Kemetic Orthodoxy is a modern reconstructionist religious movement centered on ancient Egyptian deities, and this is Tamara L. Siuda's own account of the tradition's faith and practice, written by the movement's founding Nisut, its head, and published by the House of Netjer, the organization she founded. As the tradition's own primary statement of its own doctrine and practice, it is the correct and only real source for what Kemetic Orthodoxy itself teaches and does, in its own words, and the atlas treats it at that standing rather than as independent scholarship. Its limit is exactly that origin, it is a modern movement's own self description, not a scholarly source on ancient Egyptian religion, which this tradition draws on and reinterprets rather than simply continues, so a claim about ancient Egyptian religious practice itself needs an Egyptological source such as Jan Assmann's work alongside this one.
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Tamara Siuda's own account of Kemetic Orthodoxy, a modern reconstructionist Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) religious tradition she founded in 1988, written by the tradition's own founding Nisut (head) and published through the tradition's own house. It reads as the tradition's own statement of its doctrine and practice, which is why it carries custodian standing, but custodian standing alone does not earn tier one: this corpus's tier one custodian sources, the Code of Canon Law, Quaker Faith and Practice, the Nicene Creed and the Latter-day Saints' General Handbook, are governing bodies' definitional or administrative texts produced by a standing institutional process across generations, separate from any one living founder. This book is a still-living sole founder's personal account of the religion she personally created, the same shape this corpus already keeps at tier three for other modern founder-led traditions' own statements of belief, the Hellenic Ethnic Religion's statement of principles being the closest parallel. Authoritative for what Kemetic Orthodoxy says about itself; not independent evidence about ancient Egyptian religion, which needs an Egyptological source such as Assmann's Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt. NotesTamara Siuda's account of Kemetic Orthodoxy, a modern reconstructionist Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) religious tradition, written by its founding Nisut (head). Use as the tradition's own statement of its doctrine and practice; a modern reconstructionist movement's own account, not a scholarly source on ancient Egyptian religion itself, which needs an Egyptological source such as Assmann's Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt.
Custodian
Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyHouse of Netjer (Kemetic Orthodoxy)
Custodian BasisAn account of a religious body published by that body through its own house. Authoritative for what Kemetic Orthodoxy says about itself; it is not independent evidence about ancient Egyptian religion.
Citation
AuthorTamara L. Siuda
PublisherHouse of Netjer
URLhttps://www.kemet.org/about
Source TypeTradition's own account
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This source names Ancient Egyptians directly: "Kemetic Orthodoxy is a modern reconstructionist religious movement centered on ancient Egyptian deities, and this is Tamara L."
This source names Kemetic Orthodoxy directly: "Kemetic Orthodoxy is a modern reconstructionist religious movement centered on ancient Egyptian deities, and this is Tamara L."
Claims Backed By This Source (58 claims)
This source backs 58 claims across the atlas. As facts: 40 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 8 holds. Plus 9 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Doctrines, 24 claims: 13 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 5 holds, 5 general references.
- Sources, 12 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Organizations, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Religions, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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