Kemetism

Private altar of a practitioner in the Czech Republic, with a statue representing Thoth featured prominently.

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Kemetism (also Kemeticism, both from Egyptian kmt or Kemet, the native name of Ancient Egypt), also sometimes referred to as Neterism (from ntr (Coptic noute) "deity") or Egyptian Neopaganism, is the contemporary revival of Ancient Egyptian religion and related expressions of religion in classical and late antiquity, emerging during the 1970s. Followers typically call themselves Kemetic(s).

There are several main groups, each of which take a different approach to their beliefs, ranging from eclectic to reconstructionistic. They include, but are not limited to: reconstructed Egyptian polytheism (adopting an academic and philological approach), Kemetic Orthodoxy^[1] (which adopts some elements of reconstructionism, but has a non-traditional henotheistic theology) and Neo-Atenism. Tameran Wicca incorporates elements of Wicca.

In popular culture

In the Squidbillies episode "Taint Misbehavin", the character Dan Halen converts to Kemetism upon learning he has terminal cancer.

See also

• Neopaganism
• Polytheistic reconstructionism
• Ancient Egyptian religion
• Hermeticism
• List of Modern pagan movements

Notes

References

• Marilyn C. Krogh; Brooke Ashley Pillifant, Kemetic Orthodoxy: Ancient Egyptian Religion on the Internet: A Research Note, Sociology of Religion (2004).
• Ellen Cannon Reed, Circle of Isis: Ancient Egyptian Magic for Modern Witches (2002), ISBN 978-1-56414-568-0.
• J. G. Melton, Encyclopedia of American Religions, 5th ed., Detroit (1996).

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