This Redbubble design has two types: text only and text + snake. The design is the hieroglyphic text of a small part of the story: the Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor. This story was probably composed during the Middle Kingdom, and originally was written in hieratic rather than hieroglyphs. The text is my favorite part in the story. A sailor, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, washes up on a magical island and encounters a giant snake who saves him. This part of the text is when the snake first arrives, with a body of gold and eyebrows of lapis lazuli. The hieroglyphic text is accompanied by some lines written in transliteration, the universal script Egyptologists use to translate and discuss the ancient Egyptian language. These transliterations are accompanied by their English translations. The blue, slightly different from the blue used in the "Game like an Egyptian design", is meant to evoke the Great Blue-Green, wadj-wer, which was the ancient Egyptian word for the Mediterranean Sea and other large bodies of water. The story is supposed to take place south of Egypt, though. Wadj-wer also appears in the design's text.

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