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antlering:

dua Sobek, king river,
holy sharp-of-teeth,
lord of all those who
walk the soft limestone
between swamp and sea.
may the dawn-red glow
of your eyes guide us
when cypress and fog
block the stars above.
may the rumbling thunder
of your calls remind us
we do not hunt alone.

– Dua Sobek (Ra) in the Mangrove Swamp ( @antlering )

(for all the times a gator has warned me of the correct path)

pomegranateandivy:

It’s okay to doubt.

Be gentle on those who are going through doubt. 

Belief is hard. It isn’t easy for everyone, and it isn’t easy at all times. There are times in your life when you feel alone. When you can’t understand why something happened. When you experience something which shakes your entire system of belief. I wish I could tell you there’s an easy way to regain faith or to get rid of doubt. I wish I could tell you to go feel the sun on your face and remember the love of your deities, but it’s not always that easy.

Firstly, be gentle with others who go through times of doubt, because it’s not an easy thing, they need your understanding. And one day you may need the same.

Next, look back to what sparked your faith in the first place. Were you raised in it, never questioning your belief before? Did something happen to make you believe? Looking back to what started your belief can help you regain it.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions. A thing which can stand up to scrutiny is stronger for it. Asking questions of your faith can strengthen your belief and deepen your spiritual ties. 

Be your own tool for restoring your faith. If you need to believe in people doing good acts for their faith, then do those good acts. If you need to experience the beauty of nature to believe this isn’t all meaningless, then go find that beauty. If you need guidance, seek it out. Do not wait for someone else to restore your faith.

Give thanks where you see an opportunity for it. Thank your deities for the motivation to help someone, for the beauty of a sunrise, for reading in the paper that a lost child got home safe.

thegodthief:

Remake yourself.

It hurts, and it’s bloody, and sometimes that blood isn’t metaphorical. You have to face things about yourself you didn’t want to face and admit the lies you had comforted yourself with were the most vicious lies of them all, and you’re going to wonder why you haven’t just settled the matter once and for all.

Do it anyway.

The mold you have been forced to fit into never fitted you, never fitted anyone, and was created for the sole reason for making you comfortable for other people but never for you to be comfortable for yourself.

Once you break the mold, what you refashion yourself into will fit your self a little better, but it won’t be perfect. You won’t be this “new self” forever, but it will allow you to see a little more clear, and to speak a little more loud, and to be a little more what you are comfortable being.

You will remake yourself often.

Each time you take a hammer to the form, it will be because you found another lie you can’t live with anymore, or you found another leech you won’t tolerate anymore, or you realize that even though you’re a little better than before, you need to keep working at yourself if you are going to survive.

You will survive.

After a few iterations of this, you’ll look back and not recognize yourself. You’ll see who you were in the distant past and realize that is not the person you are now, and the person you are now is not likely to be the person you will become this time next year.

And that’s okay.

That’s how you will survive.

It’s okay if you can’t stand who you are right now. Because that is the launching point. That is the clearing of the work table and the gathering of the tools. This is how you start: Identify what you want to change and start breaking the mold off of it.

It will hurt and it will be bloody and your personal connections will change and you will lose friends and “friends” and that’s okay.

As long as you are doing this for you, that’s okay.

(Ice cream helps.)

adv3nturelust:

This is it: this is your sign. You’re brand new, refreshed, empowered to change. Your calmer, softer times are coming. Your confidence, your happiness, your bliss, is arriving. Self acceptance is easier, and taking care of yourself is no longer a chore, but something you look forward to. You start to feel replenished – you’re *you* again – and the next chapter of your happier life begins now.

pagansubmorine:

Your deities hear you.

They hear every prayer. They hear every question, every wish, every whisper that is meant for them.

Even if it feels like there’s no one there sometimes. Even if it feels like your prayers aren’t being answered.

They hear you. They love you. They understand you. You don’t need to hear them for this to be true.

For Newbie Kemetics, Re: Godphones

ladyofplagues:

Not every response to a prayer will be big and obvious. Not every request from a God will be followed through on, for a variety of reasons. Maybe you think you want it, but They know a different path awaits you. Maybe They think you can do it on your own. Maybe They want something in return. Maybe They want you to build up a better relationship with you first. Maybe you asked the wrong God, and Someone else can help you more. Etc.

Here’s a few scenarios:

You ask a God for help on an upcoming test. You don’t seem to get a response.  Later that day, your friend asks you to study with them. Your study session helped you to remember what you needed to know, so you get an A.

You say a prayer to your God, and feel calm and happy afterwards.

You ask for advice, and your mind suddenly thinks of an answer.

You ask your God what They want as an offering. They say nothing, but at the store you suddenly have a craving for a certain food.

You have an urge to go and sit in front of your shrine.

While browsing the internet, several references to your God appear.

All of these are examples of ways a God might answer you. Not every reply is a loud shout. Sometimes it’s a feeling, an image. Sometimes They speak your head, but you think it’s just your thoughts. Sometimes They answer your prayer through other things- you want x, and someone who can give you x shows up in your life.

As your relationship with the Gods grow, you may become better at differentiating between help from your Gods and coincidence. Either way, the Gods are listening. Don’t get discouraged if it seems your prayers aren’t being answered- you may not realize that they are, in fact, being answered.

Sobek’s Name

heofspeckledplumage:

“Even
the meaning of his names, sbk, escapes us. It has been connected
with the verb sAq, ‘pull together’1
, which could also be written
sbq2
, so that it could be understood as ‘he who is reassembled’,
in conformity with an identification of Sobek with Osiris attested in the sources from the Late Period onwards; or also as ‘he who
reassembles’, evoking his role, known starting from the Middle
Kingdom, as saviour to the dead Osiris…” 

(Zecchi, Sobek of Shedet)