{"id":255,"date":"2011-07-30T10:23:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T15:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/?p=255"},"modified":"2012-05-24T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T15:24:50","slug":"happy-birthday-heru-wer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/creativity\/happy-birthday-heru-wer\/","title":{"rendered":"happy birthday, Heru-wer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sat in the backyard next to a candle lit for Heru-wer, and this got stuck in my head as a looping singsong chant.<\/p>\n

Thanks for the tune, Heru-wer. Good timing. Henu to You.<\/p>\n

(Y’all can click here to listen<\/a>. Mediocre recording quality, but it gets the point across.)<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Heru-wer has wakened
\nand so comes up the sun;
\nand now that Heru-wer has risen,
\ninward flows the dawn;
\nand now that Heru-wer has spoken,
\nisfet is overcome.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

For those who have no clue who the hell Heru-wer is and what isfet is and why I’m wishing random entities happy birthday:<\/p>\n

I’ve dug myself a homey nest in the fertile ground of Kemeticism, specifically with Kemetic Orthodoxy<\/a> (the aforementioned awesome spiritual group). In other words, I am studying and beginning to practice a soft-reconstructionist version of ancient Egyptian religion and spirituality. I will be writing about this a lot<\/i> in days to come.<\/p>\n

Right now, we are within the five days considered to be outside the year – the intercalary or epagomenal days. (Started Friday, ends Tuesday. Wednesday, August 3rd, is New Year Day.) Each of the five days is a major god’s birthday. So I’m lighting a candle for each one and, apparently, writing a little sommat for Them. (Or, in this case, singing it.)<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s god, Wesir (Osiris), is lord of the underworld. Today’s god, Heru-wer (Horus the Elder) is a solar warrior. Those two sentences are heinous over-simplifications, but they’ll work for those who are totally unfamiliar with Egyptian mythology. :)<\/p>\n

Oh, and isfet = bad shit. Going against the rightness\/order of the universe – more like “chaos” than “evil.” And henu is a form of deep respect accompanied by physical gestures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sat in the backyard next to a candle lit for Heru-wer, and this got stuck in my head as a looping singsong chant. Thanks for the tune, Heru-wer. Good timing. Henu to You. (Y’all can click here to listen. Mediocre recording quality, but it gets the point across.) … Heru-wer has wakened and so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,6],"tags":[56,59,12,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}