Kemetic Religious Words
One should get to know and are used often
Guide with the Kemetic transliteration and MDC with full definition. Strictly meant as a helpful guide to flowers of the faith.
Abdju (abDw): Cemetery, Abydos
Akhet (Axt): season of flooding or inundation
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Akhet could be a time of blessing or cure. About a two week high tide, flooding the lands with nourishing black silt. If the Nile flooded too much or at the wrong time it could take lives and if it was too little it did not nourish the crops and could bring many problems to the land including famine and plague.
Season of
akhu (Axw): Shinning ones, Blessed ones
Blessed dead. Anyone who has died and passed the weighing of the heart and passed on to be a part of the blessed dead. After death the journey of the Akhu and Judgement takes 72 days. Sometimes this words is used for your dead ancestors.
ankh (anx): life or sworn oath
Atum (itm): The complete
'Self-Created One' sometimes called Tem. One of the main Creation gods.
ba (bA): Soul
bau (bAw): plural form , Souls
Is our eternal essence, that does not die. The only way a ba can die is if it is fed to Ammut. It continues on after death. It can create another ka and reincarnate or live in the afterlife.
beloved, Meruty (mrwty):
Gods who you are close too. You can have Multiple beloveds
binet (bint) : oppression, evil
isfet-related action or evil related action
Probably a more appropriate word for oppression might be ahābet/Aabt or fek/fk
dua (dwA): The praise, worship, pray, give thanks
The act of giving praise in the the Henu position.
Duat (dwAt): Underworld
Just one name for the unseen world.
gereg (grg): lying, falsehood
isfet-related speach or evil related speech
heka (HkA): Magic 'Speaking with authority'
Based on spoken words and actions. words are powerful and have meaning. "Words spoken with specific intent..."KO Practice of writing a prayer on an object and then ingesting it, objects or talismans.
hekau (HkAw): Magician
People who practice magic who are not priests or sometimes called sau 'protectors'
Heka (HkA): The god of magic
Hem-Netjer (Hm-nTr): Servant of God (5)
Hemu-Netjer (Hmu-nTr): Plural form (m)
Hemet-Netjer (Hmt-nTr): Female form
Hemut-Netjer (Hmwt-nTr) Plural form (f)
Hemet-Netjer (Hmt-nTr): Female form A status within the KO church Hemu-Netjer (Hmw-nTr): Servants of God
A legally-ordained priests as well as counselors. A modern day minister. Who assists the Nisut
minimum of 12 hours a week of voluntary service to the people of our faith. It can take 4-10 years to complete the Hem-Netjer training.
henu (Hnw): Honor gesture, rejoicing, jubilation, praise
Positions of hands while praise is given during worship. Hands out in front of you, palms up, open, and slightly cupped. Ka position arms up and bent at a 90 degrees angle with palms out.
Heri-sesheta (Hry-sStA): One who is over the secret
Priest that train in Heka pertaining to their parent gods.
Hu (Hw): God
Personification of Ra. The first word uttered by Atum when he created the world through masturbation or when he spilled blood through cutting his penis, possibly reference to a circumcision. Personification of Ra. The first word uttered by Atum when he created the world through masturbation or when he spille blood through cutting his penis possibly reference to a circumcision. He is a companion the King along with Hu as well as part of Heka the god of magic and the 'creative utterance'. Occasionally identified with Djehuty. Part of the 14 creative powers of Amun-Ra New kingdom. Pictured as human, falcon or a human body with a ram's head. Personification of Ra. The first word uttered by Atum when he created the world through masturbation or when he spilled blood through cutting his penis, possibly reference to a circumcision. Personification of Ra. The first word uttered by Atum when he created the world through masturbation or when he spilled blood through cutting his penis possibly reference to a circumcision. He is a companion the King along with Hu as well as part of Heka the god of magic and the 'creative utterance'.
isfet (isft): Evil, wrong, wrong-doing, falsehood, disorder
Opposite of ma'at
It-Netjer (it-nTr): Father of god
Mut-Netjer (mwt-nTr): Mother of god
A status within the KO church. A Priest position. A trained W'ab priest in the ritual of Saq. A Ceremony in KO where a priest will allow their body to be possessed by a Netjer
A status within the KO church. A Priest position.
ka(kA): personal souls, consciousness, personality
kau (kAw): Plural
Does not reincarnate, remains after death. It is a unique personality conscience to a particular incarnation. It is unique to he one life time it lived. It can visit and aide your decedents. The ka can die if it is not fed and remembered by ancestors. You can have multiple kAs.
Does not reincarnate, remains after death. It is a unnique perosnlity conscience to a particualar incarnation. It is unique to he one life time it lived. It can visit and aide your decedents. The ka can die if it is not fed and remembered by ancestors. You can have multiple kAs.
khat (xAt): physical body, corpse
Kher-heb Priesthood (xr-Hb(t)): Over the (ritual) Book
A status within the KO church. A Priest position. A Lector Priest who is responsible for reading and speaking in formal rites.
A status within the KO church. A Priest position.
