I posted this to the KOL board.

[kiya]

Wanted to put it here, too, so fyrekat and others could see it.

fyrekat has been writing about the Netjerw she knows, and I've been considering on and off doing something of the same. Hence . . .


The Set I know is . . . frustrated a great deal. His skills, His strengths, they don't always apply to the situations He finds himself in, and He feels that He needs to do something. Like me a lot of the time, He finds himself in situations where He wants all the complications to go away, wishing there was some way to get to the core of the problem where there's something He can just hit until it gives up and thus stops causing the problem. (suzimoses has been thinking for years now about making me a punching bag or pillow or something labelled "A problem you can hit".)

A world that was perfectly suited to the Set I know would be a world in which all issues, or at least all major issues, could be resolved with single combat. He expressed to me once, though, that the problem is that sometimes issues come in armies, and if you try to engage in single combat with the one, the others come around behind you and stab you in the back. There are problems that are resolvable with that single combat, though, and Ra gave Set that role -- and Set is there at the fighting arm of everyone in their personal wrestling match with their internal isfet, that battle that winds up, in the uttermost end, one against one.

He is not, I think, articulate about expressing gentler things; when I found Him in my life, his declaration of happiness and welcome was a somewhat aggressive, "When are you going to dye your hair again?" I wonder, sometimes, if that is the root of the difficulties He and Nebt-Het have; She seems more subtle, more quiet, and one who puts value in well-spoken words to me, and I think that the Set I know would find His difficulty meeting that need for a particular mode of interaction to be a perpetual source of pain (and thus outrage). This is just my speculation, though; we don't talk about His personal life.


This I didn't put on the board:

Stormy's a Set kid. I still haven't thought about who else of my aspects has distinct patrons, but Stormy's definitely a Set kid. I wouldn't be surprised if some of her traits were related to His: She feels very deeply, in the areas that matter to her, and most of her emotions inspire her to very forceful action. She has essentially no verbal skills; her communication is full of body-language and emotional bubble. She doesn't have much of a sense of proportion; she's very all-or-nothing. Limitations enrage her, and she's compulsive about respecting boundaries, and I'm not sure I can articulate the difference. When a limitation goes down that's been bothering her, she tends to react all out of proportion to the event that brought it down or the irritation of the limitation; it's a great gusher of response.

(Which strikes me as related to the interactions between Set and Asar.)

Comments

[fyrekat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this where I could see it! I love sharing in others' experiences of the ntjrw- I find it not just extremely interesting but also helpful in my own dealings with and understandings of the ntjrw.

Stkh is one of those Whom I have admired for a long time, but I have had only a few short visitations in Rite. What I have heard from Him gave me the impression of a seasoned general- somewhat arrogant (but then, that's part of His charm) but always straight to the point and with every intention of following through on whatever He sees is the best course of action. In my experience, dealings with Him seem to be a bit touchy. Perhaps that is because whenever I'm around someone I begin to pick up their way of speaking or moving, and that has led to some interesting dialogue between the two of us. But I have found His messages to be startling in their truth, as His arguments often appear disorganized or unrelated yet they come to a point very suddenly- rather than allowing the truth of the words to seep in gradually as most of the other ntjrw have done.

[kiya]

Set was the first netjer who identified Himself to me directly. It's an . . . interesting sort of interaction, really; I've got some past-stuff that really messes with some of my ability to handle some things associated with Him, and I think He wanted me to know that I was ready to work to get into better touch. (That, or tell me that He was sick and tired of just waiting around for me to get a clue. Actually, now I think of it that seems more likely.)

That's . . . arr. It's a sort of tactical approach, the unrelated points that come to a central strike, isn't it. I can't get the words out right; this is something that wants to come out in body language. Meaning-conveyance via gesture doesn't work so well in text. . . .

(And now I want to write something about aspects and Parentage. I'll have to add that to the list of things rattling around in my head that I want to make sense of by writing them down.)

[fyrekat.livejournal.com]

Yes, tactics of a sort. I was having trouble explaining that concept too, but you understand me.^_^ It's difficult to refute an argument when you don't even know it's coming.

I'd love to see a post on aspects and Parentage- sounds like a really interesting, really useful subject on which to share your views. These posts and essays are a lot of fun to write, in a way, but they do take up so much time! I've got so many beginnings of posts started and saved and screened so that no one else can see them until I finish- I don't know when I'll have them all ready to share. Especially since I recently got a big load of books and all I really want to do is lay around and take notes on them.

[kiya]

That'll probably get written soonish, as it's got stuff that I've been chewing on for a while -- the intersection of my multiplicity and my spirituality is sort of interesting these days. (I'm suspecting that one of the things that makes sense to me about Kemeticism is that the syncretisms of the various ntjrw are perfectly straightforward to me as a median personality.)

At the moment I'm flailing about trying to articulate other theological things. :}

So many books! So little time! And I really should be doing work research, and instead I'm prattling on about Wicca. ;)