LORD OF THE NILE

CHAPTER 1

Long ago, when the world was new, the gods lived on earth and were 

Pharaohs in Egypt . By their wise example the gods showed earth's

people how their land should be governed and made them content

The last god rule on earth was Horus , the son of Isis . When he saw 

that his people lived peaceable together and had learned to bless the

gods , he withdrew to the heavens and let mortals rule in Egypt.

The people of Egypt still believed their Pharaohs to be gods and

thought that each one , when he died, would join his father Ra, and 

travel with him in the boat of the sun . Before departing, each Pharaoh 

built an ''everlasting home'' a tomb in which his body would be preserved

forever . The Ancient Egyptians believed that without a perfectly preserved 

body to live in the soul would die.

                                                                     CHAPTER 2

Now about four thousand six hundred years ago , Zoser a good and just king,

ruled Egypt as a Pharaoh . he was anxious that his life in the next world should 

be blessed , and when he looked at the massive brick tombs of former Pharaohs

he doubted whether even they would last forever . So he asked his vizier, the great

architect imhotep  the wise to build him a truly god like tomb that would outlast

time itself. Imhotep created a tomb of stone , which was made of many slabs of

stone set one upon another , making a stairway to the sky. This was the first 

pyramid , known as the step  pyramid ,and it still stands today. In the eighteenth

year of Zosers reign , disaster struck Egypt . The Nile , which flooded the land 

every year , was low and sluggish . Farmers waited anxiously for the river to

coat their fields with the rich mud in which the crops grew tall, and to fill the 

canals that watered them , for rain is hardly known in Egypt . But the flood failed,

and when set sent the burning winds from the desert all growing things shriveled 

and died .