so my understanding is that they had the concept of "pellets" or "grains" of natron, and that you'd plop a certain number of these grains/pellets into the water and that's how you'd figure out how much. when i've made my own natron, it did naturally break apart into little bits that might constitute as grains/pellets, and you could potentially measure yours that way, too.

so when i'd do it, i would probably stick one little grains worth in (maybe about the equivalent of a grain of rice or so) and call it a day.

however, i hate the taste of natron, and i'm not a huge fan of shoving it in my mouth. as you mentioned, sodium bicarbonate isn't good for your teeth, and i've spent way too much time trying to fix my teeth to subject them to stuff that's not good for them.

so it'd be my suggestion to just rinse your mouth out with water and call it a day. if you want something that's beneficial for the mouth, you could eat a spry/xylitol mint or something, to cleanse the mouth both figuratively and literally (xylitol sugar breaks down a lot of the bacteria that cause cavities in the mouth).

2% is trying to figure out if some weird seemingly non-canonical thing is in fact canonical but is so fucking old it predates fucking writing

1% is figuring how something that possibly predates the written word can fit into a modern paradigm

1% giving the fuck up

I would say that the most salient points to keep in mind are:

There are more holidays in our calendar than a single person could possibly be expected to do. You don't have to do all of them or even most of them if you don't want to.

Egypt technically had 3 calendars. The solar calendar (where holidays align exactly with natural events), solar civil calendar (where standard days are picked to celebrate the holiday even if the natural event happens at a different time), and the lunar calendar. Both of the solar calendars align with Wep Ronpet, whose event date shifts yearly.

Many Kemetics use a civil calendar because it's much easier to not fuss with when Sirius rises in the summer.

It's fine to make new holidays. You don't have to use historical holidays if you don't want to.

We have little-to-no information on a ton of our holidays. Be prepared to connect dots and make stabs in the dark on how to celebrate.

There is no right or wrong way to celebrate.

We're all just making shit up here.

Welcome to the struggle.

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The Shining One: Heru-Wer.

Why in the fuck can I not find this epithet anywhere? And why in the fuck does it sound so gods-damned familiar?!

I swear I came across this epithet at some point and thought I had even written about it but evidently the fuck not.

and i just

if you worshiping a/pep you’re unlearned at best. you’re antagonistic to everything on this planet at worst.

for the 849357348957348967346th time. we don’t worship the poop, and if you do, you ain’t kemetic. full stop, end sentence. lmao why we gotta have this every year.