Sutekh Goes to the Movies
Today’s movie: Groundhog Day
The 1993 movie Groundhog Day involves a weather reporter who gets stuck in a time loop, reliving the same day over and over. A seemingly hopeless situation; everything he does gets reset, so it doesn’t matter what he does. He decides to try to win the heart of his coworker by using the time loop to learn everything about her, but even on his most perfect day he fails to make her fall in love with him within 24 hours, so he falls into a deep depression, ending his life multiple times only to wake up back in bed at the start of the day again. After he tries to confide in his coworker his predicament, and proves it to her, she suggests maybe the time loop isn’t a curse, it just depends on how he looks at it. So he decides to use the time loop to better himself. He learns foreign languages, learns how to play piano, educates himself, wins his coworker’s heart by becoming his authentic self, reaching his fullest potential. And that is when he breaks the time loop.
From a Setian perspective, I think this movie perfectly illustrates the ancient Egyptian concept of “kheper” (π£), to come into being. Sutekh aids Ra every night on a trip through the underworld, fighting the Chaos Serpent among a slew of other baddies, until he is reborn at sunrise as Khepri, the scarab-headed Solar diety. Sutekh would relate to this movie a lot, having to repeat a day over and over until you get it right. This movie is a metaphor for life. You’ll notice the story shifts when the main character realizes there are no lasting consequences to his actions, and again when he decides to view it as an opportunity to grow rather than a curse. It falls in line with Nietzsche’s concepts such as “amor fati”, learning to love and accept your fate, and that of the ΓΌbermensch, a person who has reached their fullest potential and is no longer chained to the morals of society but creates and follows their own. The purpose of life is something you have to give it, but it could be that you’re supposed to overcome adversity and “kheper”. If you want to bring reincarnation into it, perhaps this is the final goal of your ka, the part of your soul that lives thousands of times until reaching its fullest potential. Life doesn’t have to be a “curse”. Once you stop looking at it that way, you can better yourself, and “kheper”. I’m personally due for another kheper sometime soon myself, maybe this year. Still got some more dark underworld stuff to tread through first.
Here is a good essay on “kheper” by Don Webb of the Temple of Set; I’m not affiliated with the temple, preferring to forge my own path, but it is a good summary of the concept through a Setian lense.
https://xeper.info/pub/pub_dw_xeper.html
May Set rise and Aπpπeπpπ fall. πΌπ’ππͺ
πΉ֍֎πΉ
~ Siamanto the Foreigner
π·π πππ―ππππΊπππ ππ
ΥΥ«Υ‘Υ΄Υ‘ΥΆΥ©Φ ΥΥΏΥ‘ΦΥ¨
