In my duck family tree, I have a whole line of pharaoh's of Egypt. I want to make this line complete, so if you know any pharaoh from the duck universe, I would love to hear it here (with scan please). They may be birds, mice, dogs, etc.
I wrote a long translation and description about this image, but I accidentally deleted it. Basically, this is Tut-en-Ka'anka from the story book The Life of Donald Duck. His name is from the Swedish version. Donald Duck is named Kalle Anka in Swedish, and Anka means Duck. My guess is therefore that Tut-en-Ka'anka's English name probably is Tut-en-Ka'duck or Tut-en-Don'duck in the original English version.
He was the sultan (that's right - sultan, not pharaoh) of every duck in Egypt more than 5000 years ago.
I would assumed that Tut-en-Ka'anka likely was the ancestor of the McDucks from Storia e Glora. According to Paperpedia, Petronius Paperonius (Pah-Peh-Rheo), the earliest McDuck seen in the story, lived in ancient Egypt around 40-30 BC.
I had a look at INDUCKS, and I found some Swedish pockets that collect ancient Egypt-stories. I know your tree is in Dutch, but hopefully it will help your search. There's this one, this, and this.
The first one of those is called Tut-Ank-Kalle (named after Donald's Swedish name as mentioned in my last post). The cover features a pharaoh-looking duck. I don't know if that would qualify as the kind of stuff you're looking for.
The first one of those is called Tut-Ank-Kalle (named after Donald's Swedish name as mentioned in my last post). The cover features a pharaoh-looking duck. I don't know if that would qualify as the kind of stuff you're looking for.
Thanks! Do you think the translation would be Tut-Ank-Donald?
Thanks! Do you think the translation would be Tut-Ank-Donald?
That cover has only been published in Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. The Norwegian version of the book is titled "Duck-Ank-Amon". Since Donald is named Donald Duck in both Norwegian and English, I think Duck-Ank-Amon is the closest to an official English name we'll get.
"Tutunamão" (portuguese name; I don't know if the "Tutank-Paperon" in the original name of the story is supposed to be the Pharaoh), in Zio Paperone e il tesoro di Tutank-Paperon (dogface).
"Tutunamão" (portuguese name; I don't know if the "Tutank-Paperon" in the original name of the story is supposed to be the Pharaoh), in Zio Paperone e il tesoro di Tutank-Paperon (dogface).
Yes, strangely in that story the dogface faraoh is called TUTANK-PAPERON, really bizarre because in italian the words "papero" is the equivalent used in the comics for the "ducks" (while not being the exact translation, but over ninthy years of comics tradition has made it a de-facto acceptable translation).
In that story appears also two lookalikes of the two richest bilionaires: Paperonhep for Scrooge (the one in the image posted), and Rockerdusis for Rockerduck. They aren't pharaos, but both own companies which build buildings, and both want the task of building the new pyramid.
The caption say the story takes place 4000 years ago. The Money Bin of the simil-Scrooge is in Tebe, and they reached the pharaoh in a short time, so he must have his palace nearby.
I've currently some exams to study for, but in a couple of weeks I should have completed them. If you remember me at that time, I'll give a more detailed analysis of some of those pharaohs.
I wrote a long translation and description about this image, but I accidentally deleted it. Basically, this is Tut-en-Ka'anka from the story book The Life of Donald Duck. His name is from the Swedish version. Donald Duck is named Kalle Anka in Swedish, and Anka means Duck. My guess is therefore that Tut-en-Ka'anka's English name probably is Tut-en-Ka'duck or Tut-en-Don'duck in the original English version.
He was the sultan (that's right - sultan, not pharaoh) of every duck in Egypt more than 5000 years ago.
I would assumed that Tut-en-Ka'anka likely was the ancestor of the McDucks from Storia e Glora. According to Paperpedia, Petronius Paperonius (Pah-Peh-Rheo), the earliest McDuck seen in the story, lived in ancient Egypt around 40-30 BC.
An important thing to not re. Pah-Peh-Rheo: in his origin story, he is shown to be the uncle of Queen Cleopat-perina, who is said to be the great-grandmother of Cleopatra VII (THE Cleopatra, 69 - 30 BC). But of course, like you said, Pah-Peh-Rheo/Paperonius appears to live around 40-30 BC, which makes things a little complicated.... (Not to mention that the actual Cleopatra VII was seen in Don Rosa's The Guardians of the Lost Library!)
