smarmykemeticpagan:

part of why the whole trend of wanting to honor a/pep confuses me as well as makes me uncomfortable is that it’s really not comparable to, say, a doomsday entity that is supposed to start an apocalypse that leads to a new world (i.e. Fenrir Wolf) or an entity that has strong associations with destruction and evil (i.e. Set); the apocalypse as the ancient Egyptians percieved it wasn’t just an end to a way of life, or the extinction of the human race, or even just the destruction of our planet. it was more of a “return to primordial goop” that we as modern people might compare to the state of the universe before the Big Bang

the best way i can think of to describe it would be that while destruction as we think of it is moving atoms that were previously making up objects until they are no longer in the same pattern -turning a building into rubble- the kind of complete nullification a/pep represents is closer to said atoms ceasing to exist altogether 

(also i kinda think people are only doing it because all they know about A/pep and its place in our mythologies is a couple posts on tumblr where some fucko is going on about “forbidden knowledge” and honoring death and decay without knowing they’re talking out of their ass) (or they’re Wiccan/eclectic and taking entities completely out of their cultural context which is annoying and dangerous for them moreso than it is a moral issue in this situation….but still annoying)