SBCC Myths and Realities of Ancient Egypt Discussion

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Your first paragraph has several options and foci: 1. Interpret the character and nature of Isis and Ra, in the “The Secret Name of Ra” in both the story-teller and the Wallis Budge versions (see PDF 1 this week and the professor’s lecture); 2. Summarize and discuss the most interesting things you came across in Pinch’s “Introduction” and “The Myth of Egypt: Imagined Egypts” from Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction; 3. Interpret Akhenaten’s “Hymn to the Sun” in light of the provided free-verse translation and Asante’s chapter on Akhenaten, where you’ll find a prose translations (PDF 2 this week); 4. Elaborate on the theme of carpe diem, or “seize the day” (remember Good Will Hunting?) in “The Harper’s Song” (PDF 2 this week) and compare this in detail to Siduri’s advice to Gilgamesh. 

Your second paragraph should be on Asante’s afrocentrist reading of Egyptian myth, religion, and philosophy from “Preface” and “The African Mind” in the first PDF this week, and then, from the second PDF, on Maat, the goddess of truth, order, justice, balance, and harmony. Possible foci include: Maatian ethics, the critique of eurocentrism and the meaning of afrocentrism, the elements of the African mind vs. the Western mind, Asante’s analysis of Egyptian cosmogonic myth in terms of “the first occasion” and “the realm of divinities”, the meaning of individual deities and Kemetic terms, the Ennead vs. the Ogdoad, Asante on Ptah, the Word, and primordial utterance as belonging to Maat, the Maatic quest as the hero’s journey, and the notion of Maatian communion vs. money economy.