Em hotep!
I am Djehutyendy, or Endy for short. I first joined the House almost two decades ago and have been active to varying degrees over this time. I was originally divined a child of Djehuty and beloved of Hethert, but Geb was added on as a Beloved a couple years later.
I left the house in early 2020 (right before the pandemic) for various reasons. Oof that was a rough year and I immediately missed this community. I maintained an active ritual practice for a time but the lack of community kind of made my ritual practice fall apart, outside of the occasional offering here or there. However my love for the Netjeru never waned.
Anyway, I have recently decided to get into soap making and have been reading about this craft for over a month. During this time, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about soaps that I eventually want to make for the Netjeru or how I could make ritually pure soap (old habits die hard for thinking about ritual purity ). Thinking about all of this reminded me of this community and how creative so many people are in their devotional work, or even just creative for their own hobbies. I miss seeing this all and being inspired by the beautiful and creative minds of Kemetics. So, I find myself here again. I don’t necessarily have plans to became ritually active at this moment therefore I don’t know how active I will be in this temple again. But I wanted to write this “Introduction” post so I am not just a creepy lurker
I also got into knitting about a year ago. Weirdly I have not thought about knitting anything for the Netjeru, but I am beginning to get ideas. Although my list of things to knit is outrageously long so we will see where that goes!
Lastly, I noticed my profile picture is the same that I had when I was previously active. This was my sweet Phoenix who passed in March 2023 due to cancer. She was my soul cat and my heart still aches for her. It was a nice surprise to see her face when I logged in, so I will be keeping this profile picture. Now we have two cats, a gray one named Miss Betty and a tortie named Glow (the blanket Miss Betty is on is one of the first things I knit).
Senebty,
Endy