RevRenee
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Reged: 06/12/01
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Em hotep all
<bow> There is a line in the Hymn to Wesir Rev Sedgwick shared in her Wesir post that really struck us today--
Basically it says that Wesir is unique in that "He is His own protection."
In what sense might we say that Wesir is or generates His own protection? Who protects the rest of the Netjeru?
Perhaps my previous Christian background is seeping out here a bit  Maybe. Although I would not be the first to note the connection between Wesir and Jesus. . .
While I would never claim them to be "the same," there are some parallels which those of us growing up in a predominantly Christian culture could not easily miss. But while from that standpoint we might be tempted to state we need protection from "sin,” this does not quite get the Kemetic meaning of “protection” in the context of Wesir.
From what do we need protection in a Kemetic sense?
Isfet-- certainly, but each Netjer provides Itself and us that protection: Ma'at IS that protection.
More than Isfet we need protection from NON EXISTENCE! For the Ancient Egyptians and contemporary Kemetic Traditionalists, COMPLETE NON EXISTENCE is feared above all else. Existence—LIFE—is valued above all else in our faith!
And by His death and resurrection as King of the West Wesir provides Himself, the Netjeru and ALL of creation protection from the absolute ending of the cycle of life...
And of course in providing with Aset the Son who will become the Nisut—the King of the social realm—He opens for us a possibility and a path to live our lives in Ma'at and for death to be merely a transition—a Kheperu, that is, a change of form or modality of existence.
On Heru Wer's birthday let us recall that His assumption of His Father's throne was by no means quick or simple. And He did not do it alone. Yet His Eye watches, heals and protects us as He, the Sacred Falcon calls us to accept our place in the larger whole and our part in creating Ma'at in our world.
As Heru was victorious over the forces of Isfet and recognized a place in creation for all, may we open our hearts to recognize and appreciate Heru's leadership and allow Him to guide us to be our very best.
In fact we are the Shemsu of Heru Wer because we accept his guidance and correction so that we like the Eloquent Peasant will speak and do Ma'at: "for doing Ma'at is breath for the nose."
Let us do Ma'at for our Lord Heru Wer
Let us please Him with what He loves
That we speak truly and do justice
That we speak of what is good and repeat the good words
That we support the weak from those more powerful as much as we each can.
That we give bread to the hungry and clothes to the naked.
Please feel free share your reflections or prayers for Heru-Wer
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Rev Renee Levant, Hemet Sekhmet & Aset
Founder & Wehemu & Educational Director
Per Ankh: The Traditional Religion of Ancient Egypt
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RevRenee
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Hotep friends,
Let's take a look at some of the ways Heru-Wer has been experienced by our practitioners today that might shed light on His Ancient title "the distant one" or the High one" or the far-off one"
First--And Most Literally-- He was always strongly associated with the sky. His right and left eye with the sun and the moon respectively.
When I first started hiking and was rather wimpy about the outdoors (now a distant memory) I was really taken by Heru in His relationship to the sky. It was deep in the forest (on a clearly marked trail). I was scared. I remember looking up seeing the sun and the moon at once and feeling so protected and safe and so much like I had a place in the order of things..as if the boundries of the land had been marked out and I would not just get lost as He was there to guide me from a distance.
The distance did not make Him seem less intimate..but rather it was the way He had a view of the whole..of where each thing best fit and could most be what it is meant to be.
Later when the sun went down..and I was lost (this happened several times) I noticed the Sky. The first time I was lost I experienced the evening sky and stars as the belly of Nut. This was in part because I had more of a connection to Her and was more familiar withy Her association with the night sky. But another time I was lost early evening and I could not help but see the sky as Heru. That surprised me greatly. But it was a very different sort of force and energy than the previous encounter with Netjer by way of the sky. I later read about how Heru-Wer's outstretched feathers are sometimes experienced as the sky and the speckles on the feathers as the Stars!!!
YES! That is when I really got it. Not book knowledge of the meaning of the Distant one..but the sort of knowledge that is in your bones and muscle:)
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Rev Renee Levant, Hemet Sekhmet & Aset
Founder & Wehemu & Educational Director
Per Ankh: The Traditional Religion of Ancient Egypt
http://www.per-ankh.org
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Shepen
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I remember looking up seeing the sun and the moon at once and feeling so protected and safe and so much like I had a place in the order of things..as if the boundries of the land had been marked out and I would not just get lost as He was there to guide me from a distance.
I remember feeling the same thing as a kid riding my bike in the country. I'd go to the top of the hill and see the sky and the sun and moon togetherr like that, and just imagine Heru. Fancy that I became a pagan later... 
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