Celebrating Your God(s) Options

Okay I just recently learned that my patron god was Hermes/Thoth. When i say learned, I discovered it by myself through extraordinary coincidences that coincided with his realm and background. I was looking for some holidays that I could celebrate to pay tribute to him. Personally, I have yet to figure out how to celebrate these holidays let alone how I am going to do them.

So here is this topic about how everyone celebrates their God(s)/Goddess(es).

Experiences shared here please. =3

Okay I just recently learned that my patron god was Hermes/Thoth. When i say learned, I discovered it by myself through extraordinary coincidences that coincided with his realm and background. I was looking for some holidays that I could celebrate to pay tribute to him. Personally, I have yet to figure out how to celebrate these holidays let alone how I am going to do them.

So here is this topic about how everyone celebrates their God(s)/Goddess(es).

Experiences shared here please. =3

Well me personally, I just constantly thank them for what they do for me and ask them if I can return the favor. I also share my expierences with them to my friends and hint that they could probably do the same for them. Usually Ill get a feeling when they want to talk to me, but its usually with advice. The way I see it, if they help me succeed then they succeed because I will be an example of their power (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rule.gif)

Oh, the gods that I work with are Isis,Osiris,Anubis and Ra...however I dont follow the traditional Egyptian heirarchy, to me Anubis and Isis are my father/mother figure and Osiris and Ra are my gaurdians...works quite well

This post has been edited by BloodArchon: Dec 4 2006, 05:51 PM

Oh! So you really don't have to go through a festival in honoring your gods or learn painstakingly difficult rituals?
I know I'm a bad pagan but give me a break I only just started. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/angel.gif)

I will try talking to Hermes through my Thoth tarot deck since Thoth was assimmilated by Hermes. =3

I regularly celebrate my patron although we don't know anymore what was his festival date. We know that Goibniu had a special day though. Also I don't happen to be able to speak ancient Gaelic so am unable to do a ritual that is the same as during pre-Christian times. But he doesn't seem to mind. I do think that it is a good idea to get off your backside and do regular rituals though. There are too many armchair pagans around IMHO.

look for links in world - especially here in the west where the christian (which is nothing but ancient egyptian in disguize) - as in hours=horus - maybe something to do with the law or scales (weighing truth against a feather)

i think it really means far more for you to think of something special to honor your god (or goddess), inform them of your intent, let them pick the day and you pick the event or throw the party or whatever - like a kid doing something really sweet for their mom or dad - just you and them - great stuff

Okay I just recently learned that my patron god was Hermes/Thoth. When i say learned, I discovered it by myself through extraordinary coincidences that coincided with his realm and background. I was looking for some holidays that I could celebrate to pay tribute to him. Personally, I have yet to figure out how to celebrate these holidays let alone how I am going to do them.

So here is this topic about how everyone celebrates their God(s)/Goddess(es).

Experiences shared here please. =3

Greetings Kariston,

There is no shame in new beginnings, actually we all had to start our journey with a first step. In regards to certain celebrations of Ancient Egyptian Rituals and Rites, I would like to share something with you that may be instructional in your search for Egyptian Rituals and Rites. Do not feel that this is trying to convert you to any particular belief system, for truly the only one that can determine what path to follow, is the person walking it.

The major texts from Egyptian Papyri that describe in detail some of the Rites practices in the 18th to 20th Dynasties come from what is known as the "Papyris of Ani." These Papyri have been translated after the finding of the Rosetta Stone by British Archaeologists in Egypt. With the Rosetta Stone the Archaeologists were able to decipher the true meaning of Heiroglyphics. The most indepth book I have found with the Heiroglyphic, Coptic and English Translations is "The Egyptian Book of The Dead" translated by E.A. Wallis Budge. This book describes many Rituals and Rites of the passage of the Soul into the Hall of The Gods of Amenti.

The Neophyte Ritual in the Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn follows after the 125th Chapter recitals of "The Egyptian Book of The Dead," also the weigheing of the Heart by Ma'at, or the Goddess of Truth which weighs the Heart of the deceased with the Feather of Truth in the balances. This occurs in the Hall of Judgement, from, whence when a Soul gains passage enters into the presence of the 42 lesser Deities who when in their presence the Soul recites a confession, called the "42 Negative Confessions" describing the absence of certain actions from their lives which will elevate them into being accepted into Amenti, or the Fields of Osiris.

One place a Modern Form of this Ritual can be located is in the book "Self Initiation Into The Golden Dawn Tradition," by Chic and Sandra Tabatha Cicero. Also for an Online version that resembles this Ancient Egyptian Ritual you may type in your search engine the words: " Ritual Aleph" this Ritual is adapted to the Ordo Templi Orientis Rituals and was written by Bill Heidrick.

It is a very worthwhile study to learn of some of the Ancient Rites, and I also applaud your use of the Crowley Thoth Deck in order to connect the God Thoth which is also known in later times in Greek as the Thrice Great Hermes Trismegustus, with the discovery of your Path.

Respectfully,
Helel (Joseph)

This post has been edited by Joseph: Dec 9 2006, 09:38 PM

Thanks everyone! It's been a real help talking with all of you.

During one of my meditations I happened to meditate on the Magus my favorite card ruled by Mercury which is the Roman name for him and wah lah. A very very short and introductory conversation. After which I was brought out of it by an obtrusive knocking at my door. -_-' Not the most serene thing ever, but at least I was able to talk to him. I burnt a candle for him yesterday in appreciation for his visit.

I've actually been meaning to take a look at that book Joesph. It seemed interesting, but I didn't know it contained rituals in it. I thought it was just to insure the person's passage into the next realm safely.

Esoterica. That's a great idea actually. I actually never looked at the word hour in relation to Horus. Looks like I found another thing to get me through my lecture classes.

-Kariston