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Kemetic Reconstructionism
Kemetism (also Kemeticism or Kemetic paganism; sometimes referred to as Neterism from wikt:nṯr, netjer "god") is a Modern paganism, neopagan religion and revival of the ancient Egyptian religion, emerging during the 1970s. A ''Kemetic'' is one who follows Kemetism. There are several main groups, each of which takes a different approach to its beliefs, ranging from eclecticism, eclectic to polytheistic reconstructionist, reconstructionist. These can be divided into three types: reconstructed Kemetism, a Syncretism, syncretic approach, and the more monotheistic Kemetic Orthodoxy. Etymology The movement's name is based on an Endonym and exonym, endonym of Ancient Egypt, Egypt, ''Egypt#Names, Kemet'' (the Egyptological pronunciation, conventional vocalization of Egyptian hieroglyphic, hieroglyphic notation ''km.t''). The word is also sometimes written as Takemet, from the fuller ''tꜣ km.t.'' In translation from Egyptian language, Egyptian, it means "black" (or in longer form ...
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