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I know the pun sounds obscure, but I think a few folks will get the joke.  

It looks like this pilgrim found the friendly auparishtaka priest.  




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http://www.synthesis.tc

I was just looking at Full Moon info and stumbled across this site.   

http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/legacy-of-kain-soulreaver-original-soundtrack

My favorite tracks are "Ruined City" and its two continuations.   

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      Season 1, Episode 1 – Aired: 11/1/2003
      The Awakening
      When a museum is hit by lightning, Pharaoh Tut-ankh-en-set-Amun is arisen from the dead in the current world. A cat named, Luxor, becomes his aide and a girl named Cleo Carter becomes his friend.

      Season 1, Episode 2 – Aired: 11/8/2003
      Curse of the Pharaoh
      The goddess Ammut is released from the underworld by El Zabkar. Her job is to ruin Tutenstein. Can Luxor, King Tut, and Cleo put a stop to her plans before Tutenstein is hurt?

      Season 1, Episode 3 – Aired: 11/15/2003
      Clash of the Shabtis
      Trouble begins when Tutenstein is asked by Cleo to assist her in purging the museum. Not feeling like doing it, Tut brings his shabtis, wooden tomb helping statues, to life to do the duty in his place. Tutenstein must stop the shabtis because they are becoming uncontrollable.

      Season 1, Episode 4 – Aired: 11/22/2003
      I Did It My Way
      King Tut misses the ancient Eygpt. He is becoming bothering by the ordinary world. So, he decides to create the current world like the past life. This life is also hard. Trying to control the ancient life, will he change the world back to the way it was before he won't be able to at all?

      Season 1, Episode 5 – Aired: 12/6/2003
      The Boat of Millions of Years
      Tut wishes viewing movies with one of his good friends, Cleo, would go on forever. The sun god, Ra, is summoned by Tutenstein, asking him to put off sunrise for a few more hours, so he can remain awake a little bit longer than usual. Ra is in trouble now. After time halts, it is up to King Tut to rescue Ra and fix time.

      Season 1, Episode 6 – Aired: 1/3/2004
      The Powerful One
      Luxor, Tutenstein, and Cleo must end the lioness goddess, Sekhmet's, upset fury towards civilization. She was awaken by King Tut and his bickering opposing the servants constructing his pyramid.

      Season 1, Episode 7 – Aired: 1/10/2003
      There's Something About Natasha
      Tutenstein really likes Natasha, Cleo's best friend. In hope to gain her love, he awakens to god of children, Bes. Tutenstein is suprised by the conclusion of the spell, it is not what he imagined. Now, Tut doesn't know what to do. He has to choose and be certain of Natasha being his real love, or a zombie affection.

      Season 1, Episode 8 – Aired: 1/17/2004
      King of Memphis
      There is a park known as the "Kingland Amusement Park" that venerates a king, rather than King Tut, himself. Tutenstein doesn't like to see the people at the park dressed as kings, so he splits his soul in half in hope to vie with them.

      Season 1, Episode 9 – Aired: 1/24/2004
      Roommates
      Cleo is a really good friend of Tut. But after he comes to live with her, she thinks she will never have the freedom she had before because King Tut tries out her possessions and does some other stuff she doesn't seem to like very much.

      Season 1, Episode 10 – Aired: 1/31/2004
      Ghostbusted
      The goddess, Isis, and King Tut are competing in a game of Senet. She becomes angry with him after he tries to slide through the game and not play fair. Tutenstein gets put in his place when Isis brings about Nebka, the apparition, also a past companion of King Tut's.

      Season 1, Episode 11 – Aired: 2/21/2004
      Near Dead Experience
      Cleo has caught a cold and Tutenstein becomes worried. He has never experienced this. So, he thinks she is in danger. King Tut's special doctor tries to preserve Cleo, causing some trouble.

      Season 1, Episode 12 – Aired: 2/28/2004
      The Unsafety Zone
      Two crooks steal the Crown of Geb after Tutenstein accidentally switches the alarm off in the display of the Geb when he was disturbed in his sleep.

      Season 1, Episode 13 – Aired: 3/6/2004
      Happy Coronation Day, Tutenstein
      The museum staff and Cleo throws a coronation celebration for Tut-ankh-en-set-Amun and Set's servants come to the celebration and steals RamessesII walking staff thinking it's the Scepter of Was so Tut and Luxor go to the Underworld to retrieve the staff of RamessesII before Cleo finds out

      Season 2, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/4/2004
      Old Man Tut
      Tut, 10 years old, wishes he were older. But when his ankle breaks, the aging process takes hold and he, Cleo and Luxor have to go to the underworld to convince Atum to change Tut back to his normal age.

