NOTE: I arrived late, so hopefully someone will provide better notes
- Discussing the importance of the heka (power of the spoken word)
- Importance of the "Opening of the Mouth" ritual
- Speaks to the Ka of the person who is not deceased, where the Ka is the person's spiritual double; the Ka moves, speaks, and eats
- Family would set aside a place where the Ka would come to visit
- The ritual was only reserved for persons of the highest class, does this suggests that "lay persons" were ignored or less important?
- Priests were available to all, and several levels of priests
- Blood ritual and sacrifice
- What is the role/replacement for blood in ritual
- Discussed the practical aspect of so called animal sacrifice; food shared amongst the community
- What is the significance of wearing in ankh or symbol
- Often the symbol have been blessed; perhaps it serves as a reminder
- To wear in ankh provides protection
- Wearing an ankh is not heka - what makes it powerful? What has been said over it; what you believe, what you associate with it - the possibility that the power can be infused within the symbol
- When we talk about the power of Heka, Talking about altars , Altars are places where we think a sacred places abides,
- For each of us we need to find something that will allow us authentically connect with spirit
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