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    Stories from Ancient Egypt
    Stories from Ancient Egypt
    Stories from Ancient Egypt
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    Stories from Ancient Egypt

    By Joyce A. Tyldesley and Julian Heath

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    Some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and legends from Ancient Egypt are given a lively re-telling by Joyce Tyldesley. These include stories about the gods, such as The Creation of the World, Hathor and the Red Beer, and the myths about Osiris, Isis and Horus. Fairy stories and incredible adventures are represented by The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, The Adventures of Sinuhe and The Prince, the Dog, the Snake and the Crocodile, while good and bad behaviour are to be found in Three Magical Stories and The Story of Truth and Falsehood. King Ramesses II himself tells us about The Battle of Kadesh. The book is illustrated with imaginative and amusing line-drawings by Julian Heath, and each of the stories has a question and answer section for budding young Egyptologists. STORIES FROM ANCIENT EGYPT is aimed at children between the ages of 7-11, but this book is an entertaining and informative introduction to the literature of Ancient Egypt for all ages. It is a new edition of a title previously published by Rutherford Press
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOxbow Books
    Release dateOct 31, 2012
    ISBN9781782971320
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      Stories from Ancient Egypt - Joyce A. Tyldesley

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      THE CREATION OF THE WORLD

      In the beginning nothing existed but the swirling sea. There was no land and there was no sky. No gods, no people, no light and no time. Only water. But deep within the dark sea a small egg was floating. Hidden in that egg was a spark of life which struggled to escape.

      Suddenly the egg cracked open. Life had started. With a huge roar, and a great surge of water, an island rose out of chaos. And sitting on the island was the god Atum. Atum shone like the sun and brought light to his new land. But there was no one else on his island, and he felt very lonely.

      Atum decided to make some more gods. He spat and he sneezed, and spit flew out of his mouth and snot shot out of his nose and splattered on the ground. Yuk! But two beautiful children grew from this nasty mess. Atum named his son Shu and his daughter Tefnut. Shu became the god of the air, and Tefnut became the goddess of moisture. And Atum, Shu and Tefnut lived safe from harm on their island in the middle of the sea.

      Atum loved his children dearly, but he worried about them all the time. He never let them out of his sight because he was certain that something bad would happen to them. One dreadful day he looked away, just for a second. That was long enough. Shu and Tefnut wandered away from their father and fell into the sea.

      Atum saw them struggling as they vanished under the waves. His eyes filled with tears and everything was blurred; he could hardly see. He searched the depths of the sea until he found the twins and carried them back to the island. With Shu and Tefnut safe on dry land, Atum’s tears of sorrow turned to tears of joy. The tears fell onto the island, and from them grew men and women.

      Tefnut gave birth to twins. Geb was the handsome god of the earth. He lay down and carried the green fields, the damp marshes and the great River Nile on his back. His laughter brought earthquakes and his anger brought famine.

      Nut was the beautiful goddess of the sky. She stretched herself above the earth with her fingers and toes resting on the horizons of the north, east, south and west. Her laughter brought thunder, and her tears brought rain. Along her deep blue body the stars and moon twinkled and shone at night.

      ABOUT THE CREATION OF THE WORLD

      Some Egyptians believed that the world began when a beetle crawled out of the petals of a beautiful flower. Others thought that the world hatched from an egg laid by a gigantic goose! The tale of Atum and his island was the creation story told by the priests who worshipped the sun god, Re.

      Egypt had hundreds of gods and goddesses. Some looked like ordinary people, some looked like animals, and some were a weird mixture of animal heads stuck on human bodies. Many of the gods and goddesses had several different disguises. Atum was one of these. He usually looked like a man wearing the crown of Egypt, but he could also be a snake or a beetle.

      The Egyptians lived on the edge of a desert; they knew that water was necessary for life. This story would have reminded them of what happened every year when their own fields re-appeared from under the Nile floodwaters.

      WHAT DO YOU THINK?

      Why was the River Nile important to the Egyptians?

      Why did the Egyptians not need roads?

      What sort of foods do you think the Egyptians ate?

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      HATHOR AND THE RED BEER

      A long time ago gods, goddesses and people lived together in Egypt. They were ruled by Re, the sun god. Re had been king of Egypt for many, many years. He had ruled wisely and well. The fields were golden with ripe corn, the river was full of tasty fish, and the yellow deserts glittered with flecks of gold. But not everyone was happy. Some of the people thought that Re was far too old to be king, and they started to plot against

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