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A Kemetic Style Handfasting?
« on: May 10, 2012, 12:01:35 am »
Hello everyone, I'm getting married!
Well, handfasted. =)
I know that handfasting is traditionally a more Celtic/Wiccan themed ceremony, but we are just using the basic idea to marry each other in our spiritual preference.
I've done a bit of research, and haven't found anything really useful pertaining to a Kemetic Handfasting Ceremony.

Do you guys have any ideas or information you'd like to share? It would be greatly appreciated. =) Thank you!
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Re: A Kemetic Style Handfasting?
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2012, 12:27:02 am »
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Hello everyone, I'm getting married!
Well, handfasted. =)
I know that handfasting is traditionally a more Celtic/Wiccan themed ceremony, but we are just using the basic idea to marry each other in our spiritual preference.
I've done a bit of research, and haven't found anything really useful pertaining to a Kemetic Handfasting Ceremony.

Do you guys have any ideas or information you'd like to share? It would be greatly appreciated. =) Thank you!


For the ancient Egyptians marriage wasn't a religious event.  It was a legal one.  

iirc, Montu was a god to call upon for oaths.  

You could make offerings to Hethert/Hetharu as the goddess of love and motherhood and/or the gods that you feel closest to before or during or even after the wedding.
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Re: A Kemetic Style Handfasting?
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2012, 11:08:30 am »
Quote from: Nuri;53803
Hello everyone, I'm getting married!
Well, handfasted. =)
I know that handfasting is traditionally a more Celtic/Wiccan themed ceremony, but we are just using the basic idea to marry each other in our spiritual preference.
I've done a bit of research, and haven't found anything really useful pertaining to a Kemetic Handfasting Ceremony.

Do you guys have any ideas or information you'd like to share? It would be greatly appreciated. =) Thank you!

 
That's probably because there wasn't an official wedding ceremony in AE. If you were rich enough to worry about money, you might draw up documents and all of that- have them signed, etc. But that's about it. More of the common folks just moved in together, and their family had a party. There isn't much information beyond that.

You could always try to create something that is meaningful for both of you using Egyptian mythologies or deities, but AFAIK, there is no ceremony from antiquity.

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Re: A Kemetic Style Handfasting?
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2012, 11:12:09 am »
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As SatAset noted, the reason you're not finding information about Egyptian-style religious marriages is that they didn't exist.

So my questions to you are:

What in particular are you wanting to do, spiritually, with this ritual?
What would facilitate that for you?
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Re: A Kemetic Style Handfasting?
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2012, 08:38:13 pm »
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For the ancient Egyptians marriage wasn't a religious event.  It was a legal one.  

iirc, Montu was a god to call upon for oaths.  

You could make offerings to Hethert/Hetharu as the goddess of love and motherhood and/or the gods that you feel closest to before or during or even after the wedding.


There's the female side of a marriage contract: Papyrus Libbey.

I'd say make up your own, or ask one or more people to help you once you've thought what you want. Many of the Netjeru are 'married' or have a consort-type relationship. I might not go with Isis/Osiris because of the connected mythology. Maybe. However, there's:

Horus/Hathor, Ptah/Sekhmet or Ptah/Bast, Khonsu and Satis, Neith, or Heqet. Even Min/Iabet. etc, etc, etc.

You might consider basing something on one of those pairs.
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Re: A Kemetic Style Handfasting?
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2012, 10:05:37 pm »
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There's the female side of a marriage contract: Papyrus Libbey.

I'd say make up your own, or ask one or more people to help you once you've thought what you want. Many of the Netjeru are 'married' or have a consort-type relationship. I might not go with Isis/Osiris because of the connected mythology. Maybe. However, there's:

Horus/Hathor, Ptah/Sekhmet or Ptah/Bast, Khonsu and Satis, Neith, or Heqet. Even Min/Iabet. etc, etc, etc.

You might consider basing something on one of those pairs.


I found it fairly funny when I first found out that Ancient Egyptians didn't have weddings like we do today. Now whenever I hear right-wing Christians saying that marriage has always been a religious institution I say "Nuh-uh! Egyptians didn't have that!":p

In our modern case, my advice would be to ask for a deity you feel close to bless your union. Another good idea, Helmsman said, to get some inspiration from the couples he listed. The Egyptians had a festival that celebrated Horus's and Hathor's reunion.

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Re: A Kemetic Style Handfasting?
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2012, 07:50:28 am »
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I found it fairly funny when I first found out that Ancient Egyptians didn't have weddings like we do today. Now whenever I hear right-wing Christians saying that marriage has always been a religious institution I say "Nuh-uh! Egyptians didn't have that!":p

 
There's a cute thing going around on facebook that says something like "The fact that you can't trade your daughter for three goats means we've already redefined marriage."
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Re: A Kemetic Style Handfasting?
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2012, 10:07:19 pm »
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There's a cute thing going around on facebook that says something like "The fact that you can't trade your daughter for three goats means we've already redefined marriage."

 
XD I'm going to have to find that and share it with my friends!

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