Week 6 Story: The Book of Knowledge
This story is now part of my Portfolio and it can be found here at this link: Book of Knowledge.
There was once an Egyptian Pharaoh named Nefer-Ka-ptah. He was blessed with the gift of Knowledge. He knew all the magic in the world, understood all languages even the languages of the animals. He knew of every human, creature, and monster who ever walked the earth. With this knowledge he created the most powerful and richest empire the world had ever seen. On his deathbed, Nefer-Ka-ptah, told his most trusted servant to help him put a spell on his tomb. This spell would allow Nefer-Ka-ptah to come back to life and rule once more. Nefer-Ka-ptah was buried with the most extraordinary treasure there ever was. And with this treasure laid the book of knowledge, which would give anyone who reads it all the knowledge of the world. However, Nefer-ka-ptah was not the only one with magic. The gods were furious with Nefer-ka-ptah for trying to find a loophole out of death. They blessed him with the gift of knowledge and instead of being thankful Kefer-ka-ptah wanted to become the most powerful creature there ever was, even as powerful as the gods. Therefore, the gods came together and hid Nefer-ka-ptah’s tomb with boobee traps, obstacles and a huge labyrinth of doors and tunnels. The gods did this so that no mortal human would ever be able to reach the tomb. If a human did, then Nefer-ka-ptah’s spell would be initiated and he would be able to come back to life.
Thousands of years passed by, and the all-knowing Nefer-ka-ptah and is wondrous treasure become nothing more than a myth, told to scare little children.
Most children who would hear the story were obsessed with the enormous treasure of gold and jewels that was greater then their wildest imagination. But the book of knowledge entranced one child who heard this story. His name was Nathan. Nathan thought he could use that knowledge to help fix all the brokenness and sorrow in the world. And if you could do that no one would need all the gold and jewels for everything and everyone would be whole and content.
Many years later, Nathan had grown up and became an archeologist. For being as young as he was he had a lot of impressive excavation sites he had discovered. However, he was still desperately searching for the tomb of Nefer-ka-ptah, even though that he kept to himself. But it turned out Nathan was a lot closer to his dream then he thought.
“Hey boss! You’re going to want to come take a look this.”
Nathan walks over to the freshly dug eight feet whole, when suddenly his eyes light up. “This is it boys!” Nathan shouted. “We have found the entrance to the tomb that holds all the riches of the world!”
There in the dirt, was a massive doorway leading into a tunnel. Nathan and his team got their supplies together and started on their way down the tunnel. After, about a mile they reached a wide-open room, which had four doorways, each leading to a different tunnel going in different directions. They all split up and went through the different door ways. After many obstacles and creatures they had to get past, such as scorpions, snakes and spiders. Nathan had final reached the tomb of Nefer-ka-ptah. “Now that I finally found what I was looking for, the book of knowledge, how will I use it? Will I really be able to make a positive impact on this world or be consumed by knowing all there ever was?” Nathan thought to himself. Then with a deep breath he said, “I have come this far and there is no turning back now. What ever is men to be will be.” Then he opened the book and began to read, “Chapter One: The Languages of the world……….”
Author’s Note:
The story The Book of Thoth from the Egyptian Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie is about a prince named Nefer-ka-ptah. Nefer-ka-ptah embarks on a journey for the Book of Thoth, which holds all the magic and knowledge of the world. Nefer-ka-ptah must travel far and defeat multiple beasts such as a massive serpent in order to obtain the book. In my story I stayed with the same theme but wanted to bring the story into a more modern era. I did this by having Nefer-ka-ptah’s story be a legend that happened thousands of years ago. In which my main character Nathan is entranced with and in turn sets out to find the all knowing book, just like prince Nefer-ka-ptah did in the original story.
Bibliography: The Book of Thoth from Egyptian Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie. Link to original story.
There was once an Egyptian Pharaoh named Nefer-Ka-ptah. He was blessed with the gift of Knowledge. He knew all the magic in the world, understood all languages even the languages of the animals. He knew of every human, creature, and monster who ever walked the earth. With this knowledge he created the most powerful and richest empire the world had ever seen. On his deathbed, Nefer-Ka-ptah, told his most trusted servant to help him put a spell on his tomb. This spell would allow Nefer-Ka-ptah to come back to life and rule once more. Nefer-Ka-ptah was buried with the most extraordinary treasure there ever was. And with this treasure laid the book of knowledge, which would give anyone who reads it all the knowledge of the world. However, Nefer-ka-ptah was not the only one with magic. The gods were furious with Nefer-ka-ptah for trying to find a loophole out of death. They blessed him with the gift of knowledge and instead of being thankful Kefer-ka-ptah wanted to become the most powerful creature there ever was, even as powerful as the gods. Therefore, the gods came together and hid Nefer-ka-ptah’s tomb with boobee traps, obstacles and a huge labyrinth of doors and tunnels. The gods did this so that no mortal human would ever be able to reach the tomb. If a human did, then Nefer-ka-ptah’s spell would be initiated and he would be able to come back to life.