Last Edit: Jun 21, 2021 8:55:43 GMT by juicymcduck
the story Dai diari delle antenate: Paperiside e la sfinge doesn't give a precise date, but we know that it happens when the Sphynx was created. We also know the pharaoh of that period, called TU-MI-STUF il Grande ("il Grande" meaning "the Great", so probably a title), and his daughter AIDA, often called "la Celeste" ("the Heavenly"/"the Celestial"). The pharaoh is said to be "re dell'Alto e Basso Egitto" ("king of the Upper and Lower Egypt"), meaning that the two kingdoms are already unified. Some pyramids already exist, and at the end the Sphynx is built near those, with the face of the princess AIDA.
the second story is Zio Paperone e il tesoro di Tutank-Paperon, which we already discussed, so I'll keep it short. The story is set 4000 years ago, near Thebes (the Scrooge-lookalike has his moneybin on an hill there, and the pharaoh is at best 20 minutes of travel away). This pharaoh is called TUTANK-PAPERON, and he commission a new pyramid (so other pyramids already have been constructed), and the simil-Scrooge does it, creating a fake pyramid and a real one, inside a mountain. In the real one there are two frescos depicting the pharaoh and a woman, so probably his wife, when he offer her a bouquet, and when she threats him with a rolling pin.
Paperino e il colosso del Nilo is set today, so we only know the pharaoh of the colossus, called RAMSES II of the XIX (19th) dynasty of the "New Empire". In the story he isn't properly called "pharaoh", but it is heavily implied. We also know that there was a "Second Empire" (probably precedent the "New Empire"), because Scrooge is initially looking for an amphor of the "Second Empire" to make pair with another he bought before.
Zio Paperone e il tesoro del faraone is set today, too. This story mention a new pharaoh: pharaoh TUTANGATON, better known as "il faraone contestatore e filosofo" (the protester and philosopher pharaoh"). He built the "famous Little Pyramid", but because of his unconventional ideas, he built it face down. He also buried his treasure in the "Internal Sea", on a ship. It was a lot of amphors containing seeds, since he thought that the product of the earth and of the work was the most valuable thing of all.
It isn't clear if this pharaoh is supposed to be in Egypt. It is never mentioned to be in that country, the only city we know the cast visiting is called "Trebisonda", which is also the name of a real city in Turkey (but can't be that, because the real one is on the sea, the story one is in the desert), at the end when Scrooge search Donald to punish him they are on the mountains of Anatolia (but months have passed, so they may have just walked there later), and most evident is that when the globe points the position of the treasure that start this search, it isn't pointing at what seems Africa, but more the area of the middle East (probably around the -stan countries, or even more east).
Topolino e il tesoro del faraone is set today, again. Here Mickey and Goofy, when exploring the desert for a fake treasure hunt, fell in an ancient building containing an incredible treasure, that Mickey suppose was of an unnamed ancient pharaoh, but no other informations are given about this. The story is definitely set in Egypt (being mentioned multiple time).
Paperino e la piramide di Ment-Akut is also set today, and also explicitly mention Egypt. It probably has the oldest pharaoh that we can place in a chronological order. I say that because this story mention the creation of the first pyramid, and a smaller model that the architect MENT-AKUT made for the pharaoh TUTUNTOK. Being this the "first pyramid", we can then assume that all the pharaohs from stories where a pyramid is built are after this one.
Minni e il segno della Sfinge seems to have a lot of what we are searching, yet at the end of the story we learn that it's all a farse created by the billionaire Pien Debit for his bored cat.
Topolino e il garage del faraone is a "time machine" story. Here the group travel back to time in Egypt, various times are given ("3300 years ago", "3000 years ago", ecc), but the most precise is definitely 1300 before Christ, when the pharaoh won his war against the Ittites thankz to the gang's invention. We aren't show this war, but since the story take place when there is tensions between Ittites and Egyptians, and the pharaoh ask for a secret weapon to defeat the Ittites, the story can't take place much before. The pharaoh is called RAMSETE II, also called "il Grande" (almost definitely the same as RAMSES II, since both are translations of his name). Most probably he was of the XIX dynasty, because the "temporal remote" of Marlin was founded in the layer of that dynasty.
