Everlasting Egypt: Kemetic Rituals for the Gods

by Richard J. Reidy

Everlasting Kemetic Rituals for the Gods continues Richard Reidys groundbreaking work and collects more temple rituals from Egypt. The author presents rites for personal and group use, augmenting and updating those in his first volume, Eternal Ancient Rituals for the Modern World. The Presents over 37 rituals for Gods, Goddesses, and Annual and Lunar Festivals in a form designed to assist practitioners in restoring the ancient rites of Egypt; Provides for modern usage, with key ritual texts coming from authenticated ancient sources, as well as commentaries and background information; Includes a comprehensive Introduction with a model for organizing a modern Kemetic Temple or Group; Includes updated Egyptian vocalizations and a pronunciation key; Offers practical information for conducting these rituals in todays world. These ritual texts reveal once more the deeply spiritual understanding of humanitys relationship to divinity that characterized the ancient Egyptian sense of the sacred. Cover Ritual scene from the Temple of Hathor at Deir el Medina. Ptolemaic Period. Matthew Whealton, 2018.

Genres: Egyptology

758 pages, Paperback

Published July 18, 2018

Reviews

[Heath Clyphe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very well researched and well written. This is a sequel to Eternal Egypt, which contains several rituals. Everlasting Egypt instead contains essentially one ritual tweaked to be performed for each god. Excellent if you're interested in learning epithets of the gods and their sources.