Ancient Egyptian Myth Legend story: Women sandals Red Rose.

Ancient Egyptian Myth Legend story: Women sandals Red Rose.

Maybe this is the first Cinderella story told in this world. Is western poet plagiarized from this story? we do not know for sure, but this story is a mythology that tells the story in the final period of the kingdom of Ancient Egypt.
End of empire in ancient Egypt, only a few decades before the kingdom was conquered by Persia, Egypt was ruled by a kingdom named Pharaoh Amasis.Amasis realizes that his kingdom in the face of danger under the leadership of Cyrus the Persian invasion that is currently dominating the world, therefore, to strengthen his country he forged an alliance with Greece to welcoming as many Greek citizens who want to settle and trade in Egypt. Amasis even gives a region named for the Greek settlers Naucratis to be their own territory.
Naucratis is not far from the mouth of the Nile which flows into the sea at Canopus there lived a wealthy merchant named Charaxos of Greece, and he was from the island of Lesbos in Greece. Famous poetess Sappho was his sister, but he spent his age by trading in Egypt and his future he settled in Naucratis.
On one day Charaxos underway in a market and see where there are crowds of people gathered in place buying and selling of slaves. Because of her curiosity enough to make her big stepped toward the crowd, and he saw that the people there are middle noticed a very beautiful woman who is locked in a cage of stone for sale.The woman appears to a woman from Greece because of his fair skin and rosy cheeks like roses broke, Charaxos can only hold his breath because he had never seen a woman as beautiful as it was before.As a result, when the auction begins, Charaxos memangkan determined that he should be able to purchase the auction for the woman, because he is the richest among all merchant traders in Naucratis, he managed to win the auction process without much difficulty.
After successfully bringing the woman home, Charaxos knowing that she named Rhodopis who claimed that he had been kidnapped by a gang of pirates from his home in northern Greece when he was a child. Then the rover gangs sell on Samos island rich man who had many slaves.Rhodopis grew up on the island, he had a friend who was also a slave, a smallish man named Aesop and ugly face. Aesop was kind where he often tells stories such alluring tales of birds, animals and humans to Rhodopis.But when Rhodopis have master adulthood want to earn money by selling the girl to Naucritus to be bought by rich men there.
Charaxos listen to the story of the girl carefully and feel very sorry for the fate of the girl. Charaxos be crazy Rhodopis, he gave a very beautiful house with a girl in the park in the middle of the house, it also gives Rhodopis female slaves to serve as ladies in waiting are ready to serve the girls and always give good gifts The accessories and clothes are luxurious and pampering Rhodopis as if she was his own daughter.
One day a strange incident which occurred amid Rhodopis marble bath in a pond in a secret garden located in the midst of his house. The slave woman holding clothes while keeping Rhodopis jewelry includes red roses her favorite sandals. Rhodopis lazing pond filled with cold water heated by very hot day in Egypt, especially the North section of Egypt are very hot.Suddenly when everything seems to be calm and peaceful, a hawk suddenly came swooping down from the clear blue sky attacked collection slaves who were at the edge of the pool, the slave woman's terrified scream and dropped all that they hold, they run themselves to hide among the trees and flowers there is the garden.Rhodopis got up from the pool and stood with his back to the back of the marble tub shower, she stared with eyes wide with shock.
But the eagle did not care about anyone, but he just swooped and took the next pair of sandals belonging Rhodopis red roses then soared into the air with great wings and he grabbed the slippers flew above the river pours into the valley nil.
Rhodopis was sad and crying because it lost a pair sandals because he was convinced that he probably will not get again the pair of sandals, and also sorry because he had lost valuables given by Charaxos him.
But the eagle seems like it has been sent by the gods, perhaps by Horus in which he also symbolized as a bird. The bird flew straight following the river Nile to Memphis, and then the bird swooped down toward the palace.
At that time the Pharaoh was in court to prosecute the people and listen to the complaints filed by citizens.The eagle swooped down and suddenly dropped and sandals belonging Rhodopis lap Pharaoh.The people who were gathered squealing and fear of watching it as a hawk suddenly swooped down towards them, Amasis itself was also shocked shocked about it. But when he picked up a red rose sandals that he admired the workmanship is very fine for a small item. Pharaoh Amasis feel that a pair of legs wearing sandals is a woman who must necessarily have a beautiful pair of legs and a beautiful woman in the world.
Shortly afterwards, bowled by the next pair of sandals, Amasis issued decrit which reads:"The envoys I will enter all the cities in both the Delta and if necessary up to Upper Egypt to the borders of my kingdom. Together they will carry pairs of sandals red roses next to the bird which by god Horus has given to me and they will test that who owns the foot of this sandal will be the wife of Pharaoh! "Then the Pharaoh delegates bowed and said, "Living Pharaoh, good sense of humor, and the power of the Pharaoh! Pharaoh has spoken and his orders will be obeyed"
Then the messenger of the Pharaoh towards Heliopolis left Memphis, Tanis and Canopus until finally they reached the Naucratis. There they heard about the existence of a rich brother named Charaxos which he had bought a very beautiful woman of Greece in the slave market, they have heard also how Charaxos spoil her with all his wealth as if she was a princess guarded by the gods.
The envoy then headed home Charaxos located on the banks of the Nile. There they encounter Rhodopis who was in his garden on the edge of the pool.Short stories while the messenger showed his next pair of sandals lost stolen by birds eagle, screaming Rhodopis pleasure because he knows that it is next to hers pairs of sandals that have been found. Then Rhodopis give her to clothe these sandals are sandals that are appropriate at his feet. Rhodopis then call a female slave to fetch another pair of slippers next to it which he kept carefully in a box after her experience strange events with an eagle that suddenly take the next pair of sandals.
Then the delegates realized that this is the girl who should they find such command Pharaoh to them, then they all knelt down and said, "Good Lord Pharaoh Amasis, life, health and strength to Pharaoh! Soar you soon come to his palace at Memphis.'s Where you will be treated with the utmost respect and given the highest position in his harem, because he believed Horus, son of Isis and Osiris and sent an eagle to bring sandals red rose, which he led for you "
The command can not be denied, because it is a commandment of Pharaoh of Egypt's ruler, Rhodopis say goodbye to Chraxos, which the man feels torn between joy to the good fortune that had Rhodopis he considered as his own son, but he was also sad to part with Rhodopis, who went to Memphis.
While Rhodopis arrived in Memphis, Amasis was fascinated by her beauty, he believes that God had sent this woman for him, he did not bring this woman into his harem location Rhodopis but he took as his queen, consort of the Egyptian kingdom.Like the other romantic classic tale, the two live happily for the rest of their lives, and they died just a year before the invasion by the Persians into Egypt.
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