The Wicca Book of Days for August 12
Aset Webenut
The great Egyptian Goddess Isis (who was also known as Aset the Bright) 
was honored on August 12 thousands of years ago by means of a festival of lights called the Aset Webenut, or, in Greek, the Lychnapsia. The Lychnapsia commemorated Isis’s frantic search for the body of her husband Osiris, whom their brother Set had murdered and cast into the Nile, as she roamed the earth holding aloft a flaming torch in an attempt to see in the pitch darkness. Thus torchlight lit up the night as devotees re-enacted her search and a boat bearing her likeness was paraded through the streets.
The Allusive Ankh
Fill your home with candlelight tonight as you recall the story of Isis and Osiris. You may also wish to wear or carry an amulet in the form of an ankh, the ancient Egyptian symbol of immortality that combines the oval that signifies Isis and the T-cross that represents Osiris.
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