{"id":56,"date":"2011-01-27T15:06:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T20:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/?p=56"},"modified":"2015-03-22T20:42:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T00:42:31","slug":"song-for-heru-hekenu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/2011\/01\/27\/song-for-heru-hekenu\/","title":{"rendered":"Song for Heru-hekenu"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-56-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Song-for-Heru-hekenu.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Song-for-Heru-hekenu.mp3\">https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Song-for-Heru-hekenu.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><font size=+1>Song for Heru-hekenu<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=-2>&#169; 2011 Natalie Baan<\/font><\/p>\n<p>O mighty son of Bast!<br \/>\nIn glory as You cross<br \/>\nthe sky, You burn,<br \/>\nand like frost You glitter.<br \/>\nFierce purity of fire,<br \/>\nYou pierce us with desire,<br \/>\nwings outstretched in the gyre,<br \/>\nHeru-hekenu!<\/p>\n<p>Swift arrow in its flight,<br \/>\nYou dazzle every eye,<br \/>\nso brilliantly You dance<br \/>\nin Your bright heaven.<br \/>\nO falcon strewn with stars,<br \/>\ndelighting every heart,<br \/>\nLord of the perfume jar,<br \/>\nHeru-hekenu!<\/p>\n<p>Lion adorned with praise,<br \/>\nwith thunder in Your mane,<br \/>\nlike the lotus of the sun<br \/>\nYou blaze, You blaze!<br \/>\nYou are Your mother&#8217;s knife,<br \/>\nembracing peace and strife,<br \/>\nall the sweetness of life,<br \/>\nHeru-hekenu!<\/p>\n<p>The flower and the flame,<br \/>\nThe feather and the blade,<br \/>\nYou come rocking our world*<br \/>\nin Your name of Tem.<br \/>\nMa&#8217;ahes when You roar,<br \/>\nNefertem we adore,<br \/>\nlike Ra forever soar,<br \/>\nHeru-hekenu!<br \/>\nO mighty son of Bast,<br \/>\nHeru-hekenu!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><font size=-2><i>Notes<\/i>: Written in the summer of 2009. Heru-hekenu (Heru of praises) was worshipped as Bast&#8217;s son at Per-Bast, as part of a triad with Her and Tem. He also syncretizes with Tem (and as Tem-Heru-hekenu is apparently a Name of Ra) and is identified with Bast&#8217;s other sons, Ma&#8217;ahes and Nefertem.<\/p>\n<p>* If you&#8217;d refer a more traditional line, feel free to replace this with the alternative: &#8220;In beauty You appear&#8221;.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song for Heru-hekenu &#169; 2011 Natalie Baan O mighty son of Bast! In glory as You cross the sky, You burn, and like frost You glitter. Fierce purity of fire, You pierce us with desire, wings outstretched in the gyre, Heru-hekenu! Swift arrow in its flight, You dazzle every eye, so brilliantly You dance in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heru-hekenu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firecat.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}