Assorted miscellany, notes, and mutterings

[kiya]

Ahoy folks-I-did-Samhain with. For your general amusement, according to the calendar for Peret III from the temple I'm affiliated with, 2 February is Nit's Festival of Lights. Presuming the year hasn't shifted any. I do believe that I am amused. (I believe Nit/Neith was one of the Names I gave you, keshwyn, yes? I add to previous list that she was also consulted on difficult issues occasionally, because her age brought her wisdom.) (Other calendars give the same festival as 19 January; New Year depends partly on latitude and that sounds about right for the date for Egypt.) (I was looking up what festivals were upcoming, since you asked.)

Got stuff to make Soup. Spent some ponderings on whether or not it's possible to substitute cornstarch or something for the flour for the people I know who are gluten-intolerant or allergic to wheat. Have a mighty bounty of mushrooms. Pretty sure I remembered everything I need this time.

Must get work done. To get work done I probably need to fix my blood sugar. A chunk of Vermont cheddar, a loaf of bread, and thou, with me singing in the wilderness.

Comments

[redbird]

If it's specifically a wheat allergy, you might try fine-ground cornmeal.

[kiya]

More or less what I was pondering at.

Because in the event that I am called upon to make Soup for a gathering that happens, for some reason, to contain any of these people, it would be good to have the planning done ahead of time.

Goodness, I'm surrounded by napping cats. I wonder when that happened.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Re cornstarch -- check the label to find out what it's made from. Some are made frome wheat and some are made from maize. The maize ones are fine for coeliacs and the wheat-intolerant.

(And bless you for thinking of us.)

[kiya]

Hm. The cornstarch I have doesn't distinguish explicitly (it just claims to be made of 'corn starch'), but USonian usage corn = maize, so I don't know that I'd expect it to. It has a picture of a vaguely humanoid ear of maize on, though.


It's not especially likely to be anything other than academic, given the intervening planet and all, but it's good to know that maize-starch could work. Thankye.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

The product you have is probably OK; if you really want to be sure, look for the magic words "gluten free" on the label the next time you're wanting to buy some.

[keshwyn]

For your general amusement, according to the calendar for Peret III from the temple I'm affiliated with, 2 February is Nit's Festival of Lights. Presuming the year hasn't shifted any. I do believe that I am amused.

Given that Imbolc is sometimes Candlemass as well, yes, that's very amusing. Especially since...

(I believe Nit/Neith was one of the Names I gave you, keshwyn, yes? I add to previous list that she was also consulted on difficult issues occasionally, because her age brought her wisdom.)

...it was indeed, the first Name you pointed me at. And subsequent research has generally led me to conclude that yes, this is a face of the Lady that I can get along with just fine. *grin* Shall we celebrate Her Festival of Lights in February right before your birthday? It will give me an excuse to buy more books on Egyptian mythology.

Not to mention being a time in which I will desperately be needing Light if past history is anything to go on.

[kiya]

I shall see if I can get a timeshare on the gnats to research that festival in particular; the fact that it coincided with Candlemas and other light-returning festivities tickled me. Especially given the calendar and seasonal differences involved and all.

[thastygliax.livejournal.com]

according to the calendar for Peret III from the temple I'm affiliated with

Do you have a handy link for Egyptian festival calendar(s)? That's something I need more data on for that game I've babbled at you about from time to time. (I have one buried in my box of random notes somewhere, but would be nice to see if there is any sort of agreement among sources.)

I believe Nit/Neith was one of the Names I gave you, keshwyn, yes?

I've been slowly reading through Robert Graves' Greek Myths. I take his "Unified Myth Theory" obsession with several grains (shakers?) of salt, but his work isn't the only place that I've seen Athena and Neith equated. Plato seemed to take it for granted when introducing Critias/Solon's tale of Atlantis, for example.

[kiya]

Yeah, the Neith-Athena equivalence was one that I ran across a couple of times while I was trying to dig up information about Her festival of lights.

This is the Per Ankh calendar. The other modern temples probably have calendars of their own, but I don't know where to find them.