poison to be good for people

and a 100 come and say it's no good, you'd rather say because the 50 are "like minded" you deem that to be a good thing though the rat poison is a bad thing

also I'M NOT ON ANY ENDEAVORS YOU'RE THE ONE WHO STARTED THIS
PROJECT I DON'T HAVE TO DELVE INTO ANYTHING

I'M ALREADY HERE, I'M JUST WAITING FOR YOU SIS CB

you're too intelligent to leave you behind IMO

and again OF COURSE YOU "SEE" DIVISON i "SEE" THE IRONY

see i have great respect for you



i'm bowing again

 

[cherryblossom]

of course you "SEE" division

also I'M NOT ON ANY ENDEAVORS YOU'RE THE ONE WHO STARTED THIS
PROJECT I DON'T HAVE TO DELVE INTO ANYTHING

I'm not on any "endeavors" either, So'ja. My "experiment" yesterday was proven to my satisfaction.

But, THIS PROJECT on belief systems was started in 2006 by KemetKind and Destee and some others.

So, all I did was bring attention back to it. Cuz I sho nuff got LOTS of attention when I posted in the Christianity forum. LOL!

So, again, I wish YOU and the others well in your "PROJECT."

 

[Da Street So'ja]

HELLLL-OOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm not on any "endeavors" either, So'ja. My "experiment" yesterday was proven to my satisfaction.

But, THIS PROJECT on belief systems was started in 2006 by KemetKind and Destee and some others.

So, all I did was bring attention back to it. Cuz I sho nuff got LOTS of attention when I posted in the Christianity forum. LOL!

So, again, I wish YOU and the others well in your "PROJECT."

you used the word endeavor and YOU said you were doing an experiment
and a project not me I'M JUST THE MIRROR IN FRONT OF YOU
so why you coming at me like that lol

these are your comments

It was all a part of my test.
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it was all just a part of my own little "experiment."

then you say i'm exhibit A

I would like to present "EXHIBIT A"...
And, again, I wish you all well in your endeavors to examine "truths and wisdoms" within each belief system here.

ending with my "endeavor", which is false also you mentioned destee and kementkind started this in 2006, your OP didn't indicate any of that
there are 500,000 posts here is hard to know them all especially if your not the author of that post

this is just like the "psychology" threads you posted, you just posted the test
and i respond to the test and you say no i meant to show this and show that
but your OP just had the test, it's the same here, you give now reference

then you yourself say this is an experiment for you and by going on to
use me as Exhibit A enhances my point

So, again, I wish YOU and the others well in your "PROJECT."

again i've already told you i'm not on an endeavor or project so i would appreciate if you would stop saying this

 

[Da Street So'ja]

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Kemetic Reconstructionism ("Kemet" is the ancient word for Egypt) is a form of reconstructionist Neopagan religion that seeks to recreate ancient Egyptian religion as accurately as possible, based primarily on the latest research of Egyptologists.

Cultural and linguistic adaptions are made to ancient beliefs and rituals in order to preserve their meaning for modern followers, but eclecticism and adaptation is generally rejected in favor of authenticity.

Followers are referred to as Kemetic Reconstructionists or Kemetics.

Organization and Priesthood

There are many Kemetic organizations, but also a good number of Kemetic reconstructionists who are not part of any specific organization. Membership in an organization is not compulsory to worship the ancient Egyptian gods.

The largest Kemetic organization is the House of Netjer or Kemetic Orthodoxy, founded in the late 1980s by Tamara L. Siuda. It gained official recognition in the U.S. as a religion in 1994. Siuda underwent her coronation as Nisut-Bity (Pharaoh) in 1996 through ceremonies performed in Egypt, and is now known formally within her faith as "Her Holiness, Sekhenet-Ma'at-Ra setep-en-Ra Hekatawy I, Nisut-Bity of the Kemetic Orthodox faith." (See below for more on the role of Pharoah.) In 2000 Siuda earned a master's degree in Egyptology. The House of Netjer is headquarted at the Tawy House temple in Joliet, Illinois, and followers of the faith around the world correspond via the internet.

Several Kemetic temples and organizations maintain Egyptian-style priesthoods, with a hierarchy of part-time and full-time priests in addition to a chief priest embodied in the pharaoh or ruler. These organizations include the Kemetic Orthodox House of Netjer, Per-Ankh, the Church of the Eternal Source, the Akhet Hwt-Hrw and the Nuhati-am-Nutjeru, among other lesser-known groups.

Some Kemetics maintain, in keeping with the reconstructionist ideal, that the existence of a living Pharaoh (a Hebrew word; the Egyptian term is Nisut) is still required. This idea is rooted in an ancient belief that a "land without kingship" was a land that had lost its connection to Ma'at, and that the Pharaoh was a priest-king, the servant of both the gods and the people of Egypt. The largest Kemetic group, the House of Netjer, recognizes its founder, Egyptologist Rev. Tamara Siuda, as Nisut.

Other Kemetic organizations reject this idea, citing the abuse of power that could occur with a modern Pharoah. Instead, they recognize the Egyptian idea of kingship as a symbolic meeting of men and their gods and fulfill it by means of councils such as were convened in ancient Egypt during times of civil war or times of unrest when the line of normal kingly succession was not clear.

