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The Egyptian

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76 feature instances
16 referencing feature instances

The Egyptian	type	TVTItem
The Egyptian	label	The Egyptian
The Egyptian	page	TheEgyptian
The Egyptian	comment	The Egyptian (or Sinuhe the Egyptian) is a historical novel by Mika Waltari first published in Finland in 1945. It details the life-story of an Egyptian doctor named Sinuhe, and his interactions with others during the turbulent reign of Akhenaten during the 18th dynasty.The story is told via the Framing Device of Sinuhe writing down his memoirs; as this clever device allows for plenty of room for doubts as to his reliability, the novel is an impressive example of combining both Shown Their Work and Science Marches On: much of what Waltari writes was considered the best historical knowledge of his day, although much has also been reevaluated by modern historians. The main character of the book is named for the protagonist of a story called The Story of Sinuhe who overhears a secret and has to leave Egypt. The parallels to the protagonist of the novel is noted by characters inside the story.Sinuhe's story begins when he is found as a baby floating down the Nile in a reed boat; he grows up to become a doctor, and in the process, he meets and befriends Pharaoh Akhenaten, as well as General Horemheb. After losing all his possessions to a woman, he escapes into exile, where he spends his time spying and learning in various foreign lands. In Babylon, he meets and sets free a woman named Minea destined for human sacrifice on Crete; after her death, Sinuhe returns to Egypt and becomes embroiled in the conflict between the king with his new god Aten and the old priesthood of Amun. Eventually, Sinuhe poisons Pharaoh, and Horemheb becomes ruler of Egypt, although first under a succession of puppet-rulers. Finally, Sinuhe confronts Horemheb over his various misdeeds and is sent into exile again, where he writes down his life's story.Sadly, the only English language version available of the novel is an abridged version, which cuts the original 900+ page novel down to 500+ pages. The complete novel has been translated unabridged to several other languages though.The novel was made into a 1954 20th Century Fox film starring Edmund Purdom as Sinuhe, Michael Wilding as Akenaten, Bella Darvi as Nefer, Jean Simmons as Merit, Victor Mature as Horemheb, and Peter Ustinov (doing his usual scene-stealing) as Kapteh. It is hard to believe that this rather ponderous movie was directed by Michael Curtiz, the director of Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood, and Casablanca. Nevertheless, it has a memorable score by Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Newman. Marilyn Monroe apparently auditioned for the role of Nefer. The movie has some substantial differences from the novel.The book was also adapted into a radio series in the 80's by the Finnish group Radioteatterinote Who also translated The Men from the Ministry. While only available in Finnish, it can be listened for free in YLE Areena.
The Egyptian	fetched	2023-07-20T03:46:47Z
The Egyptian	parsed	2023-07-20T03:46:47Z
The Egyptian	processingComment	Dropped link to Aesop: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
The Egyptian	processingComment	Dropped link to LoveableRogue: Not a Feature - IGNORE
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The Egyptian / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
The Egyptian / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Extreme example. Nefer's allure on Sinuhe is so strong (or young Sinuhe is so dumbass, if not both) that he gives her everything he has, his family house and even his parents' future graves only to get laid with her. Which, to top matters, she then refuses to do.
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The Egyptian / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Egyptian / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Sinuhe has a really bad one, when Minea dies. It hit him so hard, that he actually sank into an alcoholic, self-harming, nearly suicidal depression for several months, before Kaptah gives him some Epiphany Therapy. He has another one when his son dies.
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The Egyptian / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Egyptian / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Horemheb claims to have once seen an apparition or a vision that gave him strength and courage. It took the form of a burning bush...
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The Egyptian / int_174b85df	type	Virgin Sacrifice
The Egyptian / int_174b85df	comment	Virgin Sacrifice: In a play on the story of The Minotaur Minea is to be sacrificed to the Cretan God... only God Is Dead now and rather than being sacrificed, she is killed to keep this a secret. Yeah, it's that kind of story.
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The Egyptian / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Egyptian / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: As it is trapped on its cave, the Cretan god is said to eat only the human sacrifices they send to him, which amount to one person every month. A carnivorous beast of enough size to leave man-sized dung piles, as Sinuhe finds, could not possibly sustain itself by eating so little (and it is explicitly said it is trapped in the cave, meaning it cannot leave it to feed in open sea). Either the islanders feed it aside from the sacrifices, or the creature is actually supernatural.
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The Egyptian / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
The Egyptian / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: She is usually referred to as Nefernefernefer because "No man can resist, saying my name just once." It doesn't help that the world Nefer can mean "beautiful."
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The Egyptian / int_1b06aa41	type	Villains Never Lie
The Egyptian / int_1b06aa41	comment	Villains Never Lie: Nefer is perfectly honest about her intent to use Sinuhe and then discard him... which is perhaps one of the more obvious points where it becomes clear that we're dealing with an Unreliable Narrator.
