Odd synchronisities

[kiya]

Best footnote ever:

⁶Victor Anderson gave me these names, with the exception of Sacred Dove, which he called Paraclete. Some students have trouble calling it Dove, thinking that to be Christian imagery, but Victor called Triple Soul alignment "feeding the Dove". One may also call it the Sacred Falcon, using Egyptian imagery if that is more comfortable for you, or God Soul.

(T. Thorn Coyle, Evolutionary Witchcraft, page 46.)

Isn't it funny to come to a revelation and start hiking in that direction, only to find that someone else, someone coming from a completely different direction, has seemingly casually cut a blaze into the tree that defined the sight-line?

Hello, Heru.

. . . the dove descending breaks the air with flame of incandescent terror . . .


(No Thanksgiving content. My bread came out well. Had much food and spent time with people. Very crashy. Consumed by either fire or fire.)

Comments

[shaddragon.livejournal.com]

> A just casual, accidental reference to a sacred falcon in exactly the
> place where I was looking for Heru!"

Ahah. Okay, I follow you now. And that is rather convenient, isn't it? Love them coincidences.

And that sort of idea is exactly why I'd never be able to put up with a 'formal' style Kemeticism -- I'm not at all surprised you aren't either, of course. ;) The very notion of finding the connection to 'other' outside oneself makes me bristle and wander off in another direction.

Any notes on how the Egyptians felt about female pharoahs? And what it is that let the females become pharoahs in the first place? (Not just 'how they qualified' but 'how the culture handled the idea,' I mean.)

[kiya]

It was one of those, ". . . okay, it's kinda cool to see someone just casually point out the goal I was aiming for all this time as an incidental waypoint. . ." moments.

I don't actually recall much about the female pharaohs other than that they existed; they tended to take the throne when there were no male heirs (and IIRC were often the ends of dynasties). I believe it was Hatshepsut who was the regent when her very young son was the nominal pharaoh and more or less usurped his position over time. (My history is very thin; one of the reasons I didn't fall into Kemeticism earlier is, I suspect, my world-spanning lack of interest in things like pharaonic history.)

They were presented in the full pharaonic regalia in all of the representations (including the strap-on beard). If comparisons to other African civilisations which have had female kings within recent times hold true, she probably kept a harem of pretty (possibly cross-dressing) boys.

It reminds me a bit of papersky's concept for a novel in which sex change is a trivial thing, and there is women's work and men's work very clearly. . . (I wonder if she's writing that. I think it was an Austen riff.)