divinity

    The courts often consider the nature of divinity in determining if a religion is legally valid.

legal standards

    “(1) a belief, not necessarily referring to supernatural powers;” —Fellowship of Humanity v. County of Alameda

    “Adherents to many religions believe that there is another dimension, place, mode, or temporality, and they often believe that these places are inhabited by spirits, souls, forces, deities, and other sorts of inchoate or intangible entities.” —United States of America v David Meyers

Kemetic or ancient Egyptian religion

    The English word “nature” comes from the Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) word “Ntr”.

Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) hieroglyph for Ntr

    Ntr is the Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) name for the Divine. The neteru is the ancient Egyptian name for the ancient Egyptian Deities and Goddesses.

    Ntr is written in Roman letters as Ntr, Ntr, Neter, Netjer, or Netcher. The underlined t represents the sound tch (or tj).

    Ntr is the world’s first written word for the Divine or Supreme Goddess.

    The word “deity” is indicated by adding the determinative for male deity to the hieroglyph Ntr. The word “Goddess” is indicated by adding the determinative for female goddess to the hieroglyph Ntr.

    The native word for hieroglyphs was Medu Ntr, which literally meant “Divine writing”. The English word “hieroglyph” comes from Greek, which literally meant “sacred writing”.

    It was called Divine writing because it was created by Goddess Seshat and provided to humans by Djehuti (Thoth) and Aset (Isis). These are divine acts. Divine acts require the existince of the Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) divine. This is “supernatural power” in action.

    The Medu Ntr (hieroglyph) for Ntr looks like a flag because in the pre-dynastic period roadside shirnes were marked with long pennant flags on a very tall flagpole.

    These shrines for the divine were typically located at reliable water. The tall divine flags, visible for long distances, were markers for divine waters. Thankful and worshipful travellers left offerings at the shrines.

    As the North African Great lakes dried up and turned into the Sahara Desert, refugees worshiped and thanked the Kemetic (ancient Egytian) Divine at the water Goddess shrines marked by the written character for Supreme Goddess..

    Particularly divine was Hapi (the Nile River), the only river divinely powerful enough to continue to flow across the Sahara Desert. Hapi (the Nile River is the most divine waters in the entire world as well as the longest river in the world.

    The Puat Neteru are the company of the divine or the ancient Egyptian pantheon.

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