Two Anniversaries
Two anniversaries
I didn’t expect them to be back to back. My shrine as it would have looked on January 20, 2024, when I was celebrating the anniversary of my encounter with Sekhmet. My shrine as it would have looked on January 23, 2024, when I was celebrating the 18th anniversary of my conversion to Kemeticism. January is a big month for me. I had my long, dark night of the soul, which resulted in Aset, Hathor…
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Doing the Akhu Rite for my mother
Doing the Akhu Rite for my mother
My mother, Eileen Pare. May 29-1943-May 11, 2020
I’ve continued doing Devo’s Making Ma’at rites into this year (and really have no intention of stopping, unless the world becomes miraculously better). Two days ago, I did the Akhu Rite for my mother for the first time.
Now, technically, I suppose I cheated. I think this rite is supposed to be used for those bas who have become akhu – in…
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A Kemetic and an atheist mourned a Catholic...
A Kemetic and an atheist mourned a Catholic…
Sounds like the setup to a bad joke, doesn’t it? “A Kemetic, an atheist and a Catholic walked into a bar…” (Even my saying that is a bad cliché. But I couldn’t resist, sorry.) Robert Pare, Jr. My dad. My dad died on July 27. He was a devout Catholic. The funeral was on August 5. It’s been rough. Losing my mother last year, only 14 months earlier, and now losing my father…yeah, it’s not been…
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The real reason for the season (2024 edition)
It’s a little weird to talk about love being the reason for the season when so many of us are surrounded by not-love. Especially for those of us in the US (but soon perhaps, elsewhere too, regretfully), we have been pummeled and badgered by the results of a brutal election – not brutal physically, not brutal with street riots (I don’t think), but brutal in the promise of a government that…
Remembering Phil Saviano
One of, if not the, hero of the clergy sexual abuse scandal passed away Sunday, November 28. Today we remember Phil Saviano. Phil Saviano in 2002. Copyright Steven Senne. Phil Saviano was just 11 when a priest began abusing him. As an adult, he would go on to collect records about his own case and others, compiling evidence which he would eventually bring to the Boston Globe’s Spotlight…
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Kemetic vs. Atheist turned 5 today! Wow, can't believe it's been 5 years already. Thanks for following, and I promise to post something more substantial soon. Thanks again!
The 8th Principle of Unitarian Universalism
The 8th Principle of Unitarian Universalism
Borrowed with permission from Rev. Paula Cole-Jones. I’ve definitely been getting more into UUism lately. I’m joining groups and reading books, and I even volunteered to be my church’s Collecting Treasurer, a role I take over on July 1st. (Do I know what I’m doing? Heck, no. When has that ever stopped me?) One of the groups concerns promoting the 8th Principle and getting it passed in our…
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Kemetic/Christian Prayers for My Father
Kemetic/Christian Prayers for My Father
Dua AsetGreat Mother, Magical HealerCast your spells of healing on my dad.Let your incantationsRaise his oxygenBring him to consciousnessPurge the infectionAnd bring him back to us. Dua SekhmetGoddess of DoctorsAllow Dad’s surgeons to knowHow to heal him. Dear Jesus,I beg you, stay your hand.Take not your son to you yet.If he knocks on heaven’s door,yell from the other side,“Not yet! Come back…
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A dose of realism for Earth Day
A dose of realism for Earth Day
Hi, guys. I had given some thought to a post talking about Geb, the earth god, and Ma’at on Earth Day – it does happen to be the New Moon today, and I had promised to carry on the “Making Ma’at” tradition into this year, so I was going to do rite, and maybe post about it…and then something happened, something that I’m not ready to write about specifically. So let me just post a poem of mine from…
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The importance of being seen
The importance of being seen
Or, what I learned at church today. I wasn’t sure what to pick today, so I went with this. LOL. I went to UU services today. The service touched on a sampling of the variety of holidays we all celebrate this month: Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa. We had a Solstice story and hymn, a Hanukkah meditation and hymn, an Advent homily, and a Kwanzaa video. It was very nice to get this sampling…
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Matt Dillahunty: "God's a pr!ck"
Matt Dillahunty: “God’s a pr!ck”
Okay, those weren’t his words as I recall them, but let me explain all this. Screenshot of an Atheist Experience video with Matt Dillahunty (probably not the one with the quote). So as I’ve said before on this blog, my husband is an atheist. We both have YouTube running almost constantly on our TV (because we don’t have cable so we don’t have the Weather Channel [wah]). In my husband’s case, he…
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