Cuentos del antiguo Egipto

In this book, Lancelyn Green recounts, with the same clarity and rigor that made his accounts of Greece and Troy so memorable, the myths and legends of one of history's most fascinating cultures. Egypt has always been a land full of magic and mystery, a country unlike any other; distant, strange, and difficult to understand, it dazzles us and evokes a powerful attraction. Of all the regions of the ancient world, it was the most self-sufficient: its customs and beliefs were distinct, and its legends arose independently, without the influence of other civilizations. With his masterful ability to intertwine history and mythology, Lancelyn Green achieves, through brief narratives, a complete, yet accessible and rigorous, portrait of Egyptian culture. These stories include the great myths: that of Ra the Luminous, who created all the creatures of the world; or that of the wondrous sorceress Isis, who searched the waters of the Nile for her deceased husband, Osiris; But there are also tales like "The Book of Thoth," which granted its reader the power to rule heaven and earth or understand the language of birds and beasts; or "The Girl in the Red Shoes," the earliest version of the Cinderella story. Gods, sorceresses, and heroes journey through these pages from the world of the living to the profound Tuat, where the souls of the dead dwell. And, with their feats and wonders, they transmit to us the same powerful enchantment they did more than thirty centuries ago.