![]() ![]() When the personal moral strength we get from religion is combined with a concern for power to realize our values by pushing them on others, the road to misunderstandings, and then to anger and even hatred, is opened wide with few of us wise enough to tread it successfully.īy “politics” I mean discussing and deciding on the values our broader community must abide by on pain of sanctions, whether they be the violence of the state, or condemnation and shunning those who disagree within smaller communities and organizations. It creates boundaries of separation where there were none and exaggerates boundaries that already existed. Why is it always destructive? Because politics usually involves conflict and conflict has a powerful tendency to elevate will and power over persuasion, example, and heart. Sometimes it may be necessary, but it is always destructive and so can be justified only to prevent a greater destruction. We were there a couple of weeks later.Because I think that allowing politics to enter into religion is always a bad thing whenever it happens. The alignment would be very near perfect at the Winter Solstice, to which the temple is aligned. It shows the rising sun shining directly into the sanctuary of Amun, albeit somewhat misaligned. The photograph is one I took at Deir el Bahri Temple in January 2016. It will receive its own treatment in a subsequent post. One of those, Utterance 6 of the Temple Statue Ritual (Berlin Papyrus 3055), titled simply ky r(A) “Another Utterance”, contains a quite interesting version. There are more examples of the Morning Hymn text than are covered in ‘Waking the Gods’. The Egyptians had multiple versions, and we can too. No need to obsess over doing them one right way. They are meant as tools and (hopefully) take off points for your own practice. ![]() By all means experiment – sing them in English or Egyptian, for any God or Goddess, using whichever way of saying Their names that is meaningful to you, or chant them, or say them out loud. If you feel so moved, use them in your own devotions. The ‘Waking the Gods Handout’ provides a short form Morning Hymn vocalization for both a God and a Goddess and a pronunciation key. We sang about half of that Hymn as part of the presentation, diverging a little bit from the plan in the blurb text. You will notice that some of the material from The Morning Hymn for Seven Goddesses is included in the Pantheacon slides. Nevertheless, I will leave these here in the interest of documentation and as a reference point for some later posts, so I may refer back to them. These slides are clearly not the complete content of the talks and unfortunately the talks were not recorded. Weaving The Cloth Of Reality Presentation Presentation – PDF rendering of PowerPoint slides We will explore sound and how it can deepen our modern understanding and practice of Egyptian ritual by looking at current progress in reconstructing the pronunciation of Egyptian, analyze the layers of meaning in some simple ritual texts, and then pronounce them”. The goal is to please the Gods, re-energize Them, and sustain creation itself each day. Weaving the Cloth of Reality: Word and Sound in Egyptian Ritualĭescriptive blurb submitted for the Pantheacon Program: “Egyptian rituals use the sounds of words, along with their meanings, to connect to mythic themes and tie the ritual utterances together into effective tools. Presentation – PDF rendering of PowerPoint slides and a PDF handout distributed at the talk. ![]() We will end by learning to pronounce and sing choral portions of the hymn and then perform a complete hymn together for a God or Goddess”. Here are two presentations delivered at Pantheacon 2016: Waking up Gods, Waking up Creation: The Egyptian Morning Hymnĭescriptive blurb submitted for the Pantheacon Program: “We will explore the Morning Hymn used to waken the Gods and Goddesses in Egyptian Temples – covering the hymn’s history, meaning, parts, and performance. ![]()
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