Reading Notes: Ancient Egypt; Part B

All stories below were received from Egyptian Myth and Legend, by Donald Mackenzie 

The Two Brothers: Part I

  • Dialect is very hard to understand, sounds like something from ancient scripture. However, it is still readable. 
  • Starts the story with the normal "there once was ..." just like many other ancient myths or short stories that were available during this time and forward.
    • This can be something that I can incorporate into my stories
  • I like how, out of the two brothers, one was said to be "imbued with the spirit of the gods"
    • However, the other brother was not
    • This indication can show the source of conflict as well the differences in character between the two characters.
    • But why only one of the brothers?
  • Bata, the one that was imbued with the spirit of the gods, is able to understand the tongue of the oxen and other animals
    • This can be a magical aspect that is needed in many mythological stories/folktales.
The Two Brothers: Part II
  • Towards the end of Part I, there was a source of external conflict from the wife of the older brother.
    • This aspect, I've noticed, is increasingly popular as the inseparable brothers, bonded by blood or even the best of friends, are turned to foes by the inclusion of an external evil; which in this case, was the wife of the older brother
  • Here, the animals served as a messenger and warn Bata that his brother was coming with the intent to kill him
  • Interference of the divine beings, which in this case, was the sun god, Ra

  • (Ra, the Sun God. SourceL Wikimedia)

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