Your Ma’at is enough if all you can do is take better care of yourself, be gentle and kind to yourself in a world that beats you down that is enough. Your Ma’at Counts if it is letting someone go ahead of you in the check out queue. Your Ma’at is enough if it is being a shoulder to cry on, or crying on a shoulder. Ma’at is relational. Your Ma’at Counts if it’s just reporting hateful things, or standing up for someone, online or off. Your Ma’at is enough if you smile at your gods when before you would have frowned.
It is not just by great acts that the darkness is driven back. Set does not spear the beast alone. All of us are holding the barque a float. With each small action we help.
Your Ma’at is enough, it counts and so do you.
Holy shit Idi, I didn’t realize how much I needed this
Hey, if you think it’s appropriate to refer to Apep as a “thing,” with ‘it’ pronouns, or say he’s not a god, please block me. If you’re so worried about other people’s religions, maybe you should do some soul searching about why you have such negative feelings, because I guarantee you that the gods wouldn’t bother with this petty bullshit. I know my patron would smack the shit out of me if I was acting like how y’all do about Apep.
Additionally if you shame people for their choice of deities to worship just because they’re evil, destroyers or chaotic, block me. If they want to follow that path, even if it’s against all your personal faith, honey it’s none of your goddamn business. You have no right to shit talk the gods, divine entities, or their devotees just because you feel you’re doing your own deities a favor. Fucking get a petty level check and get those lemons outta your ass 👌
Idk if y’all missed Kemetic induction day, but A/p/e/p isn’t a Netjer (God), CERTAINLY isn’t in any way ‘divine’ and his worship (shudders) has no place in the Kemetic community or any well-meaning pagan circles. Just so we’re clear, IT is literally Uncreated – it doesn’t technically even exist so, like, giving it pronouns and referring to it as a ‘thing’ seems pretty generous imo. But if ppl wanna worship a literal unfeeling, unthinking black hole thats only drive is to tear their entire world apart in front of them, then I can’t really stop them from doing that. Just do it somewhere far away from me. Enjoy your endless void of terror and darkness I guess – different strokes for different folks indeed.
tl;dr – a/p/e/p isn’t some misunderstood or demonized deity (Unless you’re reading some of the weird, badly researched/ translated sources that conflate him with Seth). To us Kemetics, worshiping it is essentially wishing a slow and painful death upon each and every one of us. Not sure how opposing that is petty, but go on I guess.
Mmm, writes post about respecting other peoples religions…immediately disrespects other peoples beliefs and religions…thats some tasty hypocrisy. Delicious.
Speaking of petty bullshit…That comment…prime.
Just for extra context… @deadlydeamonflashmob was just trying to give you some context to this entity and some information as to why this entity isn’t worshiped and why it’s railed against, but be a dick I guess.
How is me saying I don’t care about ranting being disrespectful of beliefs? Pff. You’re reaching. I know of people who worship Apep and I know of people who worship other gods of destruction and chaos in various religious. The Tumblr Kemetic community just seems to have a stick up their ass over individuality. Shrugs.
Oh honey…in your original vagueblog:
“If you’re so worried about other people’s religions, maybe you should do some soul searching about why you have such negative feelings, because I guarantee you that the gods wouldn’t bother with this petty bullshit.“
You’re directly saying kemetics believing the Wyrm being a horrid entity of Uncreation, the force of returning everything to before matter and energy, before the big bang…is “petty bullshit”.
You’re directly saying kemetics believing that this thing should not be worshiped because it’s the worst evil imaginable, is petty bullshit.
The Wyrm wants to tear your soul apart and eat it like an hors
d’oeuvre. This is not “petty bullshit”, it’s a fundamental point of our
religion, which you’re disrespecting by unironically telling us we
shouldn’t talk about how evil it is…HOOONEYYYYY!!!
