The Two Brothers (2 of 5) Her husband said to her: Who has had words with you? She said to him: No one has had words with me except your young brother. When he came to take seed to you, he found me sitting alone. He said to me: Come, let us spend an hour lying together; loosen your braids. So he said to me. But I would not listen to him. Am I not your mother? Is your elder brother not like a father to you? So I said to him. He became frightened and he beat , so as to prevent me from telling you. Now if you let him live, I shall die! Look, when he returns, do [not let him live]! For I am ill from this evil design which he was about to carry out in the morning. Then his elder brother became like a leopard. He sharpened his spear and took it in his hand. Then his elder stood behind the door his stable, in order to kill his young brother when he came in the evening to let his cattle enter the stable. Now when the sun had set he loaded himself with all the plants of the field according to his daily custom. He returned, and as the lead cow was about to enter the stable she said to her herdsman: Here is your elder brother waiting for you with his spear in order to kill you. Run away from him. He heard what his lead cow said, and when another went in she said the same. He looked under the door of his stable and saw the feet of his elder brother as he stood behind the door with his spear in his hand. He set his load on the ground and took off at a run so as to flee. And his elder brother went after him with his spear. Then his young brother prayed to Pra-Harakhti, saying: My good lord! It is you who judge between the wicked and the just! And Pra heard all his plea; and Pra made a great body of water appear between him and his elder brother, and it was full of crocodiles. Thus one came to be on the one side, and the other on the other side. And his elder brother struck his won hand twice, because he had failed to kill him. Then his young brother called top him on this side, saying: Wait here until dawn! When Aten has risen, I shall contend with you before him; and he will hand over the wicked to the just! For I shall not be with you any more. I shall not be in the place in which you are. I shall go to the Valley of the Pine. Now when it dawned and another day had come, and Pra-Harakhti had risen, one gazed at the other. Then the youth rebuked his elder brother, saying: What is your coming after me to kill me wrongfully, without having listened to my words? For I am yet your young brother, and you are like a father to me, and your wife is like a mother to me. Is it not so that when I was sent to fetch seed for us your wife said to me: Come, let us spend an hour lying together? But look, it has been turned about for you into another thing. Then he let him know all that had happened between him and his wife. And he swore by Pra-Harakhti, saying: As to your coming to kill me wrongfully, you carried your spear on the testimony of a filthy whore! Then he took a reed knife, cut off his phallus, and threw it into the water; and the catfish swallowed it. And he grew weak and became feeble. And his elder brother became sick at heart and stood weeping for him loudly. He could not cross over to where his young brother was on account of the crocodiles. Then his young brother called to him, saying: If you recall something evil, will you not also recall something good, or something that I have done for you? Go back to your home and tend your cattle, for I shall not stay in the place where you are. I shall go to the Valley of the Pine. But what you shall do for me is to come and look after me, when you learn that something has happened to me. I shall take out my heart and place it on top of the blossom of the pine. If the pine is cut down and falls to the ground, you shall come to search for it. If you spend seven years searching for it, let your heart not be disgusted. And when you find it and place it in a bowl of cool water, I shall live to take revenge on him who wronged me. You will know that something has happened to me when one puts a jug of beer in our hand and it ferments. Do not delay at all when this happens to you. htp
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 12:45:30 +0000
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