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My chosen Lord and Lady is the God Bennu and the Goddess Renpet. If there is any one else here that has an egyptain Lord and Lady could you give me some tips for giving appropriate offerings and the like to them? I want to do something special for them but most of the egyptian recipes I find on google and the like have items I have never seen in any store. Any thoughts?

Lotus oil is very important to the Egyptian culture, you could use a few drops of that.

I usually offer wine and depending on the preferences of the deity would depend on the flavor.

Would beer not be more appropriate for Egyptian deities? wink
Although... I swear someone warned me against offering alcohol, just in case... But I may be confusing it with something else here.

Loona, Horus and Ra are separate deities smile Horus (Heru) does have a number of aspects though eg Heru-wer and Heru-sa-Aset. Ra is the Sun God. Horus is the protector and defender. Very much a hero.

I wouldn't offer alcohol personally. There's something about it that doesn't seem appreciated when I have offered it.
I say stick to the food and drink that would have been offered during ancient egyptian time.
A list of foods can be found in Heka by David Rankine. And possibly elsewhere but I found his list most useful.



Don't feel torn. I see no reason why you can't have allegience to both pantheons. Both are open and neither seem to present the idea of "You can only worship me". (I may be wrong).
Test the waters. If you feel that the Nordic part of your path is being taken away from you when you study egypt then maybe give your studies a rest and concentrate on your Nordic studies?

I wasn';t sure because I had seen both of them refered to sa sun deities, and as the deities in charge of the pantheon.Now thats due to the synchronization between the various local cults over the ages and development of the egyptian civilization right?Was he also considered to be a "High" God? He is the sun of Isis and Osiris right? Who fights Set?

I've only offered alcohol on a few occasions, but never to any specific pantheon. The offering was to the God and Goddess of the witchcraft tradition I practice and have been developing.
Are there any modern foods you think would be acceptable?
That book is on my wish list, so good to know where I can get it.
True. The religions are quite different tough.I haven't actively done any studies in Egyptian religion aside from the little I learned during my presentation last semester in my religion class.

No worries. I've been busy with school so it's understandable.

I think it depends on which area of Egypt you draw your mythos from as the different cult areas all had different deities that were in charge. The Egyptian religion was never a single one cohesive religion. There were overlaps between the different cults and cultic mythos but in essence each center of the cult had different deities in charge. That is at least what I gathered from the research I did last semester.

The first Egyptian deity I ever knew about was Ra. Then I learned about the other deities. Though I still don't know much about the deities. My time researching the religion last semester was spent more on the beliefs and development/history of the religion rather than the deities. I need to spend more time learning about the deities.

High God in this case means the one worshiped above all others, or the one that is given the most importance which again I think would depend on which cultic mythos you draw from.

I don't really know anything about that myth set to be completly honest. I've never actually read any Egyptian Mythology... sweatdrop

They seemed to. So thats good.

Food as an offering is something I have never done to be honest. I don't really know how I would offer food.

Yeah. Typically thats how it is. I had more books available for me to work through than I had time for last semester.

I'd like to build a relationship with Anpu but I think I want to do a good deal of research first and I haven't done any yet really. Offered him some coffee beans once but I'm not sure if they were accepted.