The only thing that isn't really is that the gang travel to the "cantiere della piramide di Cheope" ("worksite of Cheope's pyramid"), only that Cheope lived 100 years earlier. It most probably isn't a different pharaoh with the same name, since they explicitly said "Una delle sette meraviglie del mondo" ("one of the seven world wonders"), which in our world refer to that Cheope. But maybe with "cantiere" they didn't mean "currently building", but the area where it was built.
Topolino e il naso di Cleopatra is another "time machine" story. Mickey and Goofy travel to Alexandria in 47 b.C., where there is the princess CLEOPATRA. After they've discovered and defeated a coup from the Visir to overthrow Cleopatra, the gang helps her to shine in front of Giulio Cesare, who crowns her "Regina d'Egitto" ("Queen of Egypt"). During the story it is inted that Cesare made Cleo queen because he fell in love for her and her nose, but later it is revealed that this nose isn't the physical one, but a metaphorical "nose for affairs". Still this doesn't means that a relation between the two rulers can't happen like in the our world, because for modern historian to think probably more happened.
Last is Topolino e il mistero delle piramidi, third "time machine" story. This is less alligned to our world history, and more fantasy. Still that doesn't make it less possible for the comics world, which has all kinds of magics and mysteries. The story can be dated around 4700 years ago, and we can even theorize being one of the first (probably not The first for the different pharaoh). Initially around the construction site everyone feels down because they can't move the stone blocks, but two men, Omar and his uncle Abdul, have a solution that they present to the pharaoh. A water from an oasis hit by meteorites, that make everything weightless.
The pharaoh of this time is called FORUNCOLOSIS IV, and we see also his unnamed son. We also learn that all the pharaoh of that dynasty have a pimple on the nose, and to hide that they order that everyone is portrayed on the side.
For last I left the prologue and the epilogue. Those are kinda difficult to consider because aren't properly stories, but extra panels draw to connect all the others. The problem with accepting those is that all the other stories are supposed to be dreams of the pharaoh, so then aren't real? It could be both, so I left you to decide if accepting or not those as headcanon for you.
The first dida give us the time 4000 b.C., and PAPERAMSES, 13th pharaoh of the 13th dynasty (He looks identical to Donald). Are also mentioned precedent pharaohs, whose parchments are stored in the "piramide rovesciata" ("inverted pyramid"), a pyramid built upside down (like the one of TUTANGATON. Maybe the same?). At the end the pyramid is flooded with water from the Nile, but it's possible that, naturally with time or for some pharaoh desire, it has been removed.
the story Dai diari delle antenate: Paperiside e la sfinge doesn't give a precise date, but we know that it happens when the Sphynx was created. We also know the pharaoh of that period, called TU-MI-STUF il Grande ("il Grande" meaning "the Great", so probably a title), and his daughter AIDA, often called "la Celeste" ("the Heavenly"/"the Celestial"). The pharaoh is said to be "re dell'Alto e Basso Egitto" ("king of the Upper and Lower Egypt"), meaning that the two kingdoms are already unified. Some pyramids already exist, and at the end the Sphynx is built near those, with the face of the princess AIDA.
the second story is Zio Paperone e il tesoro di Tutank-Paperon, which we already discussed, so I'll keep it short. The story is set 4000 years ago, near Thebes (the Scrooge-lookalike has his moneybin on an hill there, and the pharaoh is at best 20 minutes of travel away). This pharaoh is called TUTANK-PAPERON, and he commission a new pyramid (so other pyramids already have been constructed), and the simil-Scrooge does it, creating a fake pyramid and a real one, inside a mountain. In the real one there are two frescos depicting the pharaoh and a woman, so probably his wife, when he offer her a bouquet, and when she threats him with a rolling pin.
Paperino e il colosso del Nilo is set today, so we only know the pharaoh of the colossus, called RAMSES II of the XIX (19th) dynasty of the "New Empire". In the story he isn't properly called "pharaoh", but it is heavily implied. We also know that there was a "Second Empire" (probably precedent the "New Empire"), because Scrooge is initially looking for an amphor of the "Second Empire" to make pair with another he bought before.
