Mi•tzᵊraꞋyim: Ankh-Tawi,, Pi-Tom and Pi- |
Addressing his brothers and all of his father's household, Yo•seiphꞋ announced, "I'll go back up to Ankh-Tawi, and explain to Par•ohꞋ Sa-hotep-ka-Ra En-yoteph 4th that you have come to me from ërꞋëtz Kᵊna•anꞋ. I must explain to him the reason you are herders of bovidae and bâ•sârꞋ is because you are trader-merchants and the herds are merely part of all of your belongings that you brought with you.
A Nile canal near ancient Ankh-Tawi (Memphis, near Cairo). Built ca. B.C.E. 2560, the Great Pyramids (in background) had already been standing for 8 centuries when Yo•seiphꞋ arrived. The pyramids appear here as Yo•seiphꞋ would have seen them from his wing of the palace in Ankh-Tawi. |
When Par•ohꞋ Sa-hotep-ka-Ra En-yoteph 4th inquires into your background, you mustn't tell him, or other Egyptians, that you are herders of bovidae because Egyptians understand herders of bovidae to be a to•eiv•âhꞋ.
Instead, you must answer that "Your workers have been trader-merchants from our childhood until now – we and our fathers."
Then Yo•seiphꞋ took his father and selected four of his brothers to accompany him as they caravanned northward to the palace of Par•ohꞋ in Ankh-Tawi, the capital of Mi•tzᵊraꞋyim, to update Par•ohꞋ Sa-hotep-ka-Ra En-yoteph 4th
Optional parental preparation:
What do you think might be involved for you and your family to prepare, and rehearse, to meet the head of the world's superpower (which Egypt was, and had, at that time, been for around 1,000 years)?
àÇðÀùÑÅé îÄ÷ÀðÆä – i.e., caravan traders, merchants, entrepreneurs
Questions you might anticipate that your child might raise and be prepared to discuss:
What does coach mean?