      Season 2, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/11/2004
      Cleo's Catastrophe
      Tut accidentally switches Cleo and Luxor's minds, causing great chaos.

      Season 2, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/25/2004
      The Shadow Gobbler
      Trouble comes about when Tutenstein's shadow comes alive through magic and it has a mind of its own.
 
      Season 2, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/2/2004
      Tut Jr.
      Tut convinces Cleo that he is responsible enough to watch her little cousin Thomas. But, he winds up losing him.
 
      Season 2, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/9/2004
      Something Sphinx
      A fresh servant has seemed to taken Luxor's place. This makes Luxor feel sad. He decides to go somewhere else because he thinks his service is no longer needed. Some harm comes about to Tutenstein and his helper after Luxor leaves.

      Season 2, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/16/2004
      The Supreme Tut
      Tutenstein convinces the Gods to turn him into a God.

      Season 2, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/30/2004
      Day of the Undead
      Tut wants to go trick or treating when he learns about Halloween. Cleo and her friends are going to a haunted house so Tut tries to impress them by summoning a real ghost.

      Season 2, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/27/2004
      Friends
      Tutenstein becomes friends with a couple of punks, ignoring Cleo and Luxor's warning about them. His choices lead him to the Hall of Two Truths in the underworld.

      Season 2, Episode 9 – Aired: 12/4/2004
      Green-Eyed Mummy
      Tutenstein sends the new mammoth to the underworld because he feels jealous of how much time Cleo spends with it.

      Season 2, Episode 10 – Aired: 1/15/2005
      Queen for a Day
      Tut is kidnapped, leaving behind only his Scepter of Was.

      Season 2, Episode 11 – Aired: 10/1/2005
      Procras-Tut-Nation
      Tut want to partake in skateboarding instead of completing the sed festival,an ancient ritual, and he may lose his powers for it.

      Season 2, Episode 12 – Aired: 10/22/2005
      Bedhety Late Than Never
      Tutenstein turns up the heat in the museum which raises the bill. Professor Bedhety is sent to jail which threatens the museum with closure.

      Season 2, Episode 13 – Aired: 11/19/2005
      Walter the Brain
      Tut nearly gets Walter fired by Bedhety, and feeling guilty, he uses the Scroll of Thoth to grant Walter intelligence.

      Season 3, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/9/2006
      The Come Back Kid
      Tut casts a spell that backfires, bringing a T-rex skeleton back to life.

      Season 3, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/12/2006
      Rest in Pieces
      Tut decides to divide himself up into several pieces just for fun. Cleo and Luxor go on a scavenger hunt to find the missing parts and reassemble their friend.

      Season 3, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/13/2006
      Irresistibly You
      Cleo seeks Tut's advice regarding her crush on Jake.

      Season 3, Episode 4 – Aired: 9/14/2006
      Sleepless in Sarcophagus
      Tut gets a pet snake hoping it will help him sleep better. A demon snake-god possesses the pet and tries to take control of Tut.

      Season 3, Episode 5 – Aired: 9/16/2006
      The Truth Hurts
      After Tut insults some ancient Egyptian gods, they take away his powers.

      Season 3, Episode 6 – Aired: 9/23/2006
      Was Not Was
      After Tut misplaces the Scepter of Was, Walter finds it but thinks its a toy.

      Season 3, Episode 7 – Aired: 10/14/2006
      Tut the Defender
      Tut underestimates the difficulty of combat when he brings two statues of Viking warriors to life so he can battle them.

      Season 3, Episode 8 – Aired: 10/28/2006
      Spells and Sleepovers
      Tut disguises himself as a girl to crash Cleo's girl-only slumber party.

      Season 3, Episode 9 – Aired: 10/29/2006
      Fearless
      Tut gets more than he bargained for when he performs dangerous tasks to prove he's fearless. He descends into the Underworld.

      Season 3, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/25/2006
      UnPharaoh
      Cleo tries to prove that Tut is indeed a pharaoh after someone disputes his title.

      Season 3, Episode 11 – Aired: 12/2/2006
      Into the Past
      After Tut returns to ancient Egypt through a magic mirror, things are different from what he remembered. Cleo searches for her missing father.

