The Ancient Egyptian "Tale of Two Brothers": A Mythological, Religious, Literary And Historico-Political Study

by Hollis, Susan Tower

Edition: 2nd

ISBN13: 9780977409426

ISBN10: 0977409422

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2008-10-30

Publisher(s): David Brown Book Co

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Summary

The "Tale of Two Brothers" tells the nearly universal story of a handsome and chaste young shepherd who rejects seduction by a powerful older woman and, after many adventures, becomes king. Using comparative analysis, the author makes a major contribution to our understanding of a story that has puzzled folklorists for almost 140 years. At the same time, she constructs a model for examining ancient narratives, neither denying their cultural context nor allowing it to impede understanding. To provide this ancient context, Susan Tower Hollis utilizes a variety of works, including literary, mythological and wisdom texts, cultic materials, historical and political works, and Egyptian paintings, reliefs and sculptures.

Author Biography

Susan Tower Hollis is a Professor at Empire State College, State University of New York, Genesee Valley Center, Rochester, NY. She holds a Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. She is currently at work on a book discussing the early forms and activities of the Egyptian goddesses Neith, Hathor, Nut, Isis and Nephthys, while she continues to study ancient Egyptian literature.

Preface to the Second Edition	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
The Tale of Two Brothers - Papyrus d'Orbiney	p. 1
Historical Issues	p. 11
The Beginnings	p. 11
The Nineteenth-Century Search for Origins	p. 13
Twentieth-Century Ancient Near Eastern Scholars	p. 17
One or Several Tales?	p. 19
Twentieth-Century Ideas on Structure and Origins	p. 21
Myth or Folktale? The Folklorists' Views	p. 24
Myth or Folktale? The Egyptologists' Views	p. 26
Authorship and Style of Composition	p. 27
The Egyptian Context	p. 29
An Allegorical Approach	p. 32
Psychoanalytical Approaches	p. 34
Postwar Egyptological Studies	p. 36
The Papyrus Jumilhac	p. 44
The Brothers	p. 47
Bata in the Ramesside Period	p. 47
Biconsonantal Names commonly related to Bata	p. 51
Contexts of the Ramesside Examples	p. 54
Contexts of the Biconsonantal Names related to Bata	p. 58
Anubis: His Home and Relationships	p. 71
Anubis, the Ancient Mortuary God	p. 74
The Mortuary Role of Anubis	p. 79
The Negative Aspects of Anubis	p. 85
Rural Egypt	p. 89
The Brothers at Home	p. 89
Attempted Seduction	p. 94
Reactions of the Brothers	p. 99
Bata confronts Anubis	p. 100
The Separation of the Brothers	p. 102
Excursus I - The Papyrus d'Orbiney and Genesis 39	p. 105
The Phallus, the Valley and the Heart	p. 113
Bata's Phallus	p. 113
Osiris' Phallus	p. 116
The n$$r-Fish	p. 120
The Effect of Bata's Self-Emasculation	p. 124
The Valley of the $$ ¿ and its Significance	p. 126
Bata's Heart and Egyptian Beliefs about the Heart	p. 131
Bata's Heart on the Tree	p. 138
The Secret of the Heart	p. 140
Excursus II - Osiris in Byblos	p. 143
Life in the Valley	p. 147
Bata as Hunter	p. 147
Bata, Bull of the Ennead	p. 149
Bata's Wife	p. 151
p3 ym	p. 157
Royal Egypt	p. 161
Bata's Wife goes to Egypt	p. 161
Bata's Death and Anubi's Search	p. 165
Bata as Bull: Life and Death	p. 168
Bata as Persea	p. 172
Kamutef	p. 175
Bata's Birth	p. 179
Accession	p. 186
Conclusion: An Egyptian Tale	p. 187
Appendix - Selections from the Papyrus Jumilhac	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 219
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