A Legend of Old Egypt

wanted to be truly happy he had to seek out a higher purpose. Santiago has a dream early on in the story that a child came up to Santiago when he was with his sheep and the child grabbed Santiago’s hands and transported him to the great pyramids in Egypt and tells him that he will find the treasure near them. After Santiago has this dream he goes to a dream interpreter to have his dream analysed and the lady tells him that he should go on and pursue the treasure that the little boy told him about.

where a young boy tells Santiago to find the treasure at the Pyramids in Egypt. Santiago, not trusting his instinct of what the dream means, goes to a Gypsy dream interpreter

just like we do today. If they didn`t create these religions, we would have different beliefs today. According to the evidence ancient Egypt influenced our religions we follow today. Ancient Egypt was one of the first countries that converted to Christianity in 43 CE. A lot of the legends of ancient Egyptian gods were transferred to the new god Jesus. The legends were transferred to the new god Jesus because of the early childhood stories of Jesus and his mother Mary as they were often compared stories

Introduction I. Attention Getter: Formatted as one long story, beginning with the creation of Ra, the Still god, and Thoth, the moon god, and ending with the story of how the Egyptians believed they arrived in heaven II. Thesis/Preview: In todays speech I will be giving you information of the Ancient Egyptian gods and then I will tell you what purpose these gods had towards the Egyptians and others. Body I. Who they are a. Anubis -God of dead, embalming, funerals, and mourning ceremonies, Jackal-headed

They all had an affect on Egyptian lifestyle. You will be learning about three animals that were a huge part in an Egyptian's life. I’m almost certain that everyone knows that people are cats were worshipped in Egypt. But I'm not so sure about people knowing that Bubastis in northern Egypt worshipped cats more than any other city. But in all that worshipping there has to be some haters, amongst those haters may be murderers(of cats obviously, what were you thinking). Even if someone killed a cat by

One of Hatshepsut's major achievements was expanding the trade routes of Ancient Egypt. Most notably was an expedition to the Land of Punt, which became a major trade partner supplying Egypt with gold, resin, wood, ivory, and wild animals. Scholars still debate the exact location of Ancient Punt, but many believe it to be roughly modern-day Somalia to Sudan. Due partially to these new trade networks, her reign was marked by wealth, prosperity, and peace. Hatshepsut sent five massive ships to open

As Wood mentions, “Alexander’s empire left a strange and glittering debris in its wake: lost cities, blue-eyed Indians, exotic treasures, ancient manuscripts, and a great harvest of stories, songs, poems, myths and legends. His legend spread to every corner of the Old World…” (xiii). Alexander united diverse minds and created a symbolic form of logos - communication spoken through manuscripts, literature, and art. Comparable to his vast conquests, Alexander is acknowledged with the spread

innovatively throughout the story; one should forever live to pursue his personal legend and never give up on his dream. (Coelho). The monomyth applies to the main character of the novella, Santiago, a young Shepard with enough passion and will to uncover his personal legend. The boy gets called to start his search for his personal legend through a dream, a dream of a child grabbing on his hand to the pyramids of Egypt, unleashing a secret of a treasure buried under the deserts sand. Later on,

This investigation attempts to correctly analyze in what way the geography of Egypt influenced the ancient Egyptian religion. This query is very relevant because, certain geographical items influenced the creation of the ancient religion that helped shape many religions that are very prevalent today such as Christianity and Judaism. The issues that will be addressed are how the great Sahara Desert surrounding the civilization, the Nile river that nourishes the whole population, and how the overall

is the outline of my report I picked Cleopatra because she has a lot of variable things about her. One of her variable reasons is She is the queen of Egypt, she is a mother and a Queen and a mother she has a baby queen Cleopatra has been a queen since 69-august 30 30Bce she has also been queen since she was 18 years old and she has a 10 year old brother her baby’s just been born a few months ago. Cleopatra died and she was young and her dad Ptolemy XI was sad. Cleopatra got married when she was