Beliefs

Kemetic Reconstructionists honor the ancient Egyptian gods, whom they call by their original Egyptian names rather than the more familiar Greek forms. These gods include:

Amun
Anubis
Bast
Bes
Hathor (Egyptian name: Het-heru, Het-hert, or Hwt-hru)
Horus (Hor or Heru)
Isis (Aset, Iset, Ast, or Auset)
Khonsu
Khnum
Ma'at
Nepthys
Osiris (Ausar, Asar, or Wesir)
Ra
Sekhmet
Set
Thoth
How these Gods are viewed depends on the individual belief. Polytheism is the most common form, in both ancient and modern forms of the religion. From this perspective, all the gods are understood as individual beings and are worshiped as individuals.

Many Kemetic Reconstructionists, including members of the large House of Netjer, define their form of polytheism as monolatry, a term coined by Egyptologists. This means that the many individual deities are regarded as parts of an ultimately unknowable self-created Oneness, known in ancient texts as Netjer, "being of divine power," or as Atum, "the complete one/the one who is not."

The ancient Egyptians had a variety of different myths to describe Earth's creation, which are meaningful to modern Kemetics despite their own (usually) scientific view of creation.

Views of Kermetics about the afterlife can vary significantly. Some Kemetic Reconstructionists accept the ancient Egyptian view of the afterlife, while others believe in reincarnation or hold other views. The ancient Egyptians saw the afterlife as a journey through several "tests," the climax of which is the Weighing of the Heart, in which the heart is weighed against an ostrich feather (Feather of Ma'at).

If the heart is too heavy with sin, it is fed to the monster-goddess Ammit and the person is destroyed forever. Those who pass this test become Akhu, or Blessed Ancestors. They reside in Duat, the land of Osiris, and can be communicated with by humans on Earth. If a person flees judgement or gets lost on the way, he or she may become a Muet, or angry dead person, terrorizing living descendants.

Ethics

Kemetic ethics are based in the Egyptian concept of Ma'at, which is truth, justice, order, and "that which is right." In addition, Kemetics look to ancient Egyptian law texts such as the Declaration of Innocence (also called the "Negative Confessions"), which contain a list of 42 sins a deceased person claims not to have done, and the Wisdom Texts, which are pieces of advice written by Ancient Egyptians.

The Declaration of Innocence includes such sins as murder, muddying the rivers of the Nile river, adultery, theft, eavesdropping, and sexual perversion. This last sin is often translated in older texts as committing homosexuality, but Kemetic Reconstructionists consider this a mistranslation and are open to homosexual members. A common theory is that the prohibition refers to child prostitution.

Practices

The most common form of religious ritual in Kermetic Reconstructionism is informal offerings and prayers at a personal shrine. A person may also adapt various community priestly rituals from ancient Egypt to be done by one person.

The Egyptians believed that for a person to survive death indefinitely, he or she must be remembered. The person's name and/or image must be remembered past death, which is the reason mummification was used. Mummification is not practiced by modern Kermetics, since photographs and other records are sufficient to preserve a deceased person's memory. Many Kermetics have an Akhu shrine, dedicated to the "blessed dead," for this purpose.

There are several Kermetic festivals every month, and in some months there is almost a festival for every day. As in ancient Egypt, worshipers can choose which to celebrate, based usually on location, temple affiliation, and personal devotion to a particular deity. But a few major holidays are celebrated by most Kermetics regardless of their temple affiliation (most temples have official calendars) or independent status:

Wep Ronpet, the Kemetic New Year
Feast of Opet
Feast of the Beautiful Valley
Solstice Celebrations and Equinox Celebrations (sacred to Hathor, Eye of Ra)
Feast of the Beautiful Reunion
Full and New Moon Celebrations (sacred to various moon gods depending on the season)
the birthdays and festival days of various gods and goddesses


The Ritual of the Senut or the Daily Rite is a Kemetic Orthodox ritual written in the early 1990s by Rev. Tamara Siuda, based upon a basic daily ritual practiced in the formal temples of antiquity and is partially translated into modern languages from those ancient rituals to that effect. The Senut, from an ancient word meaning "shrine," is given freely to all Kemetic Orthodox and is intended to be performed once daily whenever possible. Other Kemetic temples, such as Per-Ankh, often refer to their forms of this ritual as the "Daily Rite."

There are no formal rites of passage for solitary Kemetics, but the Kemetic Orthodox faith has developed specific rites of passage adapted from the spirit and tradition of ancient rites. Some of these have caused controversy among other Kemetic religionists, while others that have been adopted by them. These include Rootnaming, in which a child born to Kemetic parents is given an additional name indicating the god of his/her month of birth (e.g. Setneb for the month of Set), and the Rite of Parent Divination, a divination ritual performed for adult converts or children at puberty.


http://www.religionfacts.com/neopaganism/paths/kemetic.htm

i don't see where is says Destee and Kemetkind started this in 2006 and you were just bring this back

But, THIS PROJECT on belief systems was started in 2006 by KemetKind and Destee and some others.

So, all I did was bring attention back to it. Cuz I sho nuff got LOTS of attention when I posted in the Christianity forum. LOL!

it's funny how you "LOL" to your own stuff before the ice had a chance to melt

plus this is african traditional weren't you the one complaining that members shouldn't "invade" other members belief forums?