AMNTE NOFRE - AMNTE NOFRE

(Amentet Neferet)

Newsletter n. 1

Rekh-Nedjesh/Renenutet

Phamenoth / Pharmouthi

Vamenw; /Varmou;i

CDXIV Great Year of Ra

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Cover: Thoth in His sacred form of baboon making adorations to the Goddess Tefnut represented in Her form of Lioness. Tefnut wears the Solar Crown with the Uraeus, and above Her is the Goddess Nekhbet in Her sacred form of vulture with outstretched wings as a sign of protection. Scene from the Roman Chapel of the Temple of Thoth at Pselkis (Pr-Slkt/Pr-Slq), Lower Kush/Nubia

faience Amulet of the Eye Goddess, the "Eye of Ra", winged and with twoUraei; from the "House of Eternity" of Queen Tabiry (wife of King Piye, ca.

743–712 bc) in the Royal Necropolis of Karoy (now called "kurru"), PyramidK53. Now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...

Foreword:

Dear readers, it is with great pleasure that we present the first

issue of our monthly newsletter dedicated to an overview of the

researches and the works completed in the month just ended, and

to the projects under preparation.

Amnte Nofre – Amnte Nofre, (Jmntt nfrt) “Amentet Neferet”

(“The Perfect and Beautiful Land of Amnte/Amentet”, the Elysion

of the Egyptian Religion) is a reconstructionist group of religious

research devoted to the Ancient Religion of Egypt, whose aim is

the study and the reconstruction of the Religious Tradition of the

Two Lands of Egypt. The sources and the foundations of our

religious reconstructionism are only and exclusively the ancient

texts, and also the studies of the modern egyptologists: in fact both

study and religious devotion are necessary to understand the sacred

knowledges of the ancients about theology, that is the religious

philosophy, and to rebuild the religious traditions, like the sacred

rituals and so on.

The eternal value and utility of the study and reconstruction of the

ancient egyptian religious traditions for the modern world, as it is

for all the ancient religions (the so called “polytheistic and pagan

religions”), is to regain that union with the Divine and with the

cosmos, that state of highest knowledge, spiritual blessing, moral

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beauty, prosperity, and happiness that comes only from the Gods

and from the devotion towards Them, as it was in the days of yore

before the arrival of the barbarian and abrahamic invasions and the

consequent destruction, ignorance, oblivion, materialism, and

misery both spiritual and economic of the contemporary age; to

return, despite the typhonic assaults of unrighteousness in all its

various forms, to that sacred path always present and at hand for

all human beings.

Horus in His form of sacred falcon standing upon the hieroglyph sign for

"gold"; behind Him is represented the Solar Orb with the Uraeus, and another

Uraeus is depicted before Him. Detail from the Double Temple of Haroeris

(Horus the Ancient) and Sobek at Ombos

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Many thanks from the heart to all those who follow our

publications and who support us, may the Gods be always in your

hearts!!!

For anyone wishing to contact us, give us advice, suggestions, ask

us questions, cooperate with us, and for further contacts and

informations:

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Renenutet- Pharmouthi (Varmou;i)

The New Moon of March (1 March 2014) opens the last month of

Pro-Prw (prt, 'peret', the Season of Growing), the eighth month of

the Religious Calendar (in the CDXIV Great Year of Ra according

to the Civil Calendar, that is the CDXIV year from the beginning

of the last Sothic Cycle in the 1599 CE).

The eighth lunar month is called 'Renenutet' (rnnwtt), pronounced

“Ermoute” (or also “Ermouthi”), sacred to the same Goddess

Renenutet-Ermoute (preserved in Greek as “Ermouthis”). Another

name used for this month during the late period of the ancient

egyptian history was pȝ-n-Rnnwtt, “that (the month) of Renenutet-

Ermoute”, pronounced “Pharmouthi” or also“Parmoute”

(preserved in Bohairic and Sahidic respectively as Varmou;i and

Parmoute, and in Greek as “Pharmouthi”).

The most important religious festivity of 'Renenutet'-Pharmouthi is

the “Feast of the Divine Birth of Horus” of the II day (2 March

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2014 ) of the month, lasting for twenty days according to the

calendar of the Temple of Hathor at Iunet.

