16-17 Nisannu, Internet 45
Apr. 7th, 2015 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorka16 Nisannu: Did not get to tend altar until after we got home from running errands around 9 pm, so technically at this point it was 17 Nisannu. Had an unexpected guest, so only lit ancestor candle indoors. Lit candles on outdoor altar for Shapshu, Eshmun, & the Beloved Dead.
17 Nisannu: Changed water on altar, lit ancestor candle (desperately need to get to a candle store and find some unscented pillar candles; the skull candle is burning rather low), lit some incense labeled "Lunar" (I don't know what's in it, but I love the way it smells) for Tiamat, Lahmu, Lahamu, Anshar, and Kishar, & did very brief grounding & centering. Fixed the cloth drape on the outdoor altar, lit candles for Shapshu, Eshmun, & the Beloved Dead, and left two sticks of the donated incense (which appears to be sandalwood, amber, and possibly some unidentified floral) as an offering.
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I think from now on I will just use the somewhat archaic English word "hallows" for the Beloved Dead who are not ancestors of body or blood. And I need to start making a hallows calendar, especially for the ones who are sancti in one form or another.
17 Nisannu: Changed water on altar, lit ancestor candle (desperately need to get to a candle store and find some unscented pillar candles; the skull candle is burning rather low), lit some incense labeled "Lunar" (I don't know what's in it, but I love the way it smells) for Tiamat, Lahmu, Lahamu, Anshar, and Kishar, & did very brief grounding & centering. Fixed the cloth drape on the outdoor altar, lit candles for Shapshu, Eshmun, & the Beloved Dead, and left two sticks of the donated incense (which appears to be sandalwood, amber, and possibly some unidentified floral) as an offering.
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I think from now on I will just use the somewhat archaic English word "hallows" for the Beloved Dead who are not ancestors of body or blood. And I need to start making a hallows calendar, especially for the ones who are sancti in one form or another.
