The Shipwrecked Sailor — North Africa & Maghreb (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel four thousand years into ancient Egypt, where a sailor survives a wave that takes his ship and wakes alone on an island filled with every good thing. Then the ground shakes, the trees bend, and a giant serpent with golden scales comes toward him carrying a story of loss of his own.
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Source & tradition: Ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom literature, preserved in the single hieratic manuscript Papyrus Hermitage 1115, circa 2000–1900 BCE. James P. Allen identifies it…
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