Homework of History of Art
At the beginning of the great Egyptian empire the gods granted to a faithful serviceable the blessing of giving birth to three twin daughters on a night of a bright Moon that was announcing the good crop.
The children grew up and became beautiful young ladies of identical appearance but with distant hearts.
One day in the morning, many years later, the sister of nobler heart was picking the wheat when she saw a cat passing quickly near her legs with a shade in its pursuit. A great and terrible bird pursued the feline that hopelessly tried to escape from that murder aim.
The lady who possessed the gods’ blessing, took a stone and flung it against the stranger and gigantic bird when it ambushed the small cat in a palm tree, frightening the monster. She couldn’t know that kitten was the pharaoh’s talisman and that he had watching all the action, because he had left his stronghold to looking for his amulet around the four sides of his kingdom.
The pharaoh fell in love with the young lady and took her as his wife at the end of that week. And the crop was good.
Unable to support the sister’s happiness, the sister blessed by the gods with the humanity’s most obscure feelings, screamed for revenge, for her pride and she was assisted. That night the bird of deformed lines appeared at her window and gave her a fruit capable to disfigure the men’s heart through the eyes, a fruit that promised the eternal life to those who eat it. The sister that had the wisest and peaceful heart tried to argue with the revengeful, but she found her death in the tip of a lance.
In that same dawn the envy penetrated the defenses of the pharaoh’s house by disguise herself of his wife and found him in vigil at the opening west, contemplating the stars.
Offered him the fruit with the promise that they will be together forever, united by the immortality. The semi-god let himself to be seduced for the human feeling and took a piece of the fruit with his teeth allowing his life to fall in the darkness.
On the next day he was found without the beats of the heart and his wife was taken by murderess.
The great king was buried in the largest pyramid built in that time and the blessed young lady was throwing to the crocodiles of Nile.
Two nights have passed before the pharaoh wake up inside his sacred sarcophagus. Took a while to understand what had happened. Then, in his heart, he believe that was betrayed by the one the loved most. He cursed the kingdom, its origin and that disastrous feeling
He never died. He stays prisoner, alone, inflamed of hate and revenge vows, screaming without be heard, except for that gloomy illustration of a bird that looks after its most valuable prey, until our present day.
by MBSC
