"Revered before Banebdjedet, the 'Chamberlain-Priest,' He Who Separates the Two Gods, Prophet of the Ram, Hatmehyt and the Greater and Lesser Enneads, the Chief W'ab Priest who knows his duty . . . Nes-usert, called Wahibre . . . he says: "O Ram of , Ram of the Great One, Ram of Shu, Ram of Earth! Four faces on a single neck!
To follow up on last week's post—and by way of tangible proof that Her temples still live—I'd like to share with you the Temple of Isis in my backyard. It is named the House of the Lotuses, Per Sushenu, or the Lotus Temple. It was built for an Isis Festival in 2010 and reconstructed in our backyard following the festival since nobody could bear to see it destroyed.
As some of my readers are undoubtedly aware, certain priests, including the Pharaoh, wore panther cloaks as part of their ritual uniform during special ceremonies. The "Opening of the Mouth" ceremony is one such ceremony, and it was arguably the most important of funerary rites. This ceremony allowed the deceased to eat and breathe and speak in the Otherworld. If proper funerary rites were not observed, the deceased's soul was trapped and inert.
(TW: Racism)
So this folkish Heathen (read: racist fuckwit) jumps into a discussion on white supremacy and Heathenry at The Cauldron, and, in addition to having a flag associated with the Nazis as their avatar, starts spewing shit like this:
"Okay say green people live to the left, blue people live to the right. They govern themselves and live by their own set of laws.
There is nothing worse than inaccurate, *LAZY* scholarship. What makes it even more heinous is when it is repackaged and perpetuated in Facebook meme's. Good on Russell Erwin for his blog post.
Easter Is Not Named After Ishtar, And Other Truths I Have To Tell You.
Because I write a lot of serious posts, I thought I'd break with formality for a little while and lighten things up a bit with one of my own "Aggressive Devotions," in a similar style to the ever-entertaining Myths Retold! series.
SO THIS ONE TIME ATUM CAME INTO BEING OUT OF NOWHERE FOR LIKE NO REASON. AND THERE WASN'T ANYTHING OTHER THAN ATUM.
Dating cremated bone fragments of men, women and children found at site puts origin of first circle back 500 years to 3,000BCCenturies before the first massive sarsen stone was hauled into place at Stonehenge, the world's most famous prehistoric monument may have begun life as a giant burial ground, according to a theory disclosed on Saturday.
More than 50,000 cremated bone fragments, of 63 individuals buried at Stonehenge, have been excavated and studied for the first time by a team led by archaeologist Professor Mike Parker Pearson, who has been working at the site and on nearby monuments for decades.
