{"id":957,"date":"2013-05-06T21:33:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T02:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/?p=957"},"modified":"2013-05-06T21:33:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T02:33:04","slug":"a-prayer-for-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/prayers\/a-prayer-for-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"a prayer for execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Kemetic Orthodox calendar, today, II Shomu 7, is the Day of the Executioners of Sekhmet. This holiday could be interpreted in a few ways, including a day to pacify Sekhmet and Her executioners (or plagues or vengeful netjeri (spirits)) or a day to honor Sekhmet&#8217;s physicians in their roles of executioners of illnesses and hurts. This prayer is to and for both.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Hail to you, Executioners!<br \/>\nBlades in hand, you sweep the earth<br \/>\nand cut into, cut apart, cut away.<\/p>\n<p>Turn your faces towards isfet<br \/>\nand there direct your precision<br \/>\nand your sharpening hunger.<\/p>\n<p>Devour that which harms,<br \/>\nexcise that which uncreates,<br \/>\nand establish ma&#8217;at with your hands.<\/p>\n<p>Sekhmet favors me,<br \/>\nso spare my healthy flesh<br \/>\nand attack only the shadows of sickness.<\/p>\n<p>I praise your names<br \/>\nas you strike to bring balance<br \/>\nand unbloody Ma&#8217;at&#8217;s white feather.<\/p>\n<p>Your knives separate hale from fel<br \/>\nand etch a line between strength and weakness<br \/>\nso we know where we must work hardest.<\/p>\n<p>Today is your day, Executioners,<br \/>\nand I take up the knife with you<br \/>\nto expel isfet and preserve ma&#8217;at.<\/p>\n<p><i>Dua Sekhmet, Who Wards Off All Evils!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Kemetic Orthodox calendar, today, II Shomu 7, is the Day of the Executioners of Sekhmet. This holiday could be interpreted in a few ways, including a day to pacify Sekhmet and Her executioners (or plagues or vengeful netjeri (spirits)) or a day to honor Sekhmet&#8217;s physicians in their roles of executioners of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}