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Praise Set, Bringer of Storms, He Who Enjoys Riot, may He always be present in my life.

Blessed Set, He of the Red Hair, King of the Desert, Son of Geb and Father of Anup, may He guide me and protect me, teaching how to See for others who cannot.

I praise thee, O mighty and ever-lasting God, and thank You for my life. I have equipped myself like You, great in strength, Defeater of Darkness.

Praise Set, I thank You, God in my Heart, who taught me how to preserve the force of mind.

He has taught me perseverance and strength, and alongside Him nothing shall prevail that works against me, nothing ceases that I put in motion.

Praise our Lord of the Heavens and Earth! Praise the Lord of the Oasis, the beautiful child of Ra! Praise Set, He who disregards the law!

Mighty Set, Lord of Storms,
Who slays Apep,
No evil may stand before You.

Much has been written about Kemetic belief in the resurrection of the physical body as evidenced by the practice of mummification and even the passage about not letting the body decay which is cited above. But although there are passages about the body not decaying and about one knitting oneself back together bone by bone and member by member, there are also passages which stress that it is the spirit that is immortal and that “the soul belongs to heaven; the body belongs to earth” (Budge 1960, 68). Budge (1960, 69) is correct in asserting that “the preservation of the corruptible body … was in some way connected with life in the world to come, and its existence was necessary to insure eternal life, otherwise the prayers recited to this end would have been futile and the time- honored custom of mummifying the dead would have no meaning.” But it is still not clear why the preservation of the body was necessary. A plausible explanation is that the ancient Egyptians believed that the various physical and spiritual parts of the human personality-ka (vital energy), ba (soul), khet (body), akh (transformed spirit), ren (name), ib (heart/mind), and shuit (shadow) “were bound together inseparably and the welfare of any single one of them concerned the welfare of all” (Budge 1960, 81). Therefore, what one has here is a complex set of beliefs which unite the physical and spiritual in a holistic conception of reciprocal effect (Finnestad 1986).

Ma’at, the Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt

The Egyptian god of chaos who embodied the principle of hostility – he was the adversary of the god Osiris – or of outright evil, even if his role was not altogether negative: Only he could withstand the stare of the Serpent of Chaos and only he had the weapons to which its flint scales were vulnerable. He was associated with foreign lands where Maat, the rule of justice, was unknown.

   During the second dynasty Seth became closely connected with Ash, the original god of the Upper Egyptian city of Ombos, whom he substituted as that city’s chief deity. [4] For a while during the third millennium BCE, Seth replaced Horus as the guardian of the pharaohs.
   As the story of Seth’s murder of Osiris and his eighty year war against Horus gained currency, Horus was restored to his preeminence [2]. During that war Seth tore out the left eye of his adversary but lost a foreleg and his testicles.

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/religion/osiris.htm

Pay good heed to the weighing in the Balance of the heart of the Osiris, the singing-woman of Amen, Anhai, whose word is truth, and place thou her heart in the seat of truth in the presence of the Great God.

Paprus of Ani

Anubis – Jackal Headed God of Egypt

Anubis is the God of Cemeteries and Embalming. Anubis is normally seem as a jackal or dog or in jackal-headed human form. He is normally depicted in black, and the colour is symbolic, it represents the colour of the body after the mummification process. Black is also associated with the fertile Nile silt deposited on the land, called the ‘Black Land’ and hence rebirth in the afterlife.

The nature of Anubis is probably best revealed through the epithets used:

Khenty-Imentiu – meaning ‘Foremost of the Westerners’ (the west was were the entrance to the underworld was located) indicating his leadership of those buried in the cemeteries.

Khenty-sek-Netjer – ‘presiding over God’s pavillion’ The gods pavillion was the place were the ritual of embalming took place and the burial chamber. It emphasis is role as of guardian, protecter and guide for the dead.

Tepy-Dju-ef – ‘Anubis who is upon is mountain’ again another image of Anubis as a protector of cemeteries.

Neb-ta-Djeser – ‘Lord of the sacred land’ which again refers to the desert where the necropoleis and cemeteries lay. He is sometime also called ‘Jackal ruler of the bows’ which is another aspect of Anubis as a necropolis guardian.

Imy-ut – ‘he who is in the place of embalming’ and stresses the role in the mummification process. Anubis was the god the provided the iron for the magical adze used in the ‘Opening of the Mouth’ ritual.

He can also be found in the Book of the Dead, in the weighing of the heart ceremony and is described as ‘he who counts the hearts’. In the Pyramind Texts he is sometimes called ‘claimer of hearts’ who purpose is to the free the King from restrictions on earth in order for him to join the gods in the sky. Anubis guides the deceased who have passed the tests and whose hearts have been vindicated as honest towards the throne of Osiris.

Invocation/Prayer to Anubis

The earth speaks: The doors of the earth-god are opened for you, the doors of Geb are thrown open for you, you come forth at the voice of Anubis, he makes a spirit of you like Thoth, you judge the gods, you set the bounds to the celestial expanses between the Two Wands in this your spiritualised state which Anubis commanded.

[From The Pyramid Texts: 796-798]

http://www.per-ankh.co.uk/monuments_of_egypt/gods_and_goddesses/anubis_-_jackal_headed_god_of_egypt.asp

The Ancient Egyptian Concept of the Soul

For the ancient Egyptians, their body and soul that made up the ‘being of man’ consisted of nine parts. There was the physical form and eight immortal or semi-divine parts that survived death. Each of these nine parts survived after death and required provisions and protection in the afterlife. Each required sustenance and shelter if the deceased should not die a second time. These nine parts consisted of:

· Khat (Kha) – the physical form
· Ka – the Spirit of Emotional Body
· Ba – the Soul
· Khaibit – the shadow
· Akhu (Akh, Khu, Ikhu) – being of light
· Sahu – the incorruptible spiritual body
· Sekhem – the life force
· Ab (Ib) – the heart
· Ren – the true name.

http://www.per-ankh.co.uk/featured_articles/the_book_of_the_dead.asp

If Osiris is the god of absolute life, who essence includes death, then the duality of Osiris and Seth is that of death and life. Osiris is death from which life arises, and Seth is the life which produces death.

P. 95 – Seth, God of Confusion, H Te Velde. (via thewitchingcow)

you can not kill me
because i have blood made
of gods and heros,

do not tell me i’m worthless,
i’ll make you crumble
to the ground

with my dark brown eyes,
i am worthy
i am powerful,

there is a kingdom
inside of me, and
i am ready to fight

with a heart made
of steel. i will not
break. i have a

soul of a warrior,
i will not die.

you will not ruin me / a.a.m.l (via okayodysseus)