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Ptah forbids the king to fight
Egypt · c. 1208 BCE
the dream in which Phtah forbids Minephtah to take part in the battle against the peoples of the sea
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- Source
- History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. II (McClure trans.) — Gaston Maspero; trans. M. L. McClure, 1903–06. Vol. II, ch. I, note
- Rights
- Public domain (US)
- Record type
- Research case
- Place
- Egypt · Egyptian
- Date
- c. 1208 BCE
- Uncertainty
- Moderate — Summarised by the Egyptologist Gaston Maspero from Egyptian royal inscriptions (McClure trans., 1903–06).
- Imagery
- Ruler · War · Temple
- Feelings
- Awe · Unease
Another way to look at this dream
Notes on the images in this dream from psychology, myth, folklore and semiotics. Each names its source.
War
In the war, were you a soldier, someone fleeing, or watching from outside? Was there a particular enemy?
Homeric epic Classical text
Zeus sends Agamemnon a deliberately false dream promising that Troy will fall at once. The epic itself treats a war dream as something that can mislead.
Homer, Iliad II
Song-dynasty poetry Literature
Lu You and Xin Qiji, both kept from the frontier they longed to recover, kept dreaming of battle; their war dreams are read today as poems of unfulfilled duty.
Lu You; Xin Qiji
Exploration notes, not a diagnosis, a prediction, or evidence of real events.
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