Week 5 Reading Diary: Ancient Egyptian Myths and Stories

For my reading diary this week I decided to focus on Ancient Egyptian Myths and Stories. The selection of stories is from Mackenzie's Egyptian Myth and Legend, and it includes both mythology and folklore. The book consists of the retelling of Egyptian legends, and not direct translations of the ancient Egyptian texts. 

(The God Ra)

Creation: I personally found this story very interesting because I saw it as kind of a directory of all of the Gods and Goddesses in ancient Egypt. The story really introduced a lot of Gods and Goddesses and told what they are known for. Since I am not very familiar with ancient Egypt, this was extremely helpful for me. Ra is the Creator and he is overall the most important person because according to Egyptians he made Earth and Heaven and pretty much gave us life. To me he is the most interesting God of all.

The Sun’s Journey: the story began in kind of a dark manner speaking of slaughter and I was not really sure what to expect for the remainder of the story. When I think of the sun God I think of happiness so I was taken a little off guard. The story took a huge turn when it showed Ra getting praise from everyone and all of the higher ups. It shows that he is loved and is the light and the happiness that I expected him to be. Overall, the story was pretty challenging for me to understand. Like I said above I am not familiar with ancient Egyptian stories so reading the language was challenging for me.