Zio Paperone e il tesoro del faraone is set today, too. This story mention a new pharaoh: pharaoh TUTANGATON, better known as "il faraone contestatore e filosofo" (the protester and philosopher pharaoh"). He built the "famous Little Pyramid", but because of his unconventional ideas, he built it face down. He also buried his treasure in the "Internal Sea", on a ship. It was a lot of amphors containing seeds, since he thought that the product of the earth and of the work was the most valuable thing of all.
It isn't clear if this pharaoh is supposed to be in Egypt. It is never mentioned to be in that country, the only city we know the cast visiting is called "Trebisonda", which is also the name of a real city in Turkey (but can't be that, because the real one is on the sea, the story one is in the desert), at the end when Scrooge search Donald to punish him they are on the mountains of Anatolia (but months have passed, so they may have just walked there later), and most evident is that when the globe points the position of the treasure that start this search, it isn't pointing at what seems Africa, but more the area of the middle East (probably around the -stan countries, or even more east).
Topolino e il tesoro del faraone is set today, again. Here Mickey and Goofy, when exploring the desert for a fake treasure hunt, fell in an ancient building containing an incredible treasure, that Mickey suppose was of an unnamed ancient pharaoh, but no other informations are given about this. The story is definitely set in Egypt (being mentioned multiple time).
Paperino e la piramide di Ment-Akut is also set today, and also explicitly mention Egypt. It probably has the oldest pharaoh that we can place in a chronological order. I say that because this story mention the creation of the first pyramid, and a smaller model that the architect MENT-AKUT made for the pharaoh TUTUNTOK. Being this the "first pyramid", we can then assume that all the pharaohs from stories where a pyramid is built are after this one.
Minni e il segno della Sfinge seems to have a lot of what we are searching, yet at the end of the story we learn that it's all a farse created by the billionaire Pien Debit for his bored cat.
Topolino e il garage del faraone is a "time machine" story. Here the group travel back to time in Egypt, various times are given ("3300 years ago", "3000 years ago", ecc), but the most precise is definitely 1300 before Christ, when the pharaoh won his war against the Ittites thankz to the gang's invention. We aren't show this war, but since the story take place when there is tensions between Ittites and Egyptians, and the pharaoh ask for a secret weapon to defeat the Ittites, the story can't take place much before. The pharaoh is called RAMSETE II, also called "il Grande" (almost definitely the same as RAMSES II, since both are translations of his name). Most probably he was of the XIX dynasty, because the "temporal remote" of Marlin was founded in the layer of that dynasty.
The only thing that isn't really is that the gang travel to the "cantiere della piramide di Cheope" ("worksite of Cheope's pyramid"), only that Cheope lived 100 years earlier. It most probably isn't a different pharaoh with the same name, since they explicitly said "Una delle sette meraviglie del mondo" ("one of the seven world wonders"), which in our world refer to that Cheope. But maybe with "cantiere" they didn't mean "currently building", but the area where it was built.
Topolino e il naso di Cleopatra is another "time machine" story. Mickey and Goofy travel to Alexandria in 47 b.C., where there is the princess CLEOPATRA. After they've discovered and defeated a coup from the Visir to overthrow Cleopatra, the gang helps her to shine in front of Giulio Cesare, who crowns her "Regina d'Egitto" ("Queen of Egypt"). During the story it is inted that Cesare made Cleo queen because he fell in love for her and her nose, but later it is revealed that this nose isn't the physical one, but a metaphorical "nose for affairs". Still this doesn't means that a relation between the two rulers can't happen like in the our world, because for modern historian to think probably more happened.
Last is Topolino e il mistero delle piramidi, third "time machine" story. This is less alligned to our world history, and more fantasy. Still that doesn't make it less possible for the comics world, which has all kinds of magics and mysteries. The story can be dated around 4700 years ago, and we can even theorize being one of the first (probably not The first for the different pharaoh). Initially around the construction site everyone feels down because they can't move the stone blocks, but two men, Omar and his uncle Abdul, have a solution that they present to the pharaoh. A water from an oasis hit by meteorites, that make everything weightless.