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The Egyptian / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Egyptian / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The setting, while accurate for its time and quite enjoyable for itself alone, is a stage on which the true theme of the book - human nature, is presented.
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The Egyptian / int_218b2ee8	type	Ancient Egypt
The Egyptian / int_218b2ee8	comment	Ancient Egypt: Duh
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The Egyptian / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Egyptian / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The Aesop of the story ends on the somewhat existentialist note that you really can't change anything but your own attitude, that people are corrupt and weak, and that the only person who really wished everyone well is completely incapable of grasping this fact, which just ends up making things worse. Another great theme seems to be human naivety, partly personalised in Sinuhe who only later has realisations of his the folly of his actions.
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The Egyptian / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
The Egyptian / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Aside from "beautiful," "Nefer" can mean "good." Oh dear...
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The Egyptian / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Egyptian / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Mostly averted. It is seen as unpleasant but necessary fact of life, that is until Akhenaton comes along...
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The Egyptian / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Egyptian / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The film version cuts out all the pharaohs who reigned between Akhenaten and Horemheb, which includes the famous Tutankhamun.
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The Egyptian / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Egyptian / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: FAR, far on the cynical end of the scale.
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The Egyptian / int_3c502b7c	type	Desert Warfare
The Egyptian / int_3c502b7c	comment	Desert Warfare: Most of the conflicts happen in the desert, which is understandable for the setting.
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The Egyptian / int_3e8c87a3	type	Dated History
The Egyptian / int_3e8c87a3	comment	Dated History: Understandable, considering the book was published in 1945. and with over 70 years of development, our knowledge of ancient Egypt and other cultures had progressed quite substantially. Though at the time of publishing it was praised for its accuracy, and a lot of the book's contents still hold up.
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The Egyptian / int_40212a27	type	Broken Angel
The Egyptian / int_40212a27	comment	Broken Angel: The Cretan god. When Sinuhe gets to see it, it is just the floating corpse of what used to be a magnificent sea creature which people worshipped like a god.
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The Egyptian / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Egyptian / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Many — e.g., Ay, Horemheb, Kaptah, Nefer...
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The Egyptian / int_422f566c	type	Love Freak
The Egyptian / int_422f566c	comment	Love Freak: Akhenaton is a deconstructed example, although in a more subdued manner than most.
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The Egyptian / int_445bc425	type	GreyAndGreyMorality
The Egyptian / int_445bc425	comment	Grey-and-Grey Morality: Very few of the characters can be considered truly or mostly good, same goes for truly evil.
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The Egyptian / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Egyptian / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: At the conclusion, all of Sinuhe's actions end up crushing his dreams, leaving him in bitter exile.
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The Egyptian / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
The Egyptian / int_4e6e9b64	comment	A Child Shall Lead Them: Burraburiash, the king of Babylon, is a young boy.
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The Egyptian / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Egyptian / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: The church of Ammon, in marked contrast to the Saintly Church of Aten. Though the latter is actually far from being completely pure, as some of her priests are described to be too zealous to debate, and Akhenaton and his court orders to do some nasty things in the name of Aten.
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The Egyptian / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
The Egyptian / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: The book has over 900 pages and it is often published in two volumes.
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The Egyptian / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Egyptian / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Sinuhe informs that he got circumcised as a baby by his physician father. In real life, ancient Egyptians got circumcised during their teenage years, as a rite of passage to adulthood, and historians are additionally unsure of whether everybody or only certain people were supposed to get the procedure. Furthermore, the novel makes no mention at all of female circumcision, which was also practiced in ancient Egypt. Unlike examples that can be chalked up to Dated History, those notes are reflected in ancient sources.
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The Egyptian / int_65df51a8	type	That Poor Cat
The Egyptian / int_65df51a8	comment	That Poor Cat: Nefer's, in the film. A Persian with a huge heavy coat. In Egypt. When Sinuhe is advancing on Nefer to kill her, the cat yowls and leaps from her arms.
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The Egyptian / int_675a56a0	type	Crushing the Populace
The Egyptian / int_675a56a0	comment	Crushing the Populace: After a period of religious unrest in Thebes, a mercenary army is dispatched by Horemheb and Eie to quell the new religion, and the results are NOT pretty. This is pretty much the modus operandi for Hittites.
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The Egyptian / int_71ee0f38	type	Beware the Honest Ones
The Egyptian / int_71ee0f38	comment	Beware the Honest Ones: Akhenaton.
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The Egyptian / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Egyptian / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The phrase "so there has ever been and ever will be" (adapted from Ecclesiastes) makes numerous appearances throughout the novel.
