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	<title>Gold of the Valley, Lapis of the River &#187; Festivals</title>
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		<title>The Feast of Heryshef</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2012/01/31/the-feast-of-heryshef/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Netjeru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pagan Blog Project 2012]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the Pagan Blog Project&#8216;s Imbolc prompt: Imbolc was one of my favorite Sabbats, back when I was kinda-sorta Wiccan. Although the beginning of February was generally still cold and wintery, it was the point at which I could always see the lengthening of the days, the hint of a shift in the wind, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lilac offering</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/05/14/lilac-offering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 10:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, for the Beautiful Feast of the Valley, a friend and I went to the Willowbrook Arboreteum&#8217;s lilac grove, where we left an offering of cinnamon-almond cookies and cool water for the Akhu, our beloved dead. It was a sublimely gorgeous day of bright sun, cool shade, and everywhere the flowers of May in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;and more festivals</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2011/03/07/and-more-festivals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Onion Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weekend before last, our local group had a get-together in honor of Nut and Geb. It was shortly after Nut&#8217;s birthday and in the general vicinity of Valentine&#8217;s Day, so it seemed appropriate to celebrate this divine couple, whose love and desire for each other were so overwhelming that they had to be separated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing between earth and sky</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/12/27/dancing-between-earth-and-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 03:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aset]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.firecat.net/lapis/?p=683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the holidays&#8230;the Kemetic holidays, that is. Not that there isn&#8217;t a festival on practically every day of the calendar, but at this time of year there&#8217;s a whole constellation of popular celebrations that I generally try to acknowledge. Following the House of Netjer&#8217;s calendar, there&#8217;s the Return of the Wandering Goddess at the solstice, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy (2010): Day 9</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/12/22/ten-days-of-joy-2010-day-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the festival of the Procession of Bast, and today&#8217;s joy has been the joy of understanding at last and letting go &#8212; of a lesson finally sliding home as I knelt before the shrine in prayer. May Bast walk through your day and your nighttime in this season of Her festivals, bringing Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten days of joy (2010): Days 4-7</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bast Guards the Two Lands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fell a bit behind due to the Northeast region&#8217;s Bast festival last weekend, so it&#8217;s time to catch up. Day 4: The joy of a truly luxuriant shower, warm and fragrant and soothing. O great gift of cleansing waters! Day 5: The joy of a shiver of ecstasy, the ringing of the sistra loud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday findings: Bes, dancing</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/10/15/ff-bes-dancing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wooden statue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Friday! To revive my Friday Findings postings, here&#8217;s a really unique figure of Bes dancing. (Click on the image to go to the item&#8217;s page at the British Museum.) Possibly a decorative element for a harp, He kicks up his feet and flings his arms wide, shaking music from His tambourine to celebrate life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of Zep Tepi</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/08/12/the-year-of-zep-tepi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/08/12/the-year-of-zep-tepi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts and Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mehet Weret]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ra]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today: the smell of rain on hot pavement, a blissful breath of cooler air, the hope that this long, sweltering summer might finally be drawing to a close. The House of Netjer&#8217;s New Year celebration was last week, so we&#8217;ve just entered the season of the Inundation, the rising of the great river, when a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/05/31/memorial-day-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 16:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poetry and Prayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akhu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heru-hekenu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I got up at the crack of dawn to do a small ritual for Memorial Day (as I&#8217;d mentioned previously). Out on the front lawn, I set up a little shrine with offerings and read the following prayer out loud at sunrise: &#160; A Memorial Day Prayer for Heru-hekenu and the Akhu Dua [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the Beautiful Feast</title>
		<link>http://www.firecat.net/lapis/2010/05/27/after-the-beautiful-feast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 18:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shefyt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being Kemetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beautiful Feast of the Valley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Beautiful Feast of the Valley has just ended, the great twelve-day festival during which the holy triad of Gods from Uaset, the city of Thebes &#8212; Amun, Mut, and Khonsu &#8212; sail to the western bank of the river to pay Their respects to Hethert and Wesir, and during which the people of Kemet [...]]]></description>
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