Among the other numerous religious festivities of this month, we

remind you also:

- the “Feast of Chewing Onions for Bastet” , 4 March 2014

- the “Feast of the Appearing of Horus Panebtauy” and the “Feast

of Neith and Heka the Child” , 11 March 2014

- the “Feast of the Appearing of Sobek, and the Lord of the Two

Lands (Horus Panebtauy)” , 20 March 2014

the Goddess Ermoute-'Renenutet 'in Her sacred form of Uraeus, wearing the Solar

Crown with cow's horns and the two feathers; from the "House of Eternity" of King

Ramses III, Valley of the Kings, KV11, West Uaset (Diospolis Megale-Thebes)

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the Entrance-Gate of the Temple of Thoth at Pselkis (Pr-Slkt/Pr-Slq), Lower

Kush/Nubia

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Researches and works completed:

- “EGYPTIAN RELIGIOUS CALENDAR – Great Year of Ra

CDXIV-CDXV (2014 CE)”,

the Complete Egyptian Religious Calendar for the current year

2014 with all the religious prescriptions and the sacred festivities

for every single day of the year. Available on amazon:

(click on the image to open the link)

The Complete Egyptian Religious Calendar for the year 2014: the most

comprehensive publication of the lists of the festivities of the Egyptian

Religious Tradition (dated for the year 2014). A practical application of

the Egyptian Religious Calendar for the current age.

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The sources used to reconstruct the Religious Calendar and for the dating

of the Sacred Festivities are:

- the “Cairo Calendar n. 86637” and the “Sallier papyrus IV”;

- the list of the religious celebrations dated to the Middle Kingdom;

and the lists of the Sacred Festivals from the Temples’ Religious

Calendars:

- the religious calendar of King Thutmosis III from Ipet-Sut (the Precinct

of Amon-Ra at Uaset-Thebes);

- the Temple of King Thutmosis III at Elephantine;

- the Temple of King Ramses II at Abydos;

- the Temple of Millions of Years of King Ramses III, West Uaset;

- the Temple of Horus at Behdet (Apollinopolis Megale)

- the Temple of Hathor at Iunet (Dendera);

- the Double Temple of Haroeris and Sobek at Ombos;

- the Temple of Neith and Khnum at Iunyt/Latopolis.

INDEX:

-Introduction:

the Calendars of Ancient Egypt

the Civil Calendar

the Great Year of Ra

The Religious Calendar:

the Seasons, the Months, the Days of the Month, Favorable and Adverse

Days

-Egyptian Religious Calendar,

List of the Festivities for the year 2014, CDXIV-CDXV Great Year of

Ra

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- Iconographic researches:

“Kush/Nubia”, new album of photos (more than 100) with full

descriptions:

(click on the image to open the link)

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“Statues, Jewelry, and Amulets”, new collection of photos (more

than 100) with full descriptions:

(click on the image to open the link)

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- Hymns, prayers, and ancient texts:

A selection of religious texts shared during the previous month (the

texts are periodically added to our blog in the page dedicated to the

respective Deity, just like the images):

HYMN OF KING TAHARQA TO AMON-RA,

from the inscription of King Taharqa in the peristyle court north of

the Sixth Pylon of the Great Temple of Amon-Ra at Ipet-Sut

(Uaset, Diospolis Megale-Thebes), ca. 674 bc

"This noble God, Lord of all the Gods,

Amon-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of Two Lands, He Who presides

over Ipet-Sut,

the noble Ba (the soul) that rises in heaven,

Whose images are secret, Whose forms are numerous, Whose true

form is unknown,

He Who made the sky, Who raised it for His Ba,

He Who has marked the Two Lands with His name,

the noble power, beloved, prestigeous,

mighty in His appearances, lord of respect,

whose manifestation is mighty,

through Whose manifestations all manifestations manifest

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themselves,

great solar orb that darts forth his rays,

when He gives himself, everyone lives,

He Who crosses the heaven tirelessly early in the morning,

Whose rites endure on and on,

Great Elder, the Sovereign Who lives in Maat,

Greatest of the Great, Grandest of the Grand,

the Great One Who is greater than the other Gods,

Whose might comes as far as the extent of eternity carries,

the Elder Who was first to come into existence,

He Who siezes the Two Lands by His victory,

the Cyclical Eternity, He Who passes through eternity,

Father of Fathers, Mother of Mothers,

He Who raises Himself above the Ennead,

the Oracle Who forsees what is coming before it happens,

Whose work is to assure the cyclical eternity and the infinite

duration,

King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Amon-Ra, Lord of the Thrones

of Two Lands,

Lord of Heaven, Earth, Water, and Mountains.

Thus He says, Your son Whom You love, the Son of Ra, Taharqa,

King of Upper and Lower Egypt"

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HYMN TO MANDULIS,

hymn of the roman decurion Maximus to Mandulis (Mrwl); end of

the I century CE, from the south wall of the Pronaos of the Temple

of Mandulis at Talmis (Cfr. Burstein, Ancient African

Civilizations. Kush and Axum 66-68).

