So you’re a kemetic and you’re looking for another way to provide offerings or to venerate your Netjeru. If you’re like me, you may have been fascinated with Ancient Egypt (AE), their purity standards, their love of jewelry, wigs, fashion, make-up and cosmetics. Perhaps you have offered these things to Netjer on your altars. Perhaps you have placed a bottle of facial creme, a perfume bottle, your favorite lipstick, or even nail polish on your altar. But has it dawned on you that “Hey, couldn’t wearing this be an act of devotion?” I would like to loudly proclaim “YES!”
Taking Care of Your Body As A Devotional Act
There are a variety of things you can do to take care of yourself and your body as a devotional act to your Netjeru. In AE, our bodies (or khat also spelled X .t ), was considered extremely important. It was the vessel that holds our ka, ba and akh. Without our physical bodies our souls would take a passage to the duat, hopefully to become akhu and join the stars of Nut. So making sure the body was well taken care of was prominent in AE.
So how can this be done? How can we use this as a devotional act? One of the first and obvious things one can do is practice self-care. Here is a tumblr tag search for “self-care masterposts”. There are plenty of things to do and read through from making yourself a warm cup of tea to going out and jogging to let out stress and frustration.
However, that is not the main focus of this post since I feel like self-care is widely posted about already. Instead, this post will be more about the physical care of one’s body and how it relates to AE practices. This means we’re primarily going to be talking about cosmetics! Yay!
Devotional Actions in Kemeticism – Taking Care of Your Body
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