A look at the magic-filled legends of Ancient Egyptian tomb raider and wizard Prince Setne, a character based on the son of Ramesses II, who goes on a tomb-raiding journey to acquire a magical book. And it’s the prequel to the stories about his 12-year-old boy wizard son, Se-Osiris.
Setne I, or Setne Khamwas and Naneferkaptah, is a story that’s survived on papyrus from Ptolemaic Egypt. It tells the story of a wizard who descends into a tomb to collect a book written by the god Thoth, only to find it guarded by ghosts. Indiana Jones-style hijinks ensue.
Highlights include:
• An eternal snake (ouroboros)
• A magical glowing book hidden inside a series of boxes
• The ancient city of Memphis, Egypt
• The wrath of Thoth
• A look at different types of Ancient Egyptian writing systems
Note: This episode contains brief mentions of drowning, suicide, incest, soliciting sex for money, killing children, and disinterring corpses
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Sources consulted RE:
Books RE:
Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends By Lewis Spence (1915):
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43662/43662-h/43662-h.htmAncient Egyptian Literature Vol III by Miriam Lichtheim (1973):
https://archive.org/details/MiriamLichtheimAncientEgyptianLiteratureVolIII/page/n67/mode/2up
Websites RE:
- https://www.ancient.eu/article/1054/the-tales-of-prince-setna/https://www.ancient.eu/article/1056/setna-i-a-detailed-summary–commentary/
- https://www.ancient.eu/Khaemweset/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Egyptian_language
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_hieroglyphs
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieratichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demotic_(Egyptian)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_languagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Catholic_Church
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stonehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Egypt#Greek_rule
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatrahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_Kingdom
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Dynasty_of_Egypt
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_the_Great
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerxes_I
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt_(Roman_province)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep_(The_Mummy)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duat
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammit
- http://www.egyptianmyths.net/mythsealletr.htm
- http://www.perankhgroup.com/The%20Sealed%20Letter%20-%20Se%20osiris.htm
- http://www.egyptianmyths.net/section-myths.htm
- https://www.ancient.eu/article/1057/setna-ii-a-detailed-summary–commentary/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptah
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Egypt
- https://www.ancient.eu/article/885/egyptian-gods—the-complete-list/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneadhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thothhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboroshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osirishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crook_and_flail
- http://ib205.tripod.com/setne_2.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris
- https://www.ancient.eu/article/1054/the-tales-of-prince-setna/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Magical_Papyri
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_Setne_Khamwas_and_Si-Osire
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaemweset
- https://www.thetorah.com/article/yhwhs-war-against-the-egyptian-sun-god-ra
- http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/magic.htm
- http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=next_topic;f=15;t=002869;go=older
- http://www.attalus.org/egypt/setne.html
- http://vr.theatre.ntu.edu.tw/hlee/course/th6_520/sty_egy/minor/seallet.htm
- https://amp.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/dcpm06/in_the_story_of_se_osiris_we_discover_ancient/
- https://www.ancient.eu/article/1054/the-tales-of-prince-setna/
- https://books.google.com/books?id=5z3CAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT336&ots=gonD6AeP9c&dq=se-osiris&pg=PT336#v=onepage&q=se-osiris&f=false
- https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/mortuary-mask-khaemwaset
- https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/bas-relief-prince-khaemwaset
- https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3441
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah15225
- https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/46579
- http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=1096
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG54170
- https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100035505
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/death_sakkara_gallery_04.shtml
- http://www.joanannlansberry.com/fotoart/brklyn/khaemwaset.html
- http://carlos.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/items/show/8035
- https://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/prince-khaemwasets-signature-deposits-being-part-of-history/
- https://www.academia.edu/1042964/_Khaemwaset_in_The_Encyclopedia_of_Ancient_History_Blackwell_2013_
- http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/roscicrucian/pages/rosicrucian%20museum%2C%20San%20Jose%2C%20May-2005%2C%20259.htm
- http://www.digitalsculpture.org/egypt/main/model/d5b9dfb529b94903974f748c2b315829
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Thoth
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