I think Egyptian recon has a much more difficult time of it than a lot of other portions of modern paganism -- partly because it's comparatively young (on the fifteen-twenty years scale, rather than Asatru's forty-fifty years and Wicca's seventy or so), and also because, unlike more tribal reconstructions, the basic presumptions of the structure have a fair amount of heirarchy bound up in them. So the question of "Who's in charge and how do we sort that out" is a lot more fraught in Kemetic circles than it is in a system where there's a built-in set of "So that's how you do it in your clan/city/tribe . . ."
The entire question of authority and heirarchy is a really touchy one, the need for the helm. I remember iced_spice commenting a while back that she expected Kemetic stuff to have broken into a bunch of more or less independent groups at some point in the future, and I wouldn't be surprised if it did, but I'm not so sure how well that would fall under 'recon', because it's breaking the idea of central heirarchy and thus the unity of the Two Lands.
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I think Egyptian recon has a much more difficult time of it than a lot of other portions of modern paganism -- partly because it's comparatively young (on the fifteen-twenty years scale, rather than Asatru's forty-fifty years and Wicca's seventy or so), and also because, unlike more tribal reconstructions, the basic presumptions of the structure have a fair amount of heirarchy bound up in them. So the question of "Who's in charge and how do we sort that out" is a lot more fraught in Kemetic circles than it is in a system where there's a built-in set of "So that's how you do it in your clan/city/tribe . . ."
The entire question of authority and heirarchy is a really touchy one, the need for the helm. I remember
It's a real question, as the man said.