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The Egyptian / int_76f0d7a5	type	Historical Fiction
The Egyptian / int_76f0d7a5	comment	Historical Fiction: Set in the 18th dynasty Egypt.
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The Egyptian / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Egyptian / int_77468805	comment	God Is Dead: The Minoan god is rumoured to have died sometime before Sinuhe, Kaptah, and Minea reach Crete. It turns out to be true, as their "god" is some sort of a sea beast that is dead by the event's time.
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The Egyptian / int_7b8f5f07	type	Charm Person
The Egyptian / int_7b8f5f07	comment	Charm Person: It is noted that Akhenaton can make people see the world the way he does. Horemheb notes that, if it were possible just to bring everyone in the world to the Pharaoh so that he could talk to them personally, the world might be changed. We later hear that he'd actually made calculations for trying to achieve this. Nefernefernefer could probably teach Akhenaton some lessons, or rather her boobs could.
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The Egyptian / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
The Egyptian / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: In the film, Judith Evelyn as Queen Mother Taia.
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The Egyptian / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
The Egyptian / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: By the book's end, Sinuhe had sold off his parents' grave for sex, killed Akhenaton, ostensibly to save Egypt but also causing Eie and Horemheb's unlawful ascendancy to the throne, lost two women he loved and his son Thoth, had his home burned, killed a Hittite noble who accepted him courteously, and is finally exiled to never return to Egypt under pain of death because he knows too much by then.
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The Egyptian / int_830f2f0e	type	Police State
The Egyptian / int_830f2f0e	comment	Police State: The land of Hatti. Not in the modern sense, but it is militarised, movement of foreigners is restricted with special permits, criminals are punished severely (for instance, illegal "sorcerers" are impaled on the side of roads), the Hittite king has somewhat dictatorial overtones and its capital Hatussha is mostly closed-off to outsiders.
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The Egyptian / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Egyptian / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: Everything Horemhotep does, except for his marital rape of Baketamon, is done to preserve Egypt from the external threat of its enemies and/or the internal threat of his deluded Stupid Good Pharoah.
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The Egyptian / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Egyptian / int_875615dd	comment	Akhenaten and Nefertiti. This is Truth in Television from everything we know of the royal couple; also that they were Good Parents as you see in the film. Numerous shrine carvings depict them playing with their kids and including them in religious ceremonies.
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The Egyptian / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Egyptian / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Nefer.
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The Egyptian / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Egyptian / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Horemheb and Eie to an extent. Though initially rivals, they realise that one could not rule Egypt without the other as Eie has the priesthood and administarion while Horemheb has the military and the people's adoration.
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The Egyptian / int_9830549e	type	He-Man Woman Hater
The Egyptian / int_9830549e	comment	He-Man Woman Hater: Horemheb.
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The Egyptian / int_99390db0	type	Saintly Church
The Egyptian / int_99390db0	comment	Saintly Church: The church of Aten. A deconstruction in that the novel asks the question of which one is worse.
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The Egyptian / int_99c36bb5	type	Ironic Nursery Tune
The Egyptian / int_99c36bb5	comment	Ironic Nursery Tune: Or rather Ironic Nursery Fairytale. During their "dating," Nefer tells Sinuhe a story of a man who sacrifices everything to his loved one, including killing his wife and children, and as a punishment he gets thrown into a red-hot, steaming oven. Later on, Sinuhe gives Nefer everything he has when trying to win her love. This also includes his family's house and later his parent's tomb when they die in the streets as beggars. And the red-hot, steaming oven is his own guilt when he realizes what he has done
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The Egyptian / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
The Egyptian / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Kaptah was worth less on the slave market for being half-blind, but turns out to be extremely useful.
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The Egyptian / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
The Egyptian / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: Pepitamon, as he cares infinitely more for his garden cats than any warfare matter.
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The Egyptian / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
The Egyptian / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
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The Egyptian / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
The Egyptian / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Kaptah is often nostalgic for the days when he was Sinuhe's slave, although he notes that in part this was because, being a slave, he could move around without being noticed, and because Sinuhe was a relatively good master and usually left him to his own devices anyway.
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The Egyptian / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Egyptian / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Two people end up making it in the book: one is a rapist, the other a ruthless "Greed Is Good" kind of capitalist. Everyone else is either dead or in exile. Nefernefernefer also qualifies, as while Sinuhe has her imprisoned in the House of the Dead, she charms her captors, turns them against each other, and escapes with greater riches than she had before.
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The Egyptian / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Egyptian / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance AND Values Resonance: Waltari has a lot of fun with this.
