The Two Brothers Part 1:
- Anpu (older brother) and Bata (younger brother)
- Anpu had wife and house, Bata lived with him like a son.
- Bata drove oxen to field, did harvesting, and could speak with oxen.
- They were sewing fields and Bata went to get seed. Anpu's wife was in the house and lusted after him. He then denied her and left saying he wouldn't say word of it to anyone.
- She then faked a rape and Anpu wanted to kill Bata, and Anpu was waiting with a knife behind a door in the barn.
- Luckily he could speak to the oxen and they warned him.
- He was running while being chased and Ra put a river between them full of crocodiles.
- Bata left and Anpu killed his wife.
- Ra made Bata a wife when he moved to the valley of the acacia. She was extremely beautiful.
- Part of Bata's soul was in the top of an acacia tree in the valley.
- A lock of the wife's hair made its way to the king of Egypt.
- He took the wife and she told him of Bata's secret.
- They then cut down the tree and Bata died.
- Apnea found him dead and searched for the flowering acacia that could bring Bata back to life.
- He found a seed with his should and Bata cam back to life.
- Bata turned into a bull, Anpu rode on his back, and they went to see the king of Egypt.
- He was taken as a gift and became the sacred bull. He then spoke to the wife when he was alone with her and this scared her to death.
- She then asked the king to eat the bull's liver and they killed the bull, but where his blood fell rose two Persea trees.
- She wanted the tree cut down and when they did a wood chip fell in her mouth. She then became pregnant with a son.
- Bata was that son and when he became king they sentenced the queen for her crimes.
- Anpu was appointed as royal heir and became king when Bata died 30 years later.
- King Nefer-ka-ptah loved to read ancient records and one day a priest told him of a book written by Thoth containing all magic in the world.
- He was told it was in an iron box at Kaptos in the middle of a river. However, it was surrounded by snakes, scorpions, and a snake no man can kill.
- The king then let him take a royal barge with his wife (Ahura) and son (Merab).
- He found the box and saw it was guarded by the creatures.
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- He used a spell to paralyze all the creatures, but the invincible snake. He cut off its head, but it always reattached. He put sand on its neck after cutting it off and it wasn't able to reconnect.
- He found the book and both he and his wife read it and gained magical powers.
- He wrote all the spells on papyrus, rinsed it in his beer, drank the beer, and knew all the spells.
- Thoth was mad that his book was stolen and Ra told him to do whatever he wanted to punish Nefer-ka-ptah.
- Thoth caused his son and wife to drown on the way back to their home. He then caused Nefer-ka-ptah to drown himself, but he tied the book to himself.
- Funny thing was that he was buried with the book that he wanted so dearly.
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