#personal deity

Hello all and welcome!

My name is Dian, I'm 21 y/o, I am Latino and a pagan.

This is a sideblog for my journey with my deities. I currently worship deities from different pantheons: my own conpantheon, the kushite pantheon (especially the one in worshipped in the meroitic period of Kush), and the etruscan pantheon (aka Rasenna polytheism). Currently like this:

Devoted to:

Danéh & Darukus (Conpantheon)

Worshipping:

Apedemak (Kushite)

Aman (Kushite)

Amesemi (Kushite)

Considering:

Sutekh (Kemetic)

Djehuty (Kemetic-Kushite)

Atari (Kemetic-Kushite)

Sobek (Kemetic)

Inpu (Kemetic-Kushite)

Sekhmet (Kemetic-Kushite)

Dedun (Kushite)

Menerva (Etruscan)

Turan (Etruscan)

Turms (Etruscan)

Uni (Etruscan)

Artumes (Etruscan)

Fufluns (Etruscan)

Atunis (Etruscan)

Iao Sabaoth (Christopagan)

Péh₂usōn (Proto Indo-European)

This might expand and move around in the future of course!

Danéh is my main deity, he is the god of being myself. As such I've seen four aspects of him that I decided to represent through these moodboards. May these be digital offerings for them 🌸

1. Danéh the Disarmer

Wisdom, Mental peace, Health, Philosophy, Work and Ruling are their domains.

2. Danéh the Dark One

Rest, Sleep, Change and Death are their domains.

3. Danéh the Liberator

Freedom in all areas, Independence, Love, Merry, Emotions, Sexuality and Joy are their domains.

4. Danéh the Comrade

Strength, Fighting for what's right, Compassion, Justice, Athleticism and Nature are their domains.

I have drawn each of the aspects before, so here's them all together

CW: Blood

In order from left to right, top to bottom

1. Danéh the Disarmer

2. Danéh the Dark One

3. Danéh the Liberator

4. Danéh the Comrade

REKSEKHET

"Wise Powerful One"

Daughter of Set/Seth and Thoth/Djehuty, this neter is represented by a masculine female with the head of a spotted hyena. Atop her head is the lunar disk with a uraeus, and in her hands are the ankh and was-sceptre. She wears a feminine dress top with a masculine wrap-around skirt bottom, at the front of which the bulge of her enlarged clitoris can be seen.

Reksekhet is a rival to Sekhmet, true to their opposite natures as seen in the rivalry between lions and hyenas. Also similar to these animals: Sekhmet may be more powerful, but Reksekhet is more cunning. Despite their differences, they are both fierce defenders of Ma'at.

This trickster neter embodies the qualities of strength, tenacity, mischief, intellect, ambition, strategy, solidarity, leadership, sovereignty, deviance, and black magic.

Her most sacred animals are spotted hyenas and snakes, which she can also take the form of. Other animals sacred to her are corvids and vultures, whom she uses as informants. She is a protector of beneficial insects including bees, dragonflies, and beetles.

She is strongly associated with rivers and river flooding, and the dark fertile soil left behind by this process. Her colors are green, silver, black, and purple.

Lord of Craft, Lord of Creation. Who brings the spark of inspiration. Be with us.

My personal pantheon started with a dream. I was standing in a field, looking towards a round white building. Huge with open arches, like the Colosseum (pic. 8). Inside everything was white marble. The floors and walls made from memorial plaques and tombstones. The only splashes of colour the flowers and candles that were left by some names. This was the Hall of Remembrance. The Hall was not filled with graves. The bodies were not there. These plaques and statues and stones were here for those left behind. A place to visit and remember. It was also not a place of mourning and sadness. Rather one of peace and a serene joy. People were walking around tending the markers, and people were talking to each other, and to the priests, sharing memories and stories of those lost.

This is where I first met the Ashkeeper.

They are the deity of death, who keeps the soul safe before they are ready to move on to whatever afterlife they choose. The Ashkeeper is also the deity of memories and remembrance. The things left behind in our world so people who have passed will not be forgotten.

They live in graveyards and cemeteries (pic. 1, 4, and 9), but also in the box of mementos and albums filled with photos (pic. 7). They live in the spontaneous shrines of flowers and candles which we come together to make after and accident or catastrophe (pic. 3). The in memoriam murals to make sure we never forget (pic. 5). They are with us as we celebrate our various days of Remembrance, to keep the memories alive.

Supreme Danéh, infinite God,

who creates and destroys universes by thinking,

Listen to my petitions, O Good one,

my God Danéh, you I worship