"The dove descending" is T. S. Eliot. ;) "Little Gidding".
Heru = Horus.
One of the major issues with Kemetic reconstruction is the question of what to do about the concept of Nisut (Egyptian word for 'Pharaoh' -- 'Pharaoh' derives from per a'a, and is roughly equivalent to a reference to 'The White House' as opposed to being the actual title). In ancient times, the Pharaoh was the linchpin between the seen and unseen worlds, the one who kept the gods in communication with the people, and the people in communication with the gods.
He[*] was able to do this because he had the pharaonic ka (if I've got my soul parts straight here); this kept him with one foot in the seen and one in the unseen -- because the pharaonic ka is an incarnation of Horus.
This is a question that all modern Kemetics have to deal with, the whole "Okay, what is the linchpin between the seen and unseen and, for that matter, where the fuck has it been for the intervening two thousand years?" The Kemetic Orthodox have a Nisut, Rev. Tamara Siuda; the Kemetic Traditionalists have a senior priest and associated priesthood (as, since the Pharaoh couldn't be everywhere in Egypt to perform all the rites everywhere, it was generally held that a properly trained priest could act in his stead as a vessel of the ka); I believe Akhet has a council of priests (similar logic); I don't know what the Veridical Kemetics do.
For various reasons, this is one of the things that I felt a need to work through myself; I spent some time dithering about it, and then I stumbled across Feri and the concept of the God Soul. And I leaned back and said, "I wonder if that works," and started to study.
I hadn't come across the avian imagery before -- my primary knowledge of the souls is from Etheric Anatomy. So I read that bit about the Dove, and was sort of, "Okay, interesting, this is a new image," and then I read the footnote, and said, more or less, "Fuck! A just casual, accidental reference to a sacred falcon in exactly the place where I was looking for Heru!"
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Date: 2004-11-26 12:14 am (UTC)Heru = Horus.
One of the major issues with Kemetic reconstruction is the question of what to do about the concept of Nisut (Egyptian word for 'Pharaoh' -- 'Pharaoh' derives from per a'a, and is roughly equivalent to a reference to 'The White House' as opposed to being the actual title). In ancient times, the Pharaoh was the linchpin between the seen and unseen worlds, the one who kept the gods in communication with the people, and the people in communication with the gods.
He[*] was able to do this because he had the pharaonic ka (if I've got my soul parts straight here); this kept him with one foot in the seen and one in the unseen -- because the pharaonic ka is an incarnation of Horus.
This is a question that all modern Kemetics have to deal with, the whole "Okay, what is the linchpin between the seen and unseen and, for that matter, where the fuck has it been for the intervening two thousand years?" The Kemetic Orthodox have a Nisut, Rev. Tamara Siuda; the Kemetic Traditionalists have a senior priest and associated priesthood (as, since the Pharaoh couldn't be everywhere in Egypt to perform all the rites everywhere, it was generally held that a properly trained priest could act in his stead as a vessel of the ka); I believe Akhet has a council of priests (similar logic); I don't know what the Veridical Kemetics do.
For various reasons, this is one of the things that I felt a need to work through myself; I spent some time dithering about it, and then I stumbled across Feri and the concept of the God Soul. And I leaned back and said, "I wonder if that works," and started to study.
I hadn't come across the avian imagery before -- my primary knowledge of the souls is from Etheric Anatomy. So I read that bit about the Dove, and was sort of, "Okay, interesting, this is a new image," and then I read the footnote, and said, more or less, "Fuck! A just casual, accidental reference to a sacred falcon in exactly the place where I was looking for Heru!"