Reading Notes: Ancient Egypt, Reading B

The Two Brothers

  • Anpu - older
    • house with wife
    • believes his younger brother abused his wife
    • decides to ambush his brother
    • hears truth - grieves and kills his wife
    • comes to brother's rescue after king has the forest cut down (make my story into something about deforestation?)
      • raised Bata from the dead
  • Bata - younger; loyal to his brother
    • laborer
    • understood oxen
    • wife of brother admired his strength
      • "angry as a panther" - used to describe both brothers at diff times
    • calls on Ra
      • creates wide stream with crocodiles
    • day dawns - tells brother truth
      • quest to regain brothers trust
      • goes to new land - gods fashion him a wife (prophecy that she will die a speedy death)
    • raised from the dead
      • becomes a sacred bull

  • Sea spirit
    • Saw Bata's wife - enthralled, chased after her
    • was gifted a lock of her hair
      • made it to Egypt - perfumed
      • King sent messengers across world to find this woman
        • Bata's wife comes back with the woman - answer why?
  • Bata's wife
    • asks Pharaoh to sacrifice the bull and cut down the Persea trees
    • swallows part of the Persea tree - has a son who becomes the King
Image information: Apis bull on coffin; photographed by Michael Holford.

Bibliography: 
"The Two Brothers: Part One;" story source: Egyptian Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie (1907).

"The Two Brothers: Part Two;" story source: Egyptian Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie (1907).
"The Two Brothers: Part Three;" story source: Egyptian Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie (1907).
"The Two Brothers: Part Four;" story source: Egyptian Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie (1907).

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