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Ancient Myths by the 4Th and 5Th Grade Told in Narrative and Picture Form Ancient Myths by the 4th and 5th Grade told in narrative and picture form Poughkeepsie Day School 2019-20 Ancient Myths by the 4th and 5th Grade Table of Contents GOTHY CATS by Malcolm Agresta pg. 3 Athena and Tyche ( the fight …) by Gia Beck pg. 8 Bastet’s Cats by Chloe Becker pg. 12 The Heat Wave by Nicky Berenzon pg. 14 Korova’s True Love by Oskar Bertucci-Miller pg. 16 The Shaking Grounds by Matty Canez pg. 26 The Light Battle by Cameron Czaijkowski pg. 29 Zeus the Avenger by Walter Dunk pg. 32 How Nut Knows the Sky by Ella Glassford pg. 35 The Blue Water by Sam Gutierrez pg. 41 How the World Started HATE by Arlo King pg. 44 Demeter and Perephone by Jaiden Lanchester pg. 47 A Tale of Bast by David Lozada pg. 52 The Enchanted Brew by Crosby Reis-Larson pg. 57 The Myth of Demeter by Japer Sagaties pg. 68 Ku’s Dragon by A.J. Sayago pg. 71 -Page 2- -Page 3- -Page 4- -Page 5- -Page 6- GOTHY CATS by Malcolm Agresta Deep in the god temple with its various jewels and offerings, its gold plated hieroglyphs were glowing. There is a conversation of gods… “YOU ARE TOO GOTHIC FOR MY CAAATSSS S SSS SS S.” “Ya. So I'm the lord of death. That's gothy, so me will be gothie,” Anubis said snarkishly. “You will pay! Your bones will look so hideous not even the dead will be able to look at you,” said Bastet as she stormed off. Later Bastet concocted an ugly cat that she called a dog. She would make it into a liquid and pour it into his goblet at the god festival. So she bottled it and left. X `qolLater at the god festival even Anubis was having fun so it was easy to slip the dog into Anubis's goblet! When Anubis drank it, like Bastet said, not even the dead could look at him because his head was a jackal. So he retired to being the god of mummification…... “YOU ARE STILL !!!!!!!!\ -TOO GOTHY!! ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ”​ ​ ​ ​ ​ THE END. -Page 7- Athena and Tyche ( the fight …) by Gia Beck Once upon a time two sisters fought so much they …… well you will see. ​_________________________________----------------------------------- “See sister I can see the future and I see you losing all your powers,” said Tyche. “YOU DON'T FRIGHTEN ME,” hollered Athena. Well this happened a lot back and forth but the sisters still loved each other. One day Athena was angry because Tyche said she was the coldest human being ever. Being the goddess of war she was aggressive. Love was a small priority to her. So she declared that she no longer loved Tyche. The next day Demeter came home for a family get together. Demeter is feeling uncomfortable. She feels unsettled with the arguing happening in the family. Demeter wanted to stop the fighting and tried to help sometimes. But she did not want to get in the middle of the fighting. The sisters continued to fight like dwarf hamsters even though Demeter tried to make peace sometimes. “‘DON’T FIGHT ME! THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES, “​SCREAMED Tyche. “ “CONSEQUENCES OF DEATH​ ,” HOLLERED ​ Athena . Tyche ​cracked​ ​her knuckles to show Athena who she was messing with. Athena had a deadly smirk​. ​ Demeter was terrified. Athena took her sword and slashed. -Page 8- Demeter screamed, “ NO. You are sisters so you can't kill each other. That's ​SINFUL.” Tyche said in an aggravated way, “Fine.” Then thought of something that suddenly popped in her head and added, “Oh, I’m predicting a quest.” Tyche had forseen this quest in her head. Demeter asked, “Oh, well do you have any more information on this quest?” Tyche replied, “Yes, it’s a quest for Athena and me to prove who is the best. You’ll be the one to write it” Athena added in, “Oh well if this is going to happen then I’ll be the toughest. I know I’ll win since I’m the best.” Later that day...Demeter sat in her palace dining room at a fancy, carved table made out ​ of expensive hickory wood. On the table was a papyrus paper and dried bananas for her snack. She began writing the quest: “You are the chosen one. The other shall give in. To prove this the chosen one must discover the hidden note and bring it back with a pigeon feather attached to it.” Once Demeter was finished writing up the quest, her trained domestic goat hid the quest note somewhere that no one would ever