The Snake and the Pharaoh

Demius had become Pharaoh when he was provided twelve eld old. His father Manelik and bugger off Consuela were the first ever rulers everyplace Egypt. For years the nation had g 1 with come to the fore a leader, to each one person was self-reliant and had no one to watch everyplace them. When the tribe realised it was time to change they searched far and big among the large number of the Nile v exclusivelyey to find psyche who was worthy to rule over them. It took them many another(prenominal) months to find the perfect man, Manelik, who already had a wife.He was the most respected, honest and affectionateness man in all the percentage and the people felt he was a prime ruler for them. Manelik and Consuela could not pay back clawren still they motivationed one so badly. When the people saw what an excellent Pharaoh Manelik was, they entreated Min, the graven image of fertility who gave them entirely one kid and by that time they were already over sixty years old . When Maneliks parents died the people immediately stated that he would be heir to the throne at only twelve years old.A extraneous man in Egypt always apply to say love, just like wine, plenty blind the eyes and numb the mind. And this is hardly what happened to Demius. As Demius got old he became more than and more lonely and really coveted a wife. Every week he would hold a gala and pick up all the citizens of the Nile valley to enjoy the festivities. just now what they did not know was that he was exploitation this as an opportunity to agnisek out the perfect bride.And then he saw her. One wickedness, dressed elegantly in lace as blue as the sky, with a face as kind as a lily, a pull a face as bright as the cheer and a beauty he had never before imagined. He enquired about her and make up out that she had a magnificent interpret voice and if there was anything she loved more than singing it was dancing. Oh she was his dream come true.Unfortunately, she was pros ecute to be married to Anaki, said to be the best(p) saltationr throughout all the Nile Valley. Determined that he could win her over he ceaselessly tried to watch over her until she relented, under one condition. At his close party Anaki and Demius could compete for her hand in a dance. They each had to dance with her and the best dancer would be her husband.Knowing plentiful well he could never flog Anaki at dancing, because he had seen him dance and he was, indeed, the best, Demius thought of a way he could win the competition. Demius was very good friends with the gods, and he remembered the story of how when his parents wanted a child the gods had come to their rescue. So he summoned Artemis, the goddess of nature, explained his property to her and asked her to come to make Demius unable to dance. Artemis told him to go to the gala and she would take care of everything.On the night of the dance Demius dressed in his finest apparel and entered the dancing room. When the t ime came for the dance and he could not find Anaki he was very pleased, knowing that Artemis had helped him. That night he danced with Gattin and, since Demius did not show up, he was declared to be the winner and she kept her blaspheming and promised to marry him.In the night when Demius went to know he was elated because he had in the long run found his bride. But as he went to lie in bed he saw this creature with no hands, and no legs, curled up in his bed. It was Anaki, Artemis had taken away his hands and legs so that he could no longer dance. But Artemis had withal made a deal with Anaki. You see she was secretly in love with Demius, plainly he was not interested in her, and paid her no mind. She did not want him to marry another.Though she could not go back on her word to Demius she bottled up all of Anakis anger and false it into toxicant and placed it in his tongue. That night Demius was bitten by Anaki, who became known as Snake, because he could not speak properly with the poison on his tongue. Demius may have won the dance, but he died without getting his bride. The people of the Nile, when they learnt of Demius evil tricks, hated him so untold that they did not bury his body but built a tomb round his palace instead so that he would stand out as a reminder forever, of the wicked effects of envy.