      Season 3, Episode 12 – Aired: 12/9/2006
      Tut's Little Problem
      Tut's spell to make himself bigger and taller backfires.

      Season 3, Episode 13 – Aired: 1/13/2007
      Keep Your Wandering Eye to Yourself
      Tutenstein decides to spy on Cleo when he becomes jealous of her life outside the museum.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21403019/PtahHotep

This can be read on line or downloaded by Scribd members. 

http://www.cafepress.com/houseofthoth.413797238

This book is letter sized and ring bound, for easy xeroxing of favorite pages, and easy removal of first page.  The price is only marked up a few cents to $8.88 to look a bit more cool, and to make ordering the hard copy less trouble than printing from PDF. 

In a Lodge, we apply wisdom to the values, accomplishments, and aspirations of our Tribe.  At a Temple, we celebrate the beauty, power, and mercy of the Divine.  I believe that this distinction is an important one to make, in order to better discover how lodges and temples may work together.  A sense of belonging based on shared problems has served tribes for a long time.  But, the gods are sources of solutions, and I think more could be done to develop the kind of respect it takes for humans to gain better access to the expertise of the nTrw. 

Votaries and shamans don't necessarily have to get overly involved with one another in order to share useful sacred artistic ideas and social engineering information.  They have communion with deities and adepts on the inner planes.  But, I do believe that artists who hold Kemetic beliefs should develop ways to better communicate with one another in the physical world that make good use of the computers, yet also look to grow beyond the internet to create new sacred times and spaces. 

I wish the temples and lodges of the Egyptian gods and followers to have their fullest flowering, yet.  So, I believe that a guild of Kemetic artisans would be an essential resource.  If we don't have a lot of craftsmen right now who think that this idea is a good one, what we can do is to become more aware of what temple furnishings the ancestors possessed, as well as which are available, today.  Then, we can envision the best possible future for the chapels we might aspire to construct. 

Tonight, I turned on the television to encounter a scene where two research scientists offered some homemade vodka to a swarthy colleague who declined the offer.  When pressed, he said that he didn't drink alcohol.  When pressed again, he said that there was no conflict between (a very musically intoned) "uhhhluhhh" and science, as if a name of a god were something one should chant while covering his ears to inconvenient ideas.  It seems kinda obstinate, but there is another dimension:  For the sake of God,  whoever he is, Sufis practice chivalry and propagate the idea that all religions are true.  Oh, well, Quentin Crisp said that the lie is the building block of all good manners. 

My mistake in criticizing other religions is that I sometimes don't keep reverence when I do it, the way a truly professional pagan priest does.  Lord Shiva said that someone involved in true religion doesn't indulge in this, but pursues the truth in small, private groups who study, practice ritual, meditate, and discuss their discoveries.  Now, I think comedians like Pat Condell do important work, but he criticizes all religions, whereas I claim to be religious, yet succumb to the temptation to sneer at what I regard as less than first rate.  Even when cornered, Zen masters don't do that.  And, the _Tao Te Ching_ warns against talking up superior things, as it eventually results in yet another perception warp. 

In the movie, _Young Sherlock Holmes_, the hero has a psychotropically induced experience where he relives the guilt of deducing and revealing that his dad had been cheating on his mom, and his dad says that no good purpose was served by the disclosure.  It does seem that most people would prefer to live like tulips in a window box, not questioning their own inherited beliefs.  And, when someone comes along who has a different view, he has to state it either with rage or with laughter if he doesn't want to draw too much serious attention and resentment.  Americans nominally enjoy free expression, but it then perplexes me how we ended up playing the zombie video game, _President Evil_, for eight years. 

It has been really scary to encounter people I thought at first seemed very intelligent, but fairly soon came to discover that they have beliefs that I can't explain except by the existence of some sort of mind virus.  The more materialistic a person is, the more decognitive the beliefs they manage to hold, or that manage to hold them.  So, as someone who wishes to practice compassion and do the work of a clergyman, there really should be a limit on how smug I should get while pointing out the disadvantages of fundamentalist Abrahamism in public.  Deep superficiality sounds like an oxymoron, but it is out there, and it surfs on hostility, intellectual jealousy, and wedge issues. 

I don't think that real, connected-with-antiquity paganism is a belief system the way some religious role playing games seem to be, so that is why I don't capitalize the spelling.  I do think that a good pagan can afford to be more self honest than a monotheist can, and doesn't need to hold as many non-existential views in order to keep his tribe happy or complacently content with him.  And, although it is the age of free information, I find that the more I exercise my freedom of speech without careful courtesy or humor, the more threatened becomes my freedom of action.  Happily, most academic pagans talk over the heads of those who would be offended. 