The pharaoh of this time is called FORUNCOLOSIS IV, and we see also his unnamed son. We also learn that all the pharaoh of that dynasty have a pimple on the nose, and to hide that they order that everyone is portrayed on the side.
For last I left the prologue and the epilogue. Those are kinda difficult to consider because aren't properly stories, but extra panels draw to connect all the others. The problem with accepting those is that all the other stories are supposed to be dreams of the pharaoh, so then aren't real? It could be both, so I left you to decide if accepting or not those as headcanon for you.
The first dida give us the time 4000 b.C., and PAPERAMSES, 13th pharaoh of the 13th dynasty (He looks identical to Donald). Are also mentioned precedent pharaohs, whose parchments are stored in the "piramide rovesciata" ("inverted pyramid"), a pyramid built upside down (like the one of TUTANGATON. Maybe the same?). At the end the pyramid is flooded with water from the Nile, but it's possible that, naturally with time or for some pharaoh desire, it has been removed.
Topolino e i templi di Babu Simbel is set today, at the site of Babu Simbel (parody of Abu Simbel. To note that in Paperino e il colosso del Nilo is real name is used, not a parody. So since the story explicitly date the moving in 1968, you could consider the two similar, but different events). Aliens arrivedon earth "some thousands of years"/"tens of centuries" ago, bringing technology to the Egyptians, who worshipped them as gods, and according to the aliens, built monuments inspired by their spaceship (this would means that they first landed before Ment-Akut built his model, maybe inspired by them). They stayed on Earth for an unspecified time, and left when a Goofy-lookalike almost drowned them and had them eaten by crocodiles. At the time of their departure there was pharaoh TRESETTES (those aliens say they live for "hundred of thousands of years", so this pharaoh doesn't need to have lived near TUTUNTOK).
In Paperino e i predoni del deserto $crooge has bought the oasi of Karaffa, where there is an ancient pyramid that he want to adapt in an hotel. Donald and QQQ are sent to get rid of the inhabitants. Those are bandits that try to stop the gang, and later capture QQQ. Donald is able to escape, and arrive in a treasure chamber, that he says being the tomb of RODOMASTRO III. Then, searching for water, he is knocked out by a strange odor from a flask. Then Donald became PAPERASTRO, a pharaoh whose power come from the feathers on his tail (the story paragon it to Sanson and his hair), plucked and dethroned by the pharaoh RAPANSETE II. With time the feathers regrow and he is able to conquest his throne. Then the vision/dream end. Later QQQ find a statue of PAPERASTRO I, saying that he "really existed". So maybe RAPANSETE existed too?
Then there is the italian translation of The Trail of the Phoenix. It is mentioned a pyramid, but it contains a pair of Phoenix's statue. No pharaohs.
Zio Paperone e il tempio d'oro also doesn't show any pharaoh. It only say that "Oro" was the egyptian god of fertility, but probably was something invented for this story ("oro" means gold in italian, and $crooge is searching the temple of Oro thinking it's a temple of gold. I'm curious how other languages managed it. Did they change the god name to their version of gold?)
Topolino e il fiore magico also as no shown pharaohs. There is an indirect mention of CLEOPATRA. Mickey and Goofy found a snake, that MM calls "aspide di Cleopatra" ("Cleopatra's asp"), and later explain that Cleo was "a queen of Egypt that killed herself by being biten by an asp".
Il cono di PAPERONETE I is set in Egypt "many years ago", during the reign of pharaoh PAPERONETE I. He is a $crooge-lookalike, and for him works a Donald-looklalike called Paprinus (but no relation is mentioned between the two). This pharaoh seems rather powerful, since other kings have to bring him gifts and tributes. Of those kings we see two: king ACHIMELECH and his son CHESEMELECH, and the king of the Baxioti (BB-lookalikes) who live at Canixia.
Then we learn that all his predecessors left pyramids (probably an exageration, but this allow us to place him after the start of pyramids-building), and so he decides to make a cone with a treasure room in the center, and a maze around. After a flood from the Nile invade the cone, the pharaoh is obliged to sacrifice part of his treasure to the mouth of the crocodiles, to no being eaten. For that reason, he later makes for the first time the crocodiles sacred, as also confirmed by the initial dida(So stories with mention of sacred crocodiles can probably be placed after this. One example is the second of this book. The simil-goofy says "[..] gettare cibo ai sacri caimani", meaning those animals are already revered when the aliens leave earth).
