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- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
The Fated Prince
How often does the reader get the chance to read a story from four thousand years ago?
This is a story from the 18th/19th dynasty of Egypt of a prince under a curse.
As he battles the magical forces against him, he undertakes a journey. By his own strength he wins a princess and then, as his curse seems to catch up with him, fate offers a him a chance to show his mental skill.
Sekmet
The Ancient Egyptians had many things to fear. They addressed some of their fears to Sekmet, the goddess devourer worshipped in her temple by priestesses in lion skin robes.
Princess of Nubia
The Nubians are a proud people. In their history they, for many years, intermarried with the nobility of the north and even conquered Egypt once, and had been pharaohs. They were also known in the past for their women warriors and warrior queens. Here a young Princess leads her people against a formidable invader.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
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The featured story The Fated Prince (often titled The Cursed Prince ) is a traditional Ancient Egyptian story translated from a papyrus of the 18/19th Dynasty and reprinted in the work of Dr Joyce Tyldesley, " Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt." It was intriguing to read this story but as it approached a climax, at the crucial point, it was left unfinished. I am grateful for permission from Joyce Tyldesley to reproduce the story with my added ending. The Sekmet poems are complimentary in that they show how ancient belief evolved from early experiences to meet the threats Egyptians faced .BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 MunichThe Fated Prince
Retelling of an Egyptian story from the 18th dynasty – 1550-1292 BC.
In ancient Egypt a king had all he wished for except a son.
As was the custom, when a son was born to him, the Seven Hathors came to the baby’s bedside to give prediction to the child.
They said the child would prosper but be fated to die by either a snake, a dog, or a crocodile.
The king was much troubled by this news and sent his son off to a remote palace with orders that he be kept safe from these things. The growing boy lacked for nothing but was kept inside this palace away from the dangers of the outside world.
One day from a rooftop he saw a man walk by with a greyhound. The boy had never seen one and asked that he be allowed to have one and so a puppy was procured.
When the young man was grown he said to his father,
“I have not known the outside world, now I must go out and experience it. The father reluctantly equipped him with weapons and a chariot and the young man set off north and crossed the Sinai into Naharin or Mitanni on the upper reaches of the Euphrates river.
In this land dwelt a king with a most beautiful, wise and accomplished daughter.
But the king locked her into a tall tower saying to the suitors,
“The one who can jump as far as her window will win her hand.”
