#antlering

@antlering said: 

good luck with the beginner's class and I'm always free if you have questions! I just started the ADF dedicant program so I feel this post a lot haha!

Thank you very much for your kind words and offer of support. I’m not entirely sure what I’m getting myself into here, but that’s alright, as it’s by no means the first time I’ve found myself in this kind of situation, and it almost always turns out for the best. I know already that if I make it past the beginner’s class, I won’t ever be going past the first kind of member within Kemetic Orthodoxy as I already hold an oath with a deity, Brighid specifically, where I put her first before any other deity, and that oath is life long. The main reason I joined Kemetic Orthodoxy, outside of community, is for the structure. I’m one of those people who need to know where the box is and it’s entire layout before I even think of coloring or drawing outside the lines, if that makes any sense.

I admit to having a couple of misgivings or feelings of not entirely sure if this will work out. For example, I’m very much a hard Polytheist kind of Pagan, and I just flat out don’t believe in the kind of Soft Polytheism or it’s flavor being discussed. I’m not sure if that will hinder my progress through the beginner’s class or not, but I guess we’ll see how it goes. 

I wish you the best of luck working through the Dedicant’s Path too! I need to finish my own work with it actually. It’s a right pain in the ass for sure, but it’s manitory to get to the rest of the training programs within ADF. My main issue at the moment is finding a replacement book for the modern Paganism essay, as I recently found out that the author of the book I wanted to read and review is most likely a TERF, which is extremely disapointing and disgusting if true.  

antlering

this is such a mood...hate getting stuck doing nothing for like 5 hours because brain cannot handle Being Interrupted

Omg, thank you so much! I’m so glad to hear that!

The commissioner intended it as a Wep Ronpet gift for one of His children, so I really wanted to try and connect with Him to make it as good as I could for them. 💛 So hearing this really uplifts me.

KEMETIC DEITY EXCHANGE 2018

Vector Art of Tutu (Twtw) for @antlering

Tutu is a protective deity in the form of a sphinx. He’s a son of Neith, and also associated with Sekhmet. It’s said that Tutu is often shown with supplementary heads of ibis, hawk, baboon, crocodile or a ram’s (as shown in the picture). His body was a lion’s and sometimes depicted wielding knives on its paws.

There’s also a version of the myth about Tutu being the personification of Aset’s lock of hair which she cut while mourning for Osiris.

i guess i can't speak for everybody, but seeing any artwork of the gods made by a polytheist is really special. post it all! the existence of the art is more important than the completeness

oh i'd love to read your breakdown! i appreciate Butler's research but fucking gods is he a dense fucking writer

you can say that again. I’ve been shouting every so often at my friend over how dense the writing is and over how lofty the words he uses are. like on the one hand I appreciate the density and flowery prose. On the other hand... did you really need to use the term “hermeneutic” where a simple “interpretation” would have sufficed?

I gotta suffer through making the *occasional* serious post, I suppose!

I was resistant at first because the big-name off-tumblr Orphic group is…uncomfortably cosy with some questionable people, if nothing else, and I wasn’t interested in using their resources.