Last thing about this story: at a certain point, PAPERONETE exclaims "per la piramide di mio nonno" ("for the pyramid of my grandfather").So we have a mention of PAPERONETE's grandfather, which had a pyramid, and so probably he was a pharaoh too.
Topolino alla ricerca del tempio perduto has no mention of pharaohs, but MM and Goofy find a lost temple and discovers that the partner of the egyptian god Anubi (with the head of a jackal) was called Nut and had the head of hyena (while in our word there is a goddess called Nut, but she isn't associated with that animal)
Paperino e il faraone has at least four new characters for this research: first is pharaoh PAP-ENCH-ATON, whose tomb is discovered by an archeologist for $crooge's secretary, making him rich. S $crooge too go exploring, and in the Valley of the King he find a tomb of pharaoh PAPERSETE, the richest of his time ("3000 years ago") and identical to $crooge. He can be revived with a gold coin and a magic word. He had an unnamed nephew, that he says it's identical to Donald, who inherited and dilapidated all of PAPERSETE treasure (so he inherited the title too?). Last of the four is the queen PAPERTARI, wife of PAPERSETE.
Another possible addition to this research, even if less clear, is what $crooge said when in Egypt: "around a period from 1350 b.C. to 1200 b.C. Egypt was governed by the most powerful rulers it ever had: the Children of the Sun!" "Those pharaoh were buried [..] in the Valley of the Kings!". For how it is written in italian, it could means both the most powerful up to that point, or in general. Everyway, for the fact that he lived 3000 years ago, so potentially in the range 1350-1200 b.C., and that he's buried in the Valley, PAPERSETE could be one of those "Children of the Sun".
Topolino e la piramide impossibile is a "time machine" story. It has no pharaohs, but has other aliens, with another pyramid-shaped spaceship, this made entirely of zinc. It take place "[exactly] 5000 years ago" = "[exactly] 1850000 days ago" (those are professor Zapotec calculations). In the story a native of the past says "[..] to build a pyramid as it never been seen before" referring to the spaceship. So it's possible that other pyramids had already been built?
In the italian translation of Mickey and Clarapatra, there is the queen of Egypt, CLARAPATRA (a Clarabelle Cow-lookalike). There is also Giulio Cesare, looking like a ratface. But how "historical" can it be considered in my opinion is questionable, because it mention TV, mondovision, and even had a zeppelin.
In Zio Paperone e la vendetta del faraone we are taught of another pharaoh, called TUTANKSCUAC. He set a curse on everyone who took his treasure. Through a series of changes of hand, $crooge obtains a the pharaoh's mirror, and then a serie of misfortunes happens to hm. At the end he dispel the curse by returning the mirror to TUTANKSCUAC's tomb in his pyramid.
Are also mentioned two book titles that can help shine a light on comic-Egypt history: "l'Egitto degli Hyksos" ("the Egypt of the Hyksos") and "La XXI dinastia tanita" ("The XXI 'Tanite' dynasty", referring to our 21st dynasty, called "Tanite" because centered on the city of Tanis)
In Topolino e l'ultima piramide, ovvero: il segreto di Atum-Ra we learn that a little temple of Atum-Ra is the secret entrance for the pyramid of TUTMOSIS IV. It is underground and the only people who know its secret are Mickey, Goofy and the last descendants of the guardians of TUTMOSIS, the "Guardians of the Desert": Ash-Mir, Selim and Kabul.
Like for the other, I left the interpieces for the end. Like the other, it make all the other stories immaginated, this time through an alien trinket. This also feature PAPERAMSES, while a coup dethrones him and make Egypt a republic. We also see his three nephews QUIT, QUOT, QUAT, who are HDL-lookalikes. While wandering in the desert, they find the "Sfinge sbeccata" (a wordplay because "sbeccata" means "chipped", but it is similar to "becco"="beak"), a Sphynx with the head of a duck/bird. Inside it there is an alien spaceship (another!), that they abandoned and built the Sphynx around to hide it. At the end PAPERAMSES renounces to return to the throne when offered, so we could think this is the end of the 13th dynasty?
