Africa and the Middle East

2. Africa and the Middle East Maggie Lepley, Andrew Jenkins, and Tyrik Rome

3. Creation Myth • Three different myths in different towns in Egypt most well know • Hermopolis • Myth of Ogdoad or eigth, 4 pairs of primeval deities.Frogs or serpents that later evolved. Nun and Nunette became water. Hek and Heket became space. Kek and Keket became darkness. Amun and Amunette became hiddenness. • Heliopolis • Earliest creation myth: the ENNEAD. It’s four generations of detites. Arises spontaneously from waters of chaos and magically impregnates himself. • Mephis • Third View of creation myth creator-god, PTAH, created everything by saying its name • Remer, Pat-Egyptian Mythology A-Z,: A young Readers Companion Facts On File, Inc: New York 2000.

4. Liberator- Moses • Great military and political leaders who free an entire country or people from sevitude • Moses returned to Egypt • Lead the exodus of the Jewish people out of Egypt for freedom

5. Warrior- Manluks • Protects emotional boundaries and assert out needs in the world. • Slave soldier who converted to Islam • Served the Muslim Caliphs and the Alyubid sultans during the middle ages

6. The Femme Fatale- Cleopatra • A woman of great seductive charm who leads men into compromising or dangerous situations. • She tried to use seduction to get her fathers throne back after his death • Bored a child with Julius Caesar and bored three children with Mark Anthony • She killed herself with the bite of a snake because Anthony stabbed himself to death

7. Rebel- Sparticus • A person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of his or her country • Most notable leader of the slaves in the Third Serville war • A major slave uprising against the Roman Public

8. The Begger- Makdun • Emperor was praying to Allah for money and riches, then was begging people to take it from him • “so you pray to Almighty Allah for what you want and let me pray to him for the things I need. You and I are just beggers. Let us beg for irrespective things to the one who really has them”

9. The Father • A man in relation with his natural child or children • First Patriarch of Israel, Also the Father of the Arabs. In which he built the Kaaba

10. The Good Samaritan • A charitable or helpful person • “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jerhico, When he was attacked by robbers” • Luke 10:30-37

11. Messiah • Most important figure of the western civilization • Magnetic teacher • Healer and preacher

12. The Damsel • Vulnerable girl who needs rescued but if not happy in the end she needs to learn to care for herself • Princess Jasmine wants to go out into the city and get out of the palace. Then she has to face the reality of a princess for by law has to marry the prince

13. The Orphan Child- • Reflected on the lives of people who feel as if they don’t belong with their families. • Thereupon the pharaoh of Egypt declared his people to throw all new born Hebrew children in the Nile. Moses’ mother put mosses in a basket and placed him in the river reeds where the princess spotted mosses and adopted him

14. The Storyteller- Scheherazade • Expected to tell stories and sing stories as a way to entertain and to pass on the news for the day • Scheherazade told of 1001 Arabian tales including Arabian Nights

15. The Hero - David • The one who confronted a difficult path for him to gain his manhood • David went to check on his brothers during a battle. Not soon after did he beg King Saul to let him fight the giant Goliath until Saul gave in. Then David and got some small rocks to sling with his sling shot. After retrieving the rocks David loaded and fired the slingshot and hit Goliath in the forehead killing him.

16. Totems • An item that symbolizes another • Can be found all over Africa and have there own interperations and regional symbles and are based on universal priciples

17. Relationships • The Golden Griffins of India and Pakistan • Femme fatle is Ctenptless which is like our Cleopatra • Warrior- white lion Mongol warriors like our Mankuls

18. Relationships cont… • The scarlet Titans from Greece and Rome • They have Achilles and we have Spartacus but Achilles would only fight those he thought willing to fight him when Spartacus not

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