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TEACHERS: Mr. Nicky is booking his 2023-24 virtual assemblies and online history songwriting lessons! These programs (via Zoom/Google Meet/etc.) meet state learning standards in both social studies and ELA, and they’re tons of fun. Please send an e-mail to [email protected] for full information. (Students will not receive a response, but thank you for your support!)

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Egyptian Mythology Song

By Mr. Nicky

To the Tune of “Despacito (Remix)”

by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, ft. Justin Bieber

Backing tracks property of Karaoke Version/Tency Music.

When I’m mummified, I’ll live forever

My heart will weigh lighter than a feather, yeah

They’ll drain my brain out then they’ll put my organs in canopic jars

They’ll leave food for my Ka to eat

and my Ba’s personality

must recognize my body that’s why they’ll embalm me, embalm me

Osiris will accept my soul down in Duat

Because I obeyed the cosmic order of Ma’at

I honored the Great Pesedjet

So I’ll avoid a second death

Do it or Ammit will eat your lead heart

Shu is the air god, Tefnut is the moisture goddess

Nut and Geb are sky and earth their kids are

Nebet Hut, Seth, Osiris, Isis and Horus the Elder

O yeah, Ra

He’s our sun and light

He’s our creator god

He controls the seasons and he grows our crops

His eye is a goddess and his tears made humans

Seth, Ra, Nit, Sobek, Horus the Younger, Elder, Hathor

Imhotep, Bastet, Geb, Tefnut, Shu, Nut, Anubis, Osiris,

Sekmet, Khnum, Nebet Hut, Isis, Thoth

Sekmet’s lethal

Taking all her vengeance out upon the people

Imhotep has been deified but once was real

Seth cut up Osiris, he’s a source of evil

Thankfully poor Isis put her husband back together

Before Osiris went under

She conceived Horus the Younger

(Not the Elder, he’s the Younger, baby)

He defeated Seth, now he’s our god of war and battle

The question that we have to ask now

Is Seth an aardvark, fox or jackal?

Our gods can be portrayed as combos

of human forms and animals

If they’re like snakes they’re scoundrels

If they have horns they’re powerful

Many gods are similar to others like Atum

Hes like Ptah or Amun-Ra in the New Kingdom

Yes over time our gods would absorb into one another

Many villages had myths that seemed to conflict with each other

Is Hathor the wife of Ra, his daughter or his mommy?

Or is his mom Nit? She’ll knit me my mummy

I see a funerary boat

bringing me to see Thoth

He is writing down

All the deeds of deceased souls

Magic spells can take you

down to see his face, he’s got

a baboon or an ibis bird for a cabeza (head)

I see a funerary boat

bringing me to see Thoth

he is writing down

All the deeds of deceased souls

Get some amulets and

a Book of the Dead then

You will have some underworld journey protection, oh yeah

Seth, Ra, Nit, Sobek, Horus the Younger, Elder, Hathor

Imhotep, Bastet, Geb, Tefnut, Shu, Nut, Anubis, Osiris,

Sekmet, Khnum, Nebet Hut, Isis, Thoth

Cats are sacred

Bastet is their patron and mummification

Is handled by Anubis he uses natron

Sobek is a crocodile but Seth’s more dangerous

Thankfully poor Isis put her husband back together

Before Osiris went under

She conceived Horus the Younger

(Not the Elder, he’s the Younger, baby)

He defeated Seth, now he’s our god of war and battle

He is incarnated as our Pharaoh

But the kid is Greek to me now

Death’s so sweet, no?

You’ll be granted entrance to The Field of Reeds

Opening up your mouth’s our last ceremony

Go take you’re grave goods with you to eternity, go! (vamanos)

I see a funerary boat

bringing me to see Thoth

he is writing down

All the deeds of deceased souls

You’ll be safe in your sarcophagus

We’ll bury you in the necropolis

I see a funerary boat

bringing me to see Thoth

he is writing down

All the deeds of deceased souls

You get a mastaba or pyramid

Thankfully you can afford it

Death’s so sweet, no?