Kemet (kmt): one of the names of Egypt, black lands
Other names
Ta-mery (tA-Mry): beloved lands, another name for Egypt
Hut-ka-Ptah (Hwt-kA-ptH): Egyptian for The house of the ka of Ptah
hi(t)-ka(u)-ptah: Coptic for Egypt The house of the ka of Ptah
aA-ku-pi-ti-jo: Late egyptian
Aiguptos/Αἰγύπτος: Greek
Kemetic Othodox: Modern faith of Ancient Egyptian religion
The continuation of the ancient religion from Antiquity. It is not reinvented or changed to reflect modern times. A special type polytheistic religion often referred to as Henotheism or Monolatry.
Ma'at: (mAat): the goddess
ma'at: (mAat): concept of balance and truth
It is a cosmic order of balance that encompassing the world and it should be maintained. What is true, what is right, what is just and what is righteous. Sometimes referred to the Laws of Ma'at and corresponds to the 24 confessions from /ra nw prt m Hrw / the Dead or the Book or the Book of Coming Forth by Day.
muuet (): dead ones
Muuetu: Plural
Muutet: Female
Dead people who have not gone through the Judgement of the weighing of the heart and are stuck in between realms. They can be a spirit who is malicious similar to a poltergeist who, has unfinished business, became confused upon death, dead body was not taken care of or properly venerated by their living relatives, died unfairly or lived a hard life. These can also be ghosts are harmful spirits they can attack a living human. They can attach themselves to a living human and cause harm. Either evocation in a way of a curse or a living human being entering into a place they are protecting. That can attach to a place a thing or a human.
Netjer (nTr): Divineness, divine power (god)
Netjeru (nTrw): Plural
Netjeret (nTrt): feminine
Netjerut (nTrwt): Plural feminine
The one main power that all gods stem from.
Netjeri (nTry): Divine, sacred
None human spirits in the afterlife
Nisu (nsw): King of upper Egypt (male form)
Slang for King
Nisut (nswt): King of upper Egypt (female form)
Slang for King
Nisu-bity (nsw-bity): King of upper and lower Egypt (male form)
Nisut-bity (nswt-bity): King of upper and lower Egypt (female form)
Nun (nwn): Formless water
parent:
Gods who are our parents. You can have up to two Parents and you find out who they are through Parent Divination Ritual (RPD).
Peret (prt): Season of Growing or 'coming forth'
Check calender under the Religion tab for more info
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Remetj (rmT): mankind, the people, Egyptians (1)
A status within the KO church who are citizens of Kemet/ Egypt known as 'people of the land'.
ren (rn): name, true name
sa (sA): Protection, amulet of protection
sau (sAw): plural form, Protectors, magicians
Sebau (sbAw): Teacher, teach
can also mean student or pupil
seba (sbA): star, teach, teaching
A star with five points stands for four pillars with ma'at holding it all together. nTr, Ax, Niswt, (Smsw and rmT)
seen world: ta (tA), nety ra shenu (nty ra Snw)
World of the living and five senses
sekhem (sxm): Vital 'power'
senebty (snbty): May you be healthy, farewell, goodbye
Senut shrine (snwt): shrine rites
Setem (stm) or Sem (sm):
A status within the KO church. A Priest position. A possition of W'ab priests who are responsible for death and the dead as well as appealing to the Akhu.
A status within the KO church. A Priest position.
Shemsu (Smsw): Followers, retainers, attendants, worshipers (2)
A status with in the KO church who Undergo the Rite of Parent Divination
Shemsu-Ankh (Smsw-) :Sworn Followers (3)
A status within the KO church who give total dedication to Kemetic Orthodoxy
Shemu (Smw): Season of Harvest
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Sia, Saa (SiA): God
Personification of Ra. The first word uttered by Atum when he created the world through masturbation or when he spilled blood through cutting his penis, possibly reference to a circumcision. Personification of Ra. The first word uttered by Atum when he created the world through masturbation or when he spilled blood through cutting his penis possibly reference to a circumcision. He is a companion the King along with Hu as well as part of Heka the god of magic and the 'creative utterance'. Part of the special powers helping the creator. One of the intellectual energies of the heart of Ptah. Connection to writing and often held a papyrus scroll the embodiment of intellectual achievements.
Tawy (tAwy): The two lands of Upper an lower Egypt.
Tayet (tAyt): A goddess of weaving, linen and purity
considered to be an aspect of Auset
unseen world: The afterlife, the Underworld, the Netherworld
duat (dwAt), Xert-Netjer (Xrt-nTr)
W'ab Priesthood (wab): Servant of Purity (4)
A status within the KO church. A Priest position. Must be active for 2 years between Parent Divination and becoming a Priest. They perform the rituals, and maintain purity, while teaching the faith. All priest begin here. They are responsible for maintaining purity. They must be a Shemsu-Ankh first and are consecrated and trained. They do not have to be ordained Hemu-Netjer. They are considered Lay Priests or non-legally ordianed.
Weshem-ib (wSm-ib): Testing of the Heart
Held on the Kemetic New Year. Must wait a year after ceremony to become a W'ab Priest. X
X: Root name, formula "X is in festival"
X is the name of the netjeru or netjerut who protect the child. Children in Kemet would be isolated with their mothers for 14 days on which a name would be given by a priest.
