The Old Egypt It exerts a great fascination on all those who love history and if we also add some literature and a mystery, we may be able to move to more than 3,500 years ago and try to solve it. In Supercurioso we have already told you about an Egyptian story that could have been at the base of a European story: The story of the Rhodope slave, the Egyptian origin of Cinderella . This time we want to propose a game, can you finish the tale of Ancient Egypt of the Predestined Prince?
The tale of Ancient Egypt of the Predestined Prince
If we propose this game, it is because the tale of the Predestined Prince is incomplete . It was found on the back of the Papyrus Harris 500 belonging to the New Kingdom that developed between 1550 a.C. and 1070 a.C. The story is written in hieratic script and is believed to have been written during the reign of Seti I or Ramses II.
The tale of Ancient Egypt It begins with a king who fervently desires to have a child and does not succeed, so he prays to the gods and his wife that night conceives the desired son. At birth, the goddess Hathor that marks the fate of newborns, predicts that she will die for a dog, a snake or a crocodile. His father, to protect him, builds an isolated palace on a mountain and encloses it in it. The prince, leaning out of the window, sees a man with a dog and asks his father to give him one. The father, not wanting his son to feel miserable, gives him a small puppy believing that there is no danger in that animal. When the child becomes an adult he abandons the protection of the palace with the conviction that, if his destiny was marked, he will not be able to escape from it by isolating himself and that it is better to confront him. He travels to the kingdom of Nahrin, near the Euphrates, and there joins a group of princes from different countries who try to get the hand of a royal princess. The king had promised his hand to anyone who managed to climb the tower in which he was locked. After a few months without anyone getting it the Egyptian prince , who had kept his identity hidden, managed to get to the princess's window and despite the initial suspicion of the king, he marries the young .
The second part of this tale of Ancient Egypt It begins when the prince confesses his true identity to his wife and explains his destiny. The princess saves him from a snake who is about to attack him while he sleeps, thus overcoming the first of his possible destinies. The prince goes for a walk accompanied by his dog and he speaks to tell him that he is his destiny. The young man is scared even though for years nothing bad has been received from his friend and he flees to a lake where he finds a crocodile . He tells him that he will not kill him if he fights for him against a giant water demon that attacks him every day, the next time he appears. Here the story is cut.
What do you think can happen in this tale of Ancient Egypt ? Does the dog return and save it from a treacherous crocodile? Is there an unexpected twist in the story? Can you finish the story of the Predestined Prince? We await your end! If you like stories, we invite you to read the post: Hans Christian Andersen stories that will terrify you .