History and demographics[edit] Further information: Neopaganism in the United States Kemetism appeared in the 1970s with the rise of Neopaganism in the United States. The Church of the Eternal Source was founded in 1970; and the Ausar Auset Society, promoting pan-African and afrocentric approaches to Kemetism, was founded in 1973; Tamara Siudas Kemetic Orthodoxy followed in the late 1980s. By the mid 2000s (decade), there have also been Kemetic movements outside the USA, with Ta Noutri arising in Podensac, France, in 2004; and Kamitik in Aulnay, France, since 2004. The black supremacist group in Paris, Tribu Ka, was described as having Kemetic views. Tameran Wicca is a kind of Wicca worshiping Kemetic gods. Black Kemetism[edit] Ausar Auset Society[edit] Main article: Ausar Auset Society The Ausar Auset Society is a Pan-African religious organization founded in the early 1970s by Ra Un Nefer Amen. It is based in Brooklyn, New York with chapters in several major cities in the United States. The organization was created for the purpose of providing members a societal framework through which the Kemetic spiritual way of life can be lived daily. The organization provides afrocentric-based spiritual training to the African American community and to the African diaspora. The religion uses the Kemetic Tree of Life (Paut Neteru) as the basis of its cosmogony and philosophical underpinning. It seeks to reunite the traditions of the founders of civilization into a spiritually empowering way of life that aims at the awakening of the Ausar principle (the Divine Self) within each individual.
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