Horus Khrinos Za became a Wiccan in the fall of 2003. He spent five years studying various traditions of the Old Religion and became an ordained Priest in 2008 with the Universal Ministries in Milford, IL. After spending a year and a half as a solitary practitioner, he took up teaching others. His apprentices elected him High Priest and together they founded the Temple of the Eternal Phoenix and the Eternal Phoenix tradition. It was then that he took on the Ancient Egyptian titles of Horus and Za, which means Son of Ra.