-(foreword)

'When I had come to gaze on this blessed place of peace (the

Temple of Mandulis at Talmis) and to let wander free in the air the

inspiration desired by my soul, a way of life strange to me stirred

my mind from all sides. As I could not convict myself of any evil,

my nature then urged me to cultivate mystic toil.

In my wisdom I then composed a complex song, having received

from the Gods a holy and expressive idea.

When it was clear that the Muse had accomplished something

pleasing to the Gods, I shook out my festival song, like the flower

of a green shoot on Helicon. Then a cave enticed me to enter and

sleep. (...)

He (Mandulis) charmed away the barbaric speech of the

Aithiopians and urged me to sing in sweet Greek verse. (...)

He (Mandulis) came with brilliant cheeks on the right hand of Isis,

exulting in His greatness and the glory of the Romans, and uttering

Pythian oracles like an Olympian God. (...)'

-(the Hymn)

"O rayshooting Lord Mandulis, Titan, Makareus,

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having beheld some radiant signs of Your power I pondered on

them and was busied therewith,

wishing to know with confidence whether You are the Sun God.

I made myself a stranger to all vice and all godlessness, was chaste

for a considerable period, and offered the due incense offering in

holy piety.

I had a vision and found rest for my soul. For You did grant my

prayer and show me Yourself going through the heavenly vault;

then washing Yourself in the holy water of immortality You

appeared again.

You did come at due season to Your shrine, making Your rising,

and giving to Your image and to Your shrine divine breath and

great power.

Then I knew You, Mandulis, to be the Sun, the Allseeing Master,

King of all, the Allpowerful Eternity.

O happy folk, that dwell in the city beloved by the Sun Mandulis,

even holy Talmis, which is under the sceptre of fairtressed Isis of

the countless names."

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Works in progress:

- “Book of Adorations: Hymns to Horus”: one of the most

comprehensive collection of Hymns dedicated to Horus (in english

translation) from Temples (especially from the Temple of Horus at

Behdet and from the Temple of Hathor at Iunet), sacred texts,

papyri, etc. The work of translation is still in progress, the book

should be concluded and available before the end of the year.

- the pronunciation of the Egyptian, I part: in the next month,

we will publish the first part of “the pronunciation of the

Egyptian”, an article dedicated to the reconstruction of the vowel

system of the Egyptian language. It will be available in the on-line

italian magazine “Hellenismo”, in italian language. As soon as

possible it will be translated in english and shared.

From C. Peust, “Egyptian Phonology”:

"The pronunciation rules" (as it is for example for the names of the

Gods such as 'Djehuty', 'Heka', 'Amen', 'Aset', 'Wennefer', 'Heru',

'Maat' and so on, and in fact it is the same for all the words) "are

historically derived from early conceptions about the Egyptian

sound system such as exemplified by Budge's (1920) transcription

symbols (...) . The rules are no longer being changed according to

our progressing knowledge of Ancient Egyptian phonology;

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instead all Egyptologists know that their scholarly pronunciation is

entirely conventionalized and is hardly related to the historical

pronunciation of the Egyptian"

Mandulis (mrwl)standing in a bush of lotus flowers: Mandulis (Mrwl) is represented in

His highly sacred form of human-headed Ba-bird (the 'Ba' is the soul) wearing the

Hemhemet Crown (the "Roaring One", the Triple Atef Crown); before Him is

represented a sacred Uraeus. Detail from the Facade of the Outer Vestibule, west wall,

fourth register, of the Temple of Mandulis at Talmis, Lower Kush/Nubia

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Collaborations with other religious reconstructionist and traditional associations:

- we are very pleased to present and recommend to you all the

book

"HELLENISMO 2789-2790- QUADERNO DI STUDI

2013/2014" (italian language)

of the religious association "Hellenismo" devoted to the study and

reconstruction of the Hellenic religion and the European religions,

a project in which we had the honor to collaborate.

The book is available on amazon:

(click on the image to open the link)

In this book you will find a lot of interesting and well-written

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articles (more than forty), result of a careful and devotional

religious research based only on the ancient sources, about the

Gods and religious traditions of Greece, Italy, Eastern World and

Africa, and North/north-east Europe.

"Con grande piacere ed emozione, vi informiamo che il secondo

"Quaderno di studi" di Hellenismo è ora disponibile su amazon.it!

