He follows Bata's instructions and puts the heart in a bowl of cold water. He searches for his brother's heart for three years and then another four years, finding it after searching for seven years. They do so, and Bata dies.Īnpu then receives a frothy jar of beer and sets off to the Valley of the Cedar. When the pharaoh succeeds in bringing her to live with him, she tells him to cut down the tree in which Bata has put his heart. Because of her divine creation, Bata's wife is sought after by the pharaoh. Khnum, the god frequently depicted in Egyptian mythology as having fashioned humans on a potters' wheel, creates a wife for Bata. Bata comes upon the Ennead, or the principal Egyptian deities, who take pity on him. Meanwhile, Bata is establishing a life in the Valley of the Cedar, building a new home for himself. After hearing of his brother's plan, Anpu returns home and kills his wife.

Bata tells Anpu that if he is ever given a jar of beer that froths, he should know to seek out his brother. To emphasize his sincerity, Bata severs his genitalia and throws them into the water, where a catfish eats them.īata states that he is going to the Valley of Cedars, where he will place his heart on the top of the blossom of a cedar tree, so that if it is cut down Anpu will be able to find it and allow Bata to become alive again. The god creates a crocodile-infested lake between the two brothers, across which Bata is finally able to appeal to his brother and share his side of the events. In response to this, Anpu attempts to kill Bata, who flees and prays to Re-Harakhti to save him. When he strongly rejects her advances, the wife tells her husband that his brother attempted to seduce her and beat her when she refused.

One day, Anpu's wife attempts to seduce Bata. The brothers work together, farming land and raising cattle. The story centers around two brothers: Anpu ( Anubis), who is married, and the younger Bata. Extract from the Tale of the Two Brothers.

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