![]() ![]() ![]() I wonder if this Cretan Ophiotauros has any basis in ancient legends, or if it's entirely Waltari's invention.Ģ Wikipedia contributors. Sinuhe loses his mind from grief, but Kaptah finally succeeds in calming him down and convinces him to realize that it's best to move on and return to Syria. He finds her dead body and the remains of the Cretan god (described as a bull-headed sea serpent), and realises that she has been killed by the god's high priest Minotaurus to prevent Minea from returning and tell the god is dead. A while after Minea has been escorted into the mountain cave, Sinuhe enters the cave to search for Minea. In the evening before Minea should enter the mountain cave, they marry each other unofficially. ![]() Sinuhe is horrified by this and fears that he will not see Minea again. Minea has grown up with the mission to sacrifice herself as a virgin to the local bull god who lives in a mountain cave at the sea. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world’s history: an Egypt when pharaohs. Here's a quick summary of the time Sinuhe, the novel's protagonist, spends in Minoan Crete 2: First published in the 1940s and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other American novel published that same year, and remains a classic readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. Mika Waltari's excellent historical novel The Egyptian, set in Ancient Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten 1, features a bull-headed sea serpent Cretan god. ![]()
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