Coloro che desiderano avere una copia cartacea di alcuni dei più

notevoli articoli apparsi sulla nostra rivista online nel corso

dell'anno, possono ordinarla qui senza problemi! Un grandissimo

ringraziamento a tutti coloro che, nel corso del tempo, hanno

collaborato, pubblicamente o meno, a tutti coloro che ci hanno

incoraggiati e ci hanno dimostrato il loro interesse ed amore per

l'eredità- attualissima- dei nostri Antenati!!! Dedichiamo questo

testo, di cuore, a tutti gli amanti della Bellezza, della Giustizia e

dell'Eusebeia!!!

INDICE:

- Introduzione

Capitolo I – Ellade:

- Meditazioni su Hecate

- Theogamia

- Lenaia

- Libagioni

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- Culto Domestico: Zeus Ktesios

- Culto domestico: Zeus Herkeios

- Culto domestico: Apollo Agyeus

- Culto domestico- Hestia

- Culto domestico: onori ai defunti

- Il canto delle Sirene

- L'Inno orfico a Meilinoe

- «Perché sei venuto nella mia terra?»

- «Paganismus redivivus»: i trovatori e la mistica del «Jòi»

Capitolo II -Roma:

- Mâ-Bellona

- «Prima fra le città, Casa degli Dei, Roma d'oro»

- Il testamento spirituale di Aconia Fabia Paolina, Gran

Sacerdotessa di Hecate

- Estratto del Calendario Religioso (Romano Ritu)

- Breve guida alla pronuncia del Latino tardo

- Bissula dagli occhi azzurri

- Antemio, l'ultimo Imperatore pagano

- Ultimi poeti «pagani» in lingua latina: Flavio Merobaude

- Massimiano Etrusco, ultimo poeta d'amore pagano della

letteratura latina classica

- La distruzione del regno dei Vandali

- La distruzione dell'Impero Persiano

Capitolo III- Oriente e Africa:

- Introduzione al Calendario Religioso Egizio

- La nascita di Iside

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- "La più Antica"

- La pronuncia della lingua sumerica

- Baal Hammon

- Dionysos-Pais. L’immagine di un Dio bambino nei mosaici

romani d’Africa

- Demetra a Cartagine. Alcune considerazione sui culti tesmoforici

nel mondo punico

- Immagini di divinità nella coroplastica funeraria di Hadrumetum.

Alcune considerazioni

- Le Signore di Cartagine. Alcune note su Tanit/Tinnit e Astarte

- La poetessa Enheduana

- Alcuni miti dionisiaci nei mosaici dell’Africa romana

Capitolo IV- Nord ed Est Europa:

- Gli Dei della Lituania

- Dei dell'Estonia

- Kalevipoeg e le tre fanciulle degli inferi

- Gli Dei della Lettonia

- «Sempre egli ha fede nelle Dee»

- Chi sono le Dee?

- Frammenti di liturgia nordica

- Gli unni, storia, lingua, dèi, contraddizioni

- Nella terra di Perum. Qualche nota sulla cultura artistica della

Russia pagana

Capitolo V- Ironiche considerazioni sul cristianesimo morente

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Suggestions:(click on the images or on the titles to open the links)

- XXV number of the on-line italian magazine “Hellenismo”

(italian language):

“Rivista Hellenismo- Anthesterion 2790”

(click on the image to open the link)

Index:

“De Mysteriis” – Culto Teurgico, III parte

Platone e gli iniziatori ai Misteri

Invide livide: Mosaici di soglia e soggetti apotropaici.

Le contese della bellezza. Commissioni artistiche e lotta politica

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nella Grecia del V a.C.

“La più Antica”

Cinzia, bella come Hecate

Massimiano Etrusco, l’ultimo poeta d’amore pagano della

letteratura latina

“Un Tempio dedicato a Minerva è stato trovato sotto il Duomo di

Milano”: qualche considerazione…

AppendiceDivinità e miti nell’Arte moderna- X parte

Appendice PDFTeologia Platonica- III Libro, capitoli 20- 28IV Libro, capitoli 1- 3; capitoli 4- 9.

- White, red and black: Bulgarian healing ritual ,

by Georgi Mishev

- Animal and Paradigm in Plato ,

by Edward Butler

- Osiris in the Fayyum ,

by Marco Zecchi

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- Ritual function and priestly narrative: the stelae of the high

priest of Osiris, Nebwawy ,

by Elizabeth Frood

- Elementi di tradizione egizia nella documentazione di Locri ,

by Giuseppina Capriotti Vittozzi

- Raising the Pole for Min in the Temple of Isis at Shanhur ,

by Marleen De Meyer

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