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The Egyptian / int_b51a2dd8	type	Demythification
The Egyptian / int_b51a2dd8	comment	Demythification: "Minotaur" is portrayed as the name of Crete's high priest, who wears a bull mask a majority of the time, resulting in people mistaking him for an actual human-bull hyrbid when they first meet him in the dim light.
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The Egyptian / int_b532f68b	type	Everybody Has Lots of Sex
The Egyptian / int_b532f68b	comment	Everybody Has Lots of Sex: While the novel is tame by today's standards, a colleague of Waltari was shocked by the high amount of erotic content in it and tried to prevent the book's release.
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The Egyptian / int_b74662b0	type	Devoted to You
The Egyptian / int_b74662b0	comment	Devoted to You: Horemheb to princess Baketamon, though completely not vice versa.
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The Egyptian / int_bb82c453	type	Modern Major General
The Egyptian / int_bb82c453	comment	Modern Major General: Pepitamon, one of Ankhenaton's generals, who is an excellent breeder of cats.
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The Egyptian / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
The Egyptian / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: Kaptah.
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The Egyptian / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Akhenaten and Nefertiti. This is Truth in Television from everything we know of the royal couple; also that they were Good Parents as you see in the film. Numerous shrine carvings depict them playing with their kids and including them in religious ceremonies. Sinuhe and Minea, for the short while it lasted.
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The Egyptian / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: After defeating a mountain people in Syria, the Egyptian army cuts down the wooden statue of their god and burns it in honor of theirs, which are thus proven more powerful. The "defeated" god's name? Yahweh.
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The Egyptian / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: At the onset of the war against the Hittites, captured Syrian and Hittite soldiers are sacrificed by the positively gleeful priests of Sekhmet, she being the goddess of war. It goes without saying however that even Horemheb was unnerved and slightly disgusted by this, to say nothing of Sinuhe. In Crete, a person is sacrificied to the Minoan god every month. How is another story...
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The Egyptian / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The Cretan god seems to be an ophiotaurus, a monster created by Ovid in his Fasti.
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The Egyptian / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: The Cretan god is described as a massive bull-headed serpent.
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The Egyptian / int_e061cb06	comment	Rightful King Returns: Averted; the heir to the throne ends up in exile, and the commoner Horemheb becomes pharaoh.
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The Egyptian / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Egyptian / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Horemheb is combined with Seti as the father of Ramesses I. The historical Horemheb died childless and Ramesses I had been his grand vizier who had children and grandchildren, as well as being a competent administrator.
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The Egyptian / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
The Egyptian / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: In a twist, both Aten and Ammon are explained using light-imagery, as they both were solar deities in the Egyptian Mythology canon.
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The Egyptian / int_e6ab61d	comment	Magic Realism: While it's mostly a straight historical drama, there are elements like the blood stancher, whose mere presence can stop a wound from flowing, the Cretan god and the cures that Ammon's priests perform for Sinuhe that qualify as this.
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The Egyptian / int_e7dfebe8	comment	Nefernefernefer could probably teach Akhenaton some lessons, or rather her boobs could.
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The Egyptian / int_e88b2522	comment	Side Kick: Kaptah
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The Egyptian / int_e8cfde67	comment	Ambiguous Disorder: Sinuhe is a genius of medicine and can be very smart in other fields too, but he has pretty much No Social Skills, is surprisingly naîve even later in his life, and often makes not only impulsive, but also irrational decisions. One can finish the book with the impression that there is something up with him.
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The Egyptian / int_e98babd8	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!
The Egyptian / int_e98babd8	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: Nefer never misses a chance to take advantage of men's lust for her.
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The Egyptian / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Nefer. Kind of a subversion, because she actually warns Sinuhe that if he falls for her, she will eventually demolish everything he holds dear. But, being young and stupid, Sinuhe ignores the warnings, and being wily and indifferent, Nefer capitalizes on it.
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The Egyptian / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
The Egyptian / int_ec40626	comment	Love Martyr: Nefer uses Sinuhe, Baketamon abuses Horemheb.
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The Egyptian / int_edc22fe8	comment	Cartwright Curse: Sinuhe, again.
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The Egyptian / int_eed678bf	type	Deep Cover Agent
The Egyptian / int_eed678bf	comment	Deep Cover Agent: Sinuhe of all people! Horemheb sends him on a sort of multi-year spy mission across the known world (Syria, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Crete), ostensibly to sharpen his medical skill, but really to get a good idea about the military strength of other nations in comparison to Egypt's.
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The Egyptian / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Kaptah for Sinuhe, Sinuhe for Pharaoh, and Pharaoh for Aten, most prominently. Unfortunately it really only goes well for Kaptah.
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The Egyptian / int_f7883b17	comment	Love Makes You Dumb. Sinuhe with Nefernefernefer is a glaring example of this (or possibly of Lust Makes You Dumb).
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