You’re saying, kemetics offering you information about WHAT it is and WHY its bad so you can make an informed decision…is petty bullshit. Honey, HHOOONEYYY...No. You literally sat there and tried to tell us we are wrong about our religion. Because believing what we believe is somehow “inappropriate”. Child, sit down.
But lets look at the other part…
“ I know my patron would smack the shit out of me if I was acting like how y’all do about Apep.“
Mmmm…delicious.
According to your blog your patron is Fenrir, you know what, I know plenty of people who worship Fenrir and he’s a good guy to them…but I would hope they’d encourage you to not no near the universe negating blob of nothingness…I would hope they care about you enough to not encourage you to interact with it.
The Wyrm isn’t like Fenrir. It wasn’t a loyal member of the pantheon whom the pantheon betrayed and sealed away over a prophecy. It came into being at the same time as Atum (the embodiment and god of being, creation, substance). The Wyrm is his polar opposite and is constantly trying to destroy him.
I recommend this lovely article about the Wyrm if you are interested in learning about it. ( Apophis: On the Origin, Name, and Nature of an Ancient Egyptian Anti-God by Ludwig Morenz
). It’s a good article.
“You’re reaching.“
Mmmm, not a reach my dude, friend, pal. Not a reach. I’m just informed.
You’re conflating the Wyrm with other “gods of destruction” which is not what it is, this is simply a point of accuracy. It’s an “Anti-God”, if you want to classify it.
All anyone said was “You shouldn’t worship it but whatever, do what you want”. But here you are going off XD. This has nothing to do with individuality, just concerned people who know what they are talking about, giving ya fair warning, and trying to offer some education on this entity you want to die on a hill for. But hey, do what you want, we’re just trying to inform you, its a bad idea and maybe we know what we’re talking about here.
“The Tumblr Kemetic community just seems to have a stick up their ass over individuality.“
Ooooh child, this is petty. Again, all anyone said is you shouldn’t …not you can’t. So calm down, we aren’t your parents telling you weed is bad mmkay. Now, there are some topics the kemetic community can be stuffy about but we all seem to agree that the Wyrm is not a good guy. Every single one of us is individual, and we all have our own practices, done our own ways. So I dunno where you get this bullshit “such cultish unindividualzez” crapola from.
“More cultish then christians”, oh child, that’s adorable. While the Christian concepts of demons, evil, and Satan/Lucifer all come from demonizing former Caananite gods and creatures…That’s not the territory we are in here. If you’re going to make some one off snarky comment, at least be accurate otherwise it’s embarrassing.
Also no, no one’s “sending their buddies after you”, I just saw my friend send you some info and gently suggest that, you shouldn’t worship it, and you wanted to be a dick. But whatever, be a dick I guess.
IN CASE IT WASN’T CLEAR: A/P/E/P WORSHIPERS ARENT KEMETIC AND HAVE INHERENTLY LOST THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING WITH OUR GODS. AN ALLY OF A/P/E/P IS AN ENEMY OF THE NETJER. THIS ISN’T UP FOR DEBATE, IT’S HOW WAR FUCKING WORKS.
“I am fine.”, Relena insisted once more. She felt a bit tipsy, something she wouldn’t admit out loud, especially considering that the young queen felt more than capable to walk down the stairs on her own. She had done it several times already and a bit of wine couldn’t make it that much harder in her opinion. Her mother and uncle were constantly drinking, far more than she had this evening, and they moved around freely in the Red Keep, without and issues or ever falling down the stairs, therefore she simply concluded that she would be perfectly able to do the same. “I don’t need your help.”
The girl was persistant, he gave her that much. But Aegon was just as much and she’d learn that well enough one way or another. “I don’t want to have to use my strength against you. But the minute you start to fall or stumble…” He warned as he backed off a bit, keeping a close eye on the woman. He shook his head as he thought of her mother and uncle and decided while the Targayrens were famed for having madness skip a generation or so, Lannisters drank too much every generation, sometimes two in one. “If you insist” He shrugged, deciding to go on ahead of her down the stairs.
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)
Goldnwulf 