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Week 6 Story: The Thief

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 There was once a great king on the planet Nimbus Nine, his riches were so vast that the banks could not hold them. He sought for an idea to keep his riches safe and polled his closest advisors. The chief architect presented him with a grand vault that touched the clouds and went as far as the eye could see. The king liked this plan and proceeded with it. He forced all his people to work on the vault, even the architect was forced into manual labor! The architect was angered by this and installed a secret passage right to the heart of the vault. The key was a retinal scan that opened a door from the sewers underneath the city. Before he could use this to avenge deeds done against him he was diagnosed with stage four cancer. He died one week later with his two sons and wife by his side. He said, "To my wife I love you and will miss you dearly. To my sons I love you even more! Before I die I must tell you of the secret passage to the kings vault. Go down into the sewers and go to wh...

Reading Notes: Ancient Egyptian Myths and Stories Part B

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Two brothers lived together, Anpu was the eldest and Bata was the younger. Anpu was a full fledged adult with a house and wife. The other brother worked hard upon his brothers land, tending to cattle and the fields. After a display of strength, Anpu's Wife threw herself upon him. He rejected her advances, remarking that he was disgusted with her actions. The wife told Anpu a tastefully edited story in her favor, sparking his rage against his brother. So much so that Anpu wished to kill him. Bata fled his brother, and Anpu came to know his wife's treachery. Bata came to have a wife from the sun god Ra, who was sought after by many men. A King wished to have her and sent many men and soldiers to bring her back. The men killed Bata and took the woman away. His brother came and revived him, Bata took the form of a bull, and they set off after his wife. After finding his wife with the king, she commanded the king to sacrifice the bull so that she may eat his liver. The king with gre...

Reading Notes: Ancient Egyptian Myths and Stories Part A

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The story start as a simple creation story similar to that of the bible or other creation stories. Ra, god of the sun, was the first and greatest among the gods to be created. He then later created all living things, including humans. The mysteries Ra's power is said to come from a secret name which is never spoken by word, but held deeply inside him. The goddess Isis had great ambitions to be as powerful as Ra, so she set out to learn his secret name. she created a snake from his saliva and the earth that bit him. This snake made him deathly ill, and Isis coerced the secret name out of Ra so that she might heal him while also fulfilling her own wishes. Ra after ruling for many ages came to know of treachery by man against him. He gathered all the gods to his side in secret as to not cause a panic in the people. The gods decided that mankind must be punished, so the gods began slaughtering them. Soon after much bloodshed, Ra's anger had past and he wished to save what remained ...