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Reading notes:
Reading A
Creation:
Interesting that the world started covered in water like many scientists believe.
I wonder why Earth only started with one God, did they come in a specific order after the first?
Interesting that Ra took the form of a human and walked among them.
The Secret Name of Ra:
Isis lived in the human world but grew tired of humans. I could focus on her and what she was feeling on earth. Although it would be hard to think from a perspective of a God.
Oh so all of the Gods are Ra’s children and his father is Nu.
It is weird that the Gods are not as immortal as other ancient Gods and could be killed by a snake bite.
Ra and Hathor:
“So beer was made” This is a good God for sure. Filling thousands of jars with beer. Funny that blood is paid by beer. And then they got a Goddess drunk so she’d stop killing people. Huh.
I could write in the perspective of someone who was almost killed by Hathor but survived because she got drunk.
Or, I could write about someone who had a parent who survived Hathor’s killing spree and the story would be mostly about the celebration.
The Sun’s Journey:
Interesting that the moon was created as a solution for the Gods.
So Ra got passed all of the different tasks of the underworld so that Ra can be reborn and they are all reborn at the end. I’m not sure how I could change this into some other kind of story… Maybe I could change each task to something else. I am not sure about this one.
Osiris:
I could write a story about someone who lived during the transition from small tribes to a united kingdom.
The Death of Osiris:
They locked Osiris in a coffin that fit perfectly. I could write about Isis and her sorrows of her husband’s murder.
Interesting that the woman was okay with her after her protectors killed her child…even though she brought it back to life.
The Journey of Isis:
I could talk about Isis’s fear that her son would be killed too.
Why do all of these kids get stung by scorpions and then get brought back to life.
She is one dedicated lady.
King of the Dead:
I could write about Horus’s life while he was readying to take back the throne from his crazy uncle.
The Wax Crocodile:
The scribe’s wife was burned at the stake and the youth who she had relations with was taken away by the crocodile.
The Green Jewel:
I could write in the perspective of one of the twenty pretty virgins.
Reading B:
The Two Brothers: Part One:
I could write about the daily life of the two brothers. It would focus on the daily struggles of their lives. I could also write about the elder brother’s wife. What she felt for the two brothers.
The wife of the brother sucks.
The Two Brothers: Part Two:
I could write about Bata’s wife. It could try to explain why she wanted the other brother. Maybe she felt like she was meant to be a mother but her husband was sterile. The story could be written either in the first person or in diary form. There isn’t much about her in the story other than her wanting to cheat on her husband in a seemingly selfish manner. When she was denied, she could just be embarrassed and didn’t want her husband to find out the truth of what she had asked. So, she told her husband the lie first. She thought she would be able to get away with bearing a child from her brother-in-law because they look similar.
The Two Brothers: Part Three:
I could write about the older brother during all of this. It could include the daily life and how he regrets trusting his wife. He is very lonely and when the beer bubbled and the wine was sour, he was excited to finally be reunited with his brother. Although he knew his brother was momentarily dead, he was determined to find his brother’s soul and revive him.
I could also write about how the younger brother’s wife felt about being in this arranged marriage. Not only that but to be confined to her house, not allowed to leave because of fear of the sea spirit.
The Two Brothers: Part Four:
I don’t know what I would write about for this one. Maybe I could write a poem about this whole section. It could rhyme and account for the guy never dying.
The Book of Thoth: Part One:
I could write from the perspective of Ahura, Nafer-ka-ptah’s wife. How she tried to not let him go on his mission. It could be in diary or first person form. She would not be happy that she had to go with their child.
The Book of Thoth: Part Two:
I could focus on the opening of boxes and tell a story or write a poem about that. It is interesting that he gave the book to his wife to read as well. That he would share the power.
The Book of Thoth: Part Three:
It really stinks that the wife and child were lumped into his greed and that they also have to pay for what he has done. Interesting that he would still want the book even though it cost him his and his family’s lives.
The Tale of King Rhampsinitus:
I could rewrite the story in the perspective of the mother or the son who lived. It would be in first person.
Bibliography: Egyptian Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie
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