Tale of Two Brothers

( Egyptian Folktale )
 History
•This story was written for Seti II (1209-1205
B.C.) of the nineteenth Egyptian dynasty.
 Vocabulary words :
•Froth
•Ennead
•Depicted
•Pharaoh
•resurrected
Froth
• Bubble Pharaoh
• Ruler or leader
Ennead
• Group Resurrectedd
• restore
Depicted
• Show or represent
Summary of the story
The story centers around two brothers: Anpu (Anubis),
who is married, and the younger Bata. The brothers
work together, farming land and raising cattle. One day,
Anpu's wife attempts to seduce Bata. When he strongly
rejects her advances, the wife tells her husband that
his brother attempted to seduce her and beat her when
she refused. In response to this, Anpu attempts to kill
Bata, who flees and prays to Re-Harakhti to save him.
The god creates a crocodile-infested lake between the two
brothers, across which Bata is finally able to appeal to his
brother and share his side of the events. To emphasize his
sincerity, Bata severs his genitalia and throws them into the
water, where a catfish eats them. Bata states that he is
going to the Valley of the Acacia, where he will place his
heart on the top of the blossom of a cedar tree, so that if it
is cut down Anpu will be able to find it and allow Bata to
become alive again.
Bata tells Anpu that if he is ever given a jar of beer
that froths, he should know to seek out his brother.
After hearing of his brother's plan, Anpu returns
home and kills his wife. Meanwhile, Bata is
establishing a life in the Valley of the Acacia, building
a new home for himself. Bata comes upon the Ennead,
or the principal Egyptian deities, who take pity on him.
Khnum, the god frequently depicted in Egyptian
mythology as having fashioned humans on a potters'
wheel, creates a wife for Bata. Because of her divine
creation, Bata's wife is sought after by the pharaoh.
When the pharaoh succeeds in bringing her to live with
him, she tells him to cut down the tree in which Bata
has put his heart. They do so, and Bata dies.
Anpu then receives a frothy jar of beer and sets off to
the Valley of the Acacia He searches for his brother's
heart for more than three years, finding it at the
beginning of the fourth year. He follows Bata's
instructions and puts the heart in a bowl of cold water.
As predicted, Bata is resurrected. Bata then takes the
form of a bull and goes to see his wife and the pharaoh.
His wife, aware of his presence as a bull, asks the
pharaoh if she may eat its liver.
The bull is then sacrificed, and two drops of Bata's
blood fall, from which grow two Persea trees. Bata,
now in the form of a tree, again addresses his wife,
and she appeals to the pharaoh to cut down the
Persea trees and use them to make furniture. As this
is happening, a splinter ends up in the wife's mouth,
impregnating her. She eventually gives birth to a son,
whom the pharaoh ultimately makes crown prince.
When the pharaoh dies, the crown prince (a
resurrected Bata) becomes king, and he
appoints his elder brother Anpu as crown
prince. The story ends happily, with the
brothers at peace with one another and in
control of their country.
The End
The elements of the story
• Setting • Point of view
• Characters • symbol
• Plot • Theme
• Conflict • moral
• Denouement
 Setting
Location Time
•on the house •Ancient time of Egypt
•field •Long ago
•near the river
•Valley of the Acacia
 Characters
Protagonist
Anpu - the elder brother
Bata - the younger brother
God Ra - the gracious god who helped Bata.
Antagonist
Wife - the jealous wife of Anpu who wanted to destroy Bata to his
husband.
 Plot
EXPOSITION
Once there were two brothers.Anpu was the name of the elder and Bata was the
of the younger.
RISSING ACTION
When Anpu's wife be came jealous and want to destroy bata, becuse Anpu loves
his brother very much.
CLIMAX
When anpu see his wife in great pain and pretended to be sick but the truth is
Anpu's wife paited black and blue to pretend the she beaten by Bata .Anpu's wife
said that Bata beaten her up.
 FALLING ACTION
When anpu found his wife near the river washing off the blue and black dye
with which she paited herself.
Conflict
The conflict in the story is man vs. man in the place of the two bothers vs.
the wife.
Denouement
The resolution in the story is when Anpu realized the mistake he had done to
his brother while his brother found peace living in the valley of the Acacia.
 theme
The theme of the story is life process where it tells the
experience of the two brothers.
Point of view
The point of view in the story is third person
symbol
The symbol for this story is the knife which is used by Anpu
when he attempted to kill his brother
 moral
Blood is thicker than water.