Thousands of years passed by, and the all-knowing Nefer-ka-ptah and is wondrous treasure become nothing more than a myth, told to scare little children.
Most children who would hear the story were obsessed with the enormous treasure of gold and jewels that was greater then their wildest imagination. But the book of knowledge entranced one child who heard this story. His name was Nathan. Nathan thought he could use that knowledge to help fix all the brokenness and sorrow in the world. And if you could do that no one would need all the gold and jewels for everything and everyone would be whole and content.
Many years later, Nathan had grown up and became an archeologist. For being as young as he was he had a lot of impressive excavation sites he had discovered. However, he was still desperately searching for the tomb of Nefer-ka-ptah, even though that he kept to himself. But it turned out Nathan was a lot closer to his dream then he thought.
“Hey boss! You’re going to want to come take a look this.”
Nathan walks over to the freshly dug eight feet whole, when suddenly his eyes light up. “This is it boys!” Nathan shouted. “We have found the entrance to the tomb that holds all the riches of the world!”
There in the dirt, was a massive doorway leading into a tunnel. Nathan and his team got their supplies together and started on their way down the tunnel. After, about a mile they reached a wide-open room, which had four doorways, each leading to a different tunnel going in different directions. They all split up and went through the different door ways. After many obstacles and creatures they had to get past, such as scorpions, snakes and spiders. Nathan had final reached the tomb of Nefer-ka-ptah. “Now that I finally found what I was looking for, the book of knowledge, how will I use it? Will I really be able to make a positive impact on this world or be consumed by knowing all there ever was?” Nathan thought to himself. Then with a deep breath he said, “I have come this far and there is no turning back now. What ever is men to be will be.” Then he opened the book and began to read, “Chapter One: The Languages of the world……….”
Author’s Note:
The story The Book of Thoth from the Egyptian Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie is about a prince named Nefer-ka-ptah. Nefer-ka-ptah embarks on a journey for the Book of Thoth, which holds all the magic and knowledge of the world. Nefer-ka-ptah must travel far and defeat multiple beasts such as a massive serpent in order to obtain the book. In my story I stayed with the same theme but wanted to bring the story into a more modern era. I did this by having Nefer-ka-ptah’s story be a legend that happened thousands of years ago. In which my main character Nathan is entranced with and in turn sets out to find the all knowing book, just like prince Nefer-ka-ptah did in the original story.
Bibliography: The Book of Thoth from Egyptian Myth and Legend by Donald Mackenzie. Link to original story.
Hi Sydney!
ReplyDeleteI really like what you did with the story. You turned an old story into a new story by having new characters make the same discovery, which is so cool! i have never read the original story, but this was a great way to show readers what the original story was about. You developed Nathan's character really good as well! Nice job!
Hi again Sydney! Wow, this was such a creative story. My favorite part was the concept of knowledge being so powerful. I think you did a great job in creating a sophisticated tale. I also liked how you developed Nathan’s character into be an archeologist. I thought this was a nice touch along with his interest in bettering the world. Well done!
ReplyDeleteHi Sydney.
ReplyDeleteI really like this story. I like how you took an old story, and incorporated a new story also. Knowledge is very powerful, and that's a great concept to center a story around. Does Nathan want to do good for the world, or is he a power hungry dictator? I got the impression that he wants to do good for the world, but I was thinking they hid the book because they knew that much knowledge for once person was dangerous. Great story! I enjoyed it.
Hi Sydney!
ReplyDeleteI thought this story was really interesting. It was also completely relevant to my life because my boyfriend is obsessed with the Indiana Jones movies and made me sit through one the other night :)
Anyways, I liked the intro of the story but I think you could do so much more with all the action that you skipped over! It sounded like that tomb was supposed to be pretty hard to get to but we didn't get to see any of the struggle! Showing instead of telling could be really beneficial here! Just a suggestion!
Good luck with the rest of your semester!!
You did a great job at setting your story in a modern era without changing the original entirely. I have never heard of the original but it seemed to be an interesting tale. I like that Nathan has good intentions for the book and has dedicated his career to finding it. I like the cliff hanger and I’ll definitely be checking out your portfolio to find out what happened next. Great job on this story!
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