But, all we have to do to understand how this can work well is look at the character of Albus Dumbledore.  There is a parallel between the philosophical occultist and the stage magician, as most people almost always think within their assumptions, and smart people have to learn to work safely with that phenomenon.  People who have psychic and mental gifts are naturally attracted to pagan ways.  But, we are still outnumbered.  So, while I do think that it is important for pagans to understand every possible point about how the scientific method is the better way to go than to succumb to doctrine-driven superstitions and political axioms, we all have monotheist friends whose feelings we don't wish to hurt.  And, most of us still have friends and family we would prefer not to have threatened by fanatics who are infuriated by ideas that make coherent, truly spiritual sense. 

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Hi;

In my quest for insights into Egyptian art and literature, I'm often on the lookout for websites that point to collections fascicles with hieroglyphic texts.  But, I've noticed that a lot of these sites have links to pages that are no longer active, owing to the time constraints of the scholars who posted them. 

I recently discovered Ning.Com, where the creator of Netscape pulled together several networking tools into an arrangement where one may have forums, web logs, chat rooms, photo collections, etc. at a central address.  I thought that those language students who have an interest in Egypt-related comparative anthropology and Art History might benefit from handy texts in the original language, and this resource might help with such a focus. 

So, I put up a forum where each link to a site with hieroglyphic tomes can appear under its own topic.  When a link changes, it would be very easy to correct this information, because visitors may note on the thread where URL needs modification.  In this way, beginners could help broaden easy access to pertinent e-publications.  The gist of this simple project is to get a quick view of the best PDF libraries and keep the links up to date: 

http://houseofthoth.ning.com

If anyone thinks this idea useful, please pay a visit.  And, if time permits, offer constructive criticism or suggestions, either via e-mail or the forum.  I would especially encourage those who are interested in digging up pertinent information about the ancient institution of the House of Life, and having a look at the traditional values, beliefs, and knowledge of the literate Egyptians. 

While the list might supply an effective way to keep an updated list of pristinely academic links, the blogs could let sufficiently interested folk explore other topics like comparative anthropology, Classical works pertinent to Egypt, and things like Hermetic Philosophy or artistic and poetic concerns that (at their best) rely on primary sources. 

Best wishes,

Bob 

Okay, here's the deal as I see it--old school vs new school egyptology:  Ironically, old school egyptology is always peppered with eurocentric disclaimers, whereas the new school egyptology (in its more intellectually responsible way) entertains the notion that the concepts Egyptians found real and useful should be regarded in a respectful sort of way.  Otherwise, even translating a word from Egyptian into English becomes a prejudice-serving distortion and a miscarriage of responsible scholarship. 

Unfortunately, there is on the horizon a post modern school of egyptology, a sort of ambitious middle class of professional scholar who want to set aside the mannerly mystique of the old and new schools as inconvenient, and who seem to want to take the fun out of it all by making it about personality and status instead of scholarship.  Unfortunately, an expanding casual interest in modern practice of AE religion seems partly to blame for this phenomenon.  Fortunately, nobody in this school yet has a PhD. 

I think that one of my mentors, an ordained priest of Thoth, had the right idea:  instead of trying to reconcile the various cults and theologies from Native Egyptian Religion, modern student-practitioners do well to specialize in the school and accomplishments of their own affinity-resonant archetype and His/Her high traditions and priesthoods.  Really, my preoccupation in life is to try to describe a means whereby we can make the old cults once again both fun and sustainable.   

It is possible to have a magick-affirmative tradition like Wicca or Hermetism.  But, the craft of the witch, wizard, and shaman is just that.  If we allow the premise that witchcraft is a religion, then our subsequent analyses will be fuzzy.  Religion encourages people to clump together on the back of shared problems and to take of uncalculated risks based on untested notions.  Magick encourages people to share knowledge of observable effects, and discourages unmeasured wagering.  Taking them as a crisp example, what real, clear, Satanists of good character try to do is to adopt the aesthetic and social advantages of mythology, and to dispense with the unscientific stuff.  But, this is a science based on experience, rather than on sentimental notions of what constitutes respectable, socially responsible Science. 

"A flute on the floor is a flute no more!"

"Oh, for the love of Priapus!" 

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