Reconciling with differences in the natural environment
Hi everyone, I've been researching and practicing kemeticism in varying intensities for a handful of years now. It's recently come back to the surface again and this time I'd like to focus on making it a reasonable part of my day to day life (and not just researching until I overwhelm myself).
Anyways, I have always been strongly drawn to nature. It's what drew me to pagan faiths in the first place. When I was younger I looked into different nature-based religions and practices and tried to find what sat the best with me. Once I opened myself up to new possibilities a while after following my mom out of the Mormon church I grew up in, for a lack of better terms, I feel like I was immediately "claimed" by Bast. I fought myself with it for years, not ready for the idea of gods yet, but She never left me. I couldn't ever fully leave Her. I would go into Kemeticism as a whole, back out and think maybe just Kemetic based witchcraft, maybe just Her squeezed into another nature-based faith or craft, and go in circles.
This is all just background to say all of Kemeticism has grown on me and I have found different ways of interpretation that align with my own worldviews without totally distorting what Kemeticism is, but one of the things I still grapple with is the difference in natural environments. I think, how can I follow gods and beliefs that are from a completely different natural cycle? I sometimes look at the animals and plants that are around me and think, "these aren't represented by the pantheon I follow". The calendar feels useless to me, being largely based on the flow of the Nile if I remember correctly.
So I wanted to ask, how do you reconcile with this? How do you still find the gods in your own different nature? Bast is easy to see, it's some of the others and the lack of representation of my nature that bothers me. But no other pantheon speaks to me like the Kemetic one does.
Posted Sep 1, 2026, 4:43 PM UTC