Em Hotep, Y’all.

Hail to you, Bastet, Lady of Life.

Please join me in this Sacred Space of Yours that I have created to honour you.

Lady Of Heaven, Eye Of Ra, She With Great Tremor, I invoke You to aid the Children of the Netjeru and Man in this common fight with this new Plague.

Although the Plague is devastating Our World, i/s/fet corrupts systems that prevents people from getting the help they need. Systems that demand money to give help from people who don't have the money. Systems that are focused on money.

I call upon You now to ask you to lend The Children of the Netjeru and I your strength to aid in the Battle against this Plague, and in turn, against i/s/fet it/self.

O' Ra, I call your name!

My arms are raised as you raise the sun atop your head!

Dua, Ra, father of the skies!

But there are many different ways to explore and practice Kemetic paganism! 

I’ve been thinking more about the whole gods harming their worshipers discourse on TikTok and I think it goes a lot deeper than just spreading fear and misinformation in our community. 

By so casually going onto social media and posting about these experiences as if that’s just what happens as a worshiper, the message they are sending is “The gods can and will ABUSE you and you deserve it” 

They’re basically normalizing abusive relationships with deities. And I say this as someone who was in an abusive relationship. 

Swap out any of the gods in these stories for a mortal and we all would be calling the cops. So why is it okay for a deity to cause such harm?? The answer is that it isn’t. 

These people shouldn’t be promoting these kinds of relationships. It’s harmful, especially to the younger crowd who already struggles greatly with their own self worth. 

And truthfully by normalizing abusive relationships with the gods, they’re also normalizing abusive relationship in general. If you can accept a god causing you harm, you’ll likely accept it from anyone. Because the feeling of “I deserve this” and “This is my fault” will transfer over into other relationships. 

All of this contributed toward my interest in books by Kaldera and Krasskova. I never liked her vibe much, but I felt I was learning a lot about ritual practice.

A few years later, I still understand some of my former attitude and my desire to be tested by Those with whom I worked and whom I loved, especially Shiva. They are not always kind, and They do test us. I want Them to be complete, to have a gentle as well as a harsh side.

But I now also see how toxic that discourse is. In Krasskova’s case, her perception of Odhinn is deeply coloured by Abrahamic practices, all fire and brimstone, and a heavy dose of self-righteousness and moralization. I read more than a dozen of her books, and they did me harm although I was an adult in my thirties, with a Ph.D. and the ability to read practically all primary sources relevant to her vision of the world.

It is all the more dangerous to read some of those materials and accept them at face value if a person is younger and more vulnerable. Abuse enablers are disgusting.

~ Kemeticism ~ Freyja/Norse gods ~ Slavic paganism ~ Celtic polytheism ~ Spirit work ~ Necromancy ~ Witchcraft ~ Wicca ~ Crystals, spells, curses, herbs…etc. ~ Paganism in general

Daughter of Ra

Divine Mother 

Eye of Ra

Great 

Lady of All the Gods

Lady of Heaven

Lady of the House of Life

Lady of the Netherworld 

Lady of the Sacred Land (Necropolis) 

Lady of the Two Lands

a desire to learn

an oddly strong love for the moon, the sun, or both

an open mind

time

a little humility

salt, probably

THINGS YOU DON’T NEED TO BE A WITCH

a vagina

nor a uterus

fancy tools

money

formal training

a fancy witch name

a neurotypical brain

Anyone who identifies as a Kemetic Pagan or Kemetic witch and posts/reblogs stuff related to it PLEASE PLEASE like or reblog this post.

O, Selket, she who gives breath to the tight throat,

The maker of poisons and their antidote,

Physician of the gods and the sorrowful mourner,