Per Ankh

There are different groups that fall into what is considered the Kemetic religion. We refer to our particular faith tradition as the traditional religion of Ancient Egypt. The Per Ankh sisterhood of temples and its web sites reflect this faith tradition. There are different views of what exactly is the Kemetic religion. The following is from the understanding of the Per Ankh temple.

The Kemetic Religion

As the Ancient Egyptian religion is one of the traditional religions of Africa. we share with these great faiths the style and approach to religious experience, rituals, and life.

However, as the historical continuity with our ancestors has been broken, we share with reconstructionist religions in utilizing scholarly methods to re-create the structures, rites, and practices; our aim is to literally preserve rituals as fully as possible.

While trying to keep our religion as closely to the religion of Ancient Egypt, we use methods of religious studies, philosophy, and theology to apply what we have learned to contemporary times.

At the same time, we are a living religion that recognizes that growth and change is a part of healthy religious evolution. Such questions are taken seriously and discerned by the priesthood of individual temples, which, like the temples of Ancient times, might come to differing conclusions.

Like other indigenous faiths, we are a practical faith, more concerned with ritual, relationship to Netjeru, and ethical practice than the manner in which individuals might try to describe the mystery of the divine.

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