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		<title>G is for graciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Kemetic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the Pagan Blog Project: Ra in the sky is gracious to you, and he conciliates the Two Lords for you. &#8220;Night&#8221; is gracious to you, the Two Ladies are gracious to you. Graciousness is what has been brought to you, graciousness is what you see, graciousness is what you hear, graciousness is in front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windsong and words</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2012/04/09/windsong-and-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love to hear the wind whistle outside my office window, to see the blowing cherry petals flashing bright-dark-bright against the eggshell blue sky and the few slowly sailing, fray-edged clouds. If I lean forward at my computer, I can see an arch of the weeping cherry itself, the branches lashing like horse tails and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G is for gardens</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2012/04/08/g-is-for-gardens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home and Temple]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tending the Shrine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firecat.net/lapis/?p=1083</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the Pagan Blog Project: I was surprised a while ago, while reading a book on the garden in ancient Egypt, to learn that the people made gardens around the tombs. Surprised, but I can see it now, given the textual and iconographic depictions of the dead amidst the shade of trees, cool water, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>F is for Fedw</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[divination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fedw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pagan Blog Project]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firecat.net/lapis/?p=1075</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the Pagan Blog Project: I was thinking of writing about festivals for this letter, but I have both too much and too little to say about that at the moment. And after the last F post, I think I want to do something relatively uncomplicated. So I&#8217;m going to write about Fedw. Fedw is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>F is for fighting</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2012/03/22/f-is-for-fighting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pagan Blog Project 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pagan Blog Project]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firecat.net/lapis/?p=1046</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the Pagan Blog Project: &#160; As for the mountain of Bakhu on which the sky rests, it is in the east of the sky&#8230;. A serpent is on the top of that mountain; it is thirty cubits long. Eight cubits of its forepart are of flint, and its teeth gleam&#8230;. Now after a while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E is for Egypt</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2012/03/09/e-is-for-egypt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love of Land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pagan Blog Project 2012]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firecat.net/lapis/?p=1028</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the Pagan Blog Project. Click the photos for larger images. &#160; Where the Black Land meets the Red&#8230; &#160; &#8230;where the ancient lives beside the modern&#8230; &#160; &#8230;where the bennu still stands upon the sacred mound before taking flight above the waters&#8230; &#160; &#8230;and the restored Eye of Heru waxes in the evening sky&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heartbreak in the making</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2012/03/08/heartbreak-in-the-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Love of Land]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The university has a new construction project underway &#8212; as it usually does, being, like many schools, in a constant process of building and rebuilding, so as to attract students with all the best and shiniest things. At any rate, today I learned that the next phase may involve taking out the line of trees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E is for the Eye</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2012/03/08/e-is-for-the-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Netjeru]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firecat.net/lapis/?p=987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the Pagan Blog Project: For quite a while now I&#8217;ve been fascinated by the symbolism of the eye. Like so much in Kemetic thought, the eye has a dual nature &#8212; the function of an eye is to receive light, to take in the world around us, but the eye has a projective quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D is for desire</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2012/03/07/d-is-for-desire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Kemetic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Follow your desires as long as you live and do not perform more than is ordered; do not lessen the time of following your desires, for wasting time is an abomination to your ka. &#8212; from the Maxims of Ptahhotep (translation from one of the wehemu of Hekatawy I) Bast keeps wanting me to write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D is for the Day of Chewing Onions for Bast</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2012/03/05/d-is-for-the-day-of-chewing-onions-for-bast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pagan Blog Project 2012]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the Pagan Blog Project. I&#8217;m running behind, so I&#8217;ll start catching up with a photo blog from this weekend&#8217;s House of Netjer gathering, at which we celebrated our beloved Day of Chewing Onions for Bast. (Thank you to Wasi, Tepta, and Avy for helping to make this day so special!) The shrine, with the [...]]]></description>
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