Book Question?

starsandepithets:

desert-witchcraft:

Is “Cricle of the Sun” by Sharon LaBorde any good, while I try to stay away from the “Kemetic” side of YouTube, but I watch her videos often. I was considering buying her book.

I really like Circle of the Sun and think it’s a good book – and works very well with her other book Following the Sun.

Circle of the Sun is a good introduction to Kemetism and reconstructionism. But it also acknowledges other Egyptian pagan groups, like Tameran Wiccan, And makes allowances for them. In parts it can be simplistic, but that’s what makes it a good foundation text, it treats every subject as if you come to them with no prior knowledge.

The bits of the book I find most useful as the chapters on Personal Pratice, Heka and Hymns to the nTrw. There is a really great example of an Iru – basic offering ritual – that I still use a modified form of today for nearly all of my rituals. The hymns are really great because they are also written out phenotically so they are easy to read out without too much pratice – and there is a small section on how to adapt hymns for you own pratice which is really useful. The bits on how to build a community are not overly useful to me, and the introduction is also now a little outdated, being written in 2012. And there is a lot a fair bit of dodgy spelling of Egyptian words in parts of the book.

I might be quite nostalgic about this book as it was my first kemetic text, but I still really like it and refer back to it often. I wouldn’t recommend it necessarily to read it cover to cover book, but rather as a good resource to have.

Edit – I forgot to say that if you like her videos, the book is written in a similar style.