Solar charging
Tools, jewellery, water and seeds laid in direct sunlight at sunrise, noon or sunset to be quickened with vitality.
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Major Deity
Napisten
The Sun God · Nap Atya — Father Sun
Wheel of the year, eye of heaven — life-giver and impartial judge.
Napisten is the steady, golden heart of the visible world — vitality, ripening, the impartial witness whose light falls equally on the just and the unjust. The wheel of the Hungarian festival year turns at his hand: the kindling of the midsummer fire, the long shadow of the equinox, the silver thread at winter's dawn. He is honoured outdoors, with the face lifted.
“What is done in the dark, the sun will say back in the morning.”
Mágia · Magick
Types of magick worked in their name
Truth magick
Bringing hidden things to light — speaking a question into a bowl of water at noon and letting the sun answer in glints.
Healing of cold and damp
Convalescents are brought into morning sun; cloths used in healing are dried only by sunlight, never by fire.
Áldozat · Offerings
What to bring
Szertartás · Rituals
Ways of meeting
The Dawn Greeting — step outside at first light, face east, lift both hands palm-out, and name three things you are grateful for before the sun has fully cleared the horizon.
On Szent Iván éj (the summer solstice eve) leap the bonfire to burn off the old year's stains; carry a coal home to relight the hearth.
At each equinox, write what you owe and what is owed to you, settle what you can by sundown, and burn the list at dusk.
Igézet · Spells
Workings you can try
Folk workings, given in good faith. Approach with respect; results are theirs, not yours.
Sun-water
Set a clear glass of spring water in direct sunlight from dawn to noon. Drink while facing east for clarity; sprinkle through a room to dispel heaviness.
Golden cord
Knot a yellow cord at sunrise for seven mornings in a row, naming the strength you ask for. Wear it under your clothes until it falls of its own accord.
Szent színek · Sacred Colors
Their palette
- ◆Gold
- ◆Bright yellow
- ◆Honey-amber
- ◆Copper
Szent számok · Sacred Numbers
Their reckoning
- ✦1 — the single eye of heaven
- ✦12 — the months of his wheel
- ✦365 — the long round
Szabad · Do
Walk with them
- ✓Honour him outdoors, face uncovered
- ✓Keep your word in daylight transactions
- ✓Greet the dawn aloud when you can
- ✓Eat in his light when you can — meals taken outside are blessed
Tilos · Don't
Do not cross them
- ✗Do not curse facing the sun
- ✗Do not waste light — wasteful candle-burning at noon offends
- ✗Do not lie under his open gaze; he records everything
- ✗Do not stare directly into his face at midsummer noon