About Wedjbai

Ii-em hotep (welcome, in peace)

I’m  a shemshet-ankh in the House of Netjer.

I took the Kemetic Orthodox beginner’s class in late 2001, and had my divination by the Nisut (ankh udja seneb) on March 26, 2002. My original divination was sat Aset-Serqet, meryt Hethert-Sekhmet, Wesir, her Yinepu-Wepwawet (daughter of Isis and beloved of Hathor, Osiris, and Anubis.) Later on, I found that I had two more Beloveds: Nut, and most recently Nebthet-Nit-Seshat (Nephthys).

In May 2002 I was named, which marks a rite of passage as a shemset in the Kemetic Orthodox faith. My shemset name is Asetwedjbai, and my nickname is Wedjbai. They are pronounced: AH-set-WEDGE-bye and WEDGE-bye

Prior to converting to Kemetic Orthodoxy, I had explored varying flavours of paganism, and Isis Worship. I must admit that my first forays into paganism were very quite fluffy, but as I grew up and found better sources my ideas and beliefs began to change.

I have always been drawn to Egyptian mythology. I can remember reading everything I could get my hands on about ancient Egypt from grade three and beyond. After a certain point of worshiping on my own I began to want a structured environment and community. I began searching for something that would fulfill this.

Everything started to point me to Kemetic Orthodoxy, but I resisted because it wasn’t what I was doing, and I was very leery of the whole Nisut concept. I eventually stumbled onto Kai Imakhu Sesha’s site about his Mother which made me think that maybe KO was what I was looking for. I joined the House of Netjer forums and later on the beginner’s class.

I traveled to Tawy House in the first week of November 2005 for the first ever Coronation Retreat to finally meet some of the most important people in my spiritual journey. It was then that I took the Weshem-ib (Ritual of Testing the Heart) and took vows as a shemset-ankh.

Many of my experiences are intensely private, but I think that opening up a little about some of them may help me understand a little more what’s going on. I’m a skeptical person by nature, and the “scientific” side of me does wrestle with the “spiritual” side, but I really do believe that they are not mutually exclusive.

Senebty (good health to you), Wedjbai