think of. So, the goat ventured off to a bat’s cave. She went so deep into the bat’s cave that it was pitch black. She could feel the bats’ wings brushing against her. The goat was timid and quickly walked even deeper into the cave She ended up going so deep that no one had ever been there before. It was probably a record of how deep into a cave she went. Meanwhile, Athena who was so competitive wanted to get the quest started. However, Tyche wished this had never happened. They both started on the quest looking for the note. They both started walking. Tyche strolled along mumbling in frustration to herself, “This is ridiculous.” Athena, however, was excited….excited to go on her first quest. She had all her equipment ready. She was confident that she would find the note. -Page 9- Tyche took a break when she reached the mountain near the bat cave. She started pacing and wondering where a goat would hide the note. She knew it must be an intricate place because this was a quest. She suddenly saw the future and realized that the note must be in a bat cave. However, she only could see a bat cave but didn’t know which one. She sped up the mountain to the closest cave which was where the note really was hidden. Tyche starts searching for the note at the entrance. She was not expecting it to be deep in the cave. Meanwhile, Athena was climbing the same mountain but on the other side. She was thinking that she was super close because she felt something in her heart. She said to herself, “Aghh! Feelings! I don't know where they are coming from but they are pulling me towards that cave.” When Athena enters the bat cave she doesn't realize Tyche is there because it is so dark. It is dark like space. Athena tippy toes around the cave. She wants to be the first one so she is quiet and on her tippy toes speed walking. In the cave, Tyche hears something and thinks the cave is haunted. In her head she says, ‘This darn goat brought me here for a reason. This cave is haunted!’ In the cave Athena continues to be pulled by her feelings and Tyche who now thinks this is all a joke. Athena and Tyche end up side by side but have no idea in the dark. They can just feel the breeze of the note which was only 50 feet away now. Both hands magically reach out in the dark and clasp onto the note! Next thing, they are tugging their hands and yelling. “Let go! I got it first!” they both yelled. Athena screamed, “I’m Athena. I’m better than you. It even says that in the note.” Tyche replied, “This is all a joke. Let go and I'll rip the note into shreds.” The magical feeling that Athena had when she entered the cave spread into both of their spirits. The feeling inside of them made them suddenly drop the note and hug each other. -Page 10- Athena said, “What is going on? But this is a nice warm hug.” Tyche said, “I don’t know either but I agree. I’m sorry I said that you would lose all your powers. I think you will gain more as you grow older.” Athena said, “And, I’m, s-s-s-s-sorry. I guess I was being full of myself and I shouldn’t have. You are a great sister.” The two sisters said, “Let’s walk back home together and enjoy a nice cup of herbal tea.” As they walked home, Athena cried, “I call the lemon tea!” When they arrived home, Demeter was happy to see them. As she made them their tea, she said, “I’m proud of you guys.” From that day on the sisters were friends and had learned their lesson. -Page 11- Bastet’s Cats by Chloe Becker One day, all the Ancient Egyptians stopped worshiping the goddess Bastet. so then the cats ran out of their homes and left their owners behind. The owners were looking all around their homes, but they couldn’t find them. They looked around the banks of the Nile River. The cats were there, but on the other side of the river. The owners found a log and used it to get across the river. Then the cats ran away while the owners were getting across the river. One of the owners got off the log and chased the cats, but the cats were faster! The cats ran to the Temple of Bastet at Memphis. Bastet quickly ran out of her temple. “What do you come here for?” she asked in a powerful voice. The cats answered, “We just came here because our owners didn’t worship you. Can you play your magic sistrum and do something about this?” “I will do it on one condition,” she said.
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