Myth 2 Exam Notes

#1: Remember that everyone is headed to Pharaoh’s court to try to get a commission from him (i.e. a nice government job)

#3: Ironically, the captain and crew boast that they know the weather super well—and then they get caught in a storm and wrecked.

#5: Remember that the sailor encounters a giant talking serpent on the island! (Hard, right?)

#2: Among other things, the Book of Thoth gives the reader the ability to understand the language of birds and animals!

#6: The book is guarded by a serpent that cannot be killed.

#9: To memorize the spells in the book, Neferkaptah copies them onto another scroll, washes the words off with beer, and drinks it.

#12: Neferkaptah challenges Setna to a game of Setna to win the book. Setna sinks into the sand every time he loses.

#16/17: Basically, the dream Setna has involves him sacrificing things important to him (divorcing his wife, killing his children) to gain something that turns out to be dead and worthless (Tabubua turns into a withered corpse when he finally embraces her).

#19: The final…indignity, I guess, for Setna is that, to fulfill his promise to Neferkaptah, he has to buy an expensive house and demolish it to dig underneath it.

#1: The temple of Hershef gives protection to anyone who takes refuge there. The Greek sailors went there because they were too scared to sail with Paris anymore.

#4: Helen says she’s with Paris because he was magically changed to look like her husband and tricked her.

#6: Paris leaves because he thinks Helen is on his ship—but Thoth sent Helen’s ka instead.

#10: Helen tells Rameses that she needs to perform funeral rites for her “dead” husband before she can remarry.

#2: The Ethiopian comes to Rameses court to prove that the magic of Ethiopia is greater than that of Egypt.

#3: Setna is worried because doesn’t know how to read a sealed letter.

#6/7/8: The rulers of Ethiopia and Egypt take turns having each other magically kidnapped and beaten before their people.

#10: Se-Osiris announces that the magician-messenger from Ethiopia is inhabited by the ba of the ancient “son of Tnahsit” who was disgraced long ago, and is still trying to prove his point.

#11: Se-Osiris turns the magician’s magic back on himself, burning him to a pile of ash.

#2: Se-Osiris wishes his father would have a funeral like that of the poor man. <Gasp!>

#3: Se-Osiris performs a ritual to separate their soul-parts from their physical bodies.

#4: Your Ba looks like a bird with golden feathers with your head on top.

#5: Souls of the dead get to the judgement by riding on Ra’s sun boat.

#9: Anubis brings the souls to the judgement scales.

#11: The heart of the deceased is weighed against a feather.

#13: The rich man is currently in agony, with the post of the door to the Third Region turning in his eye socket.(?!?)