Unit: Ancient Egyptian Myths and Stories from Egyptian Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie
The Two Brothers: Part One
-Anpu, the older son; Bata, the younger son
-Anpu and his wife owned a farm and treated Bata like their son. Bata worked hard everyday and labored with his older brother.
-One day, Anpu's wife tried to seduce Bata, but Bata refused and went back to work. The brothers came back to Anpu's wife beaten by an "evildoer" and she blamed it on Bata. Anpu began to beat and was going to kill Bata.
Part 2:
-Bata called upon Ra to help reveal the truth to his brother
-When Anpu realized that his wife was lying, he killed her, but Bata had already moved away and started a new life
-the gods told Bata to return to his brother, and they also gave him a wife who could never go outside because Hathors would kill her
Part 3:
-since Bata's wife was so beautiful, many men wanted her as their own.
-it took a lot of warriors and another woman to get Bata's wife to come to the king.
-The king sent warriors to cut down the acacia tree where Bata's soul was kept. When he dropped dead, Anpu knew something was wrong and went to check on him. He found his brother dead and went on a 4-year journey to find Bata's soul.
-When the correct nourishment supplied the seed in which Bata's soul rested, he grew back into a man and took the form on a bull to find his wife.
Part 4:
-Bata goes to the palace as a bull and when he speaks to his girl wife, she is scared and asks the king that the bull might be sacrificed. When the bull bled, from the drops grew two Persea trees.
-When Bata revealed that he was the Persea trees, the girl wife commanded that they be cut down. As she was near, a piece of wood flew into her mouth and she swallowed it. From then, she bore a son and the king made the son--who was actually Bata--the next in line for the throne. So, Bata reigned as king and appointed his brother, Anpu to be next in line.
The Two Brothers: Part One
-Anpu, the older son; Bata, the younger son
-Anpu and his wife owned a farm and treated Bata like their son. Bata worked hard everyday and labored with his older brother.
-One day, Anpu's wife tried to seduce Bata, but Bata refused and went back to work. The brothers came back to Anpu's wife beaten by an "evildoer" and she blamed it on Bata. Anpu began to beat and was going to kill Bata.
Part 2:
-Bata called upon Ra to help reveal the truth to his brother
-When Anpu realized that his wife was lying, he killed her, but Bata had already moved away and started a new life
-the gods told Bata to return to his brother, and they also gave him a wife who could never go outside because Hathors would kill her
Part 3:
-since Bata's wife was so beautiful, many men wanted her as their own.
-it took a lot of warriors and another woman to get Bata's wife to come to the king.
-The king sent warriors to cut down the acacia tree where Bata's soul was kept. When he dropped dead, Anpu knew something was wrong and went to check on him. He found his brother dead and went on a 4-year journey to find Bata's soul.
-When the correct nourishment supplied the seed in which Bata's soul rested, he grew back into a man and took the form on a bull to find his wife.
Part 4:
-Bata goes to the palace as a bull and when he speaks to his girl wife, she is scared and asks the king that the bull might be sacrificed. When the bull bled, from the drops grew two Persea trees.
-When Bata revealed that he was the Persea trees, the girl wife commanded that they be cut down. As she was near, a piece of wood flew into her mouth and she swallowed it. From then, she bore a son and the king made the son--who was actually Bata--the next in line for the throne. So, Bata reigned as king and appointed his brother, Anpu to be next in line.
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