Kemetism
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Kemetism (also Kemeticism; both from km.t, the native name of Ancient Egypt) is a term for neopagan revivals of Ancient Egyptian religion which developed in the United States from the 1970s. There are three main groups, each of which take a different approach to their beliefs, ranging from eclectic to polytheistic reconstructionist.
The Ausar Auset of Ra Un Nefer Amen is a syncretic Pan-Africanist approach targeted at the African diaspora.
Kemetic Wicca (also Tameran Wicca, from t3 mry "land of two riverbanks", another native term for "Egypt") is an eclectic approach combining Ancient Egyptian elements with Wicca, a religion based on pagan practises, which utilises witchcraft. Wicca formed in England.
Kemetic Revivalism and Reconstruction, a reconstructionist, which include academic approaches informed by Egyptology, notably Kemetic Orthodoxy of Tamara L. Siuda and Kerry Wisner's Akhet Hwt Hwr and the Kemetic Traditionalism of Levant and Heskett (2001).[citation needed]
Neo-Atenism is a neopagan revival not of Egyptian polytheism but of the heretical faith introduced under Akhenaten in the Amarna period (r. 13531336 BC)