Zio Paperone e il tempio d'oro also doesn't show any pharaoh. It only say that "Oro" was the egyptian god of fertility, but probably was something invented for this story ("oro" means gold in italian, and $crooge is searching the temple of Oro thinking it's a temple of gold. I'm curious how other languages managed it. Did they change the god name to their version of gold?)
Checked the Norwegian translation, here's the dialogue from when things get cleared up:
HDD: Unca Scrooge! Come look! HDD: The mark of the falcon! Scrooge: Wak! But then... this is the temple of gold! Scrooge: Hooray! Filled to the brim with the precious metal! HDD: Yes! Gold was the Egyptians' symbol of fertility! HDD: That's why the cisterns full of water... which is the precious material of the desert, were called temples of gold!
I'm guessing this is a pretty straight forward translation aside from changing the word "god" to "symbol" so they can keep the word gold in there?
Zio Paperone e il tempio d'oro also doesn't show any pharaoh. It only say that "Oro" was the egyptian god of fertility, but probably was something invented for this story ("oro" means gold in italian, and $crooge is searching the temple of Oro thinking it's a temple of gold. I'm curious how other languages managed it. Did they change the god name to their version of gold?)
Checked the Norwegian translation, here's the dialogue from when things get cleared up:
HDD: Unca Scrooge! Come look! HDD: The mark of the falcon! Scrooge: Wak! But then... this is the temple of gold! Scrooge: Hooray! Filled to the brim with the precious metal! HDD: Yes! Gold was the Egyptians' symbol of fertility! HDD: That's why the cisterns full of water... which is the precious material of the desert, were called temples of gold!
I'm guessing this is a pretty straight forward translation aside from changing the word "god" to "symbol" so they can keep the word gold in there?
Thankz. Yes, the translation seems pretty faithful apart for god/symbol.
in Il romantico papiro di Paperinubi we aren't given a specific time. The pharaoh is a $crooge-lookalike called PA-PERUN TA-KA-GNUN, and his niece is a Daisy-lookalike called PAPERINIDE. A Donald-lookalike called PAPERINUBI, the court painter, loves her, and by the end of the story she have the same feeling. He also has three simil-HDL nephews called QUIZ, QUOZ, QUAZ. The pharaoh has a pyramid that esternally is painted like the money bin. A thing strange in this story is that in one panel, the pharaoh called the painter "nipote" ("nephew"/"grandson", more probably the first). The thing is never mentioned again, and while the incest wasn't uncommon in egyptian royal houses, the blood connection makes no sense, because Paperinubi talks about Paperinide as "the beautiful and unreachable niece of the pharaoh". Why would he say "the niece of the pharaoh" instead of "cousin". Plus the unreachable status seems to be because she is part of the royal family and so of a major caste, but Paperinubi should be too. So my idea is, if you want to keep the uncle-nephew relation, is seeing Paperinide and Paperinubi related to the pharaoh through different parents of him, maybe Paperinide from the father, making her part of the royal family, and Paperinubi from the mother, who could have been a concubine or a lesser wife of lower origins, granted the title of great royal wife only after his son was crowned.
Paperinide has two crocodiles, "Mascella" and "Dentino" ("Jaw" and "Lil' Tooth"), that she use as ward crocodiles. Those doesn't seem to be particularly venerated.
La rivincita di Paperamses finally show us this pharaoh in a real story, and not just the "canonically-questionable" prologues. Seeing that he already knows the GG-lookalike of this time, Archimedes, but he's still in charge, the story is probably placed between I SMIT 1 and I SMIT 17. Dates aren't given, but it repeates that PAPERAMSES was the 13th pharaoh of the 13th dynasty. A new, possible, member of the royal family is TUTANDUCK. A Rk-lookalike, he is originally called "prince", but after saboting a ceremony on the pyramid built by PAPERAMSES, he rallies the population against him, and usurp the throne crowning himself "pharaoh". After being tricked in to confessing his sabotage, the population revolts and reinstall PAPERAMSES pharaoh. He then strip TUTANDUCk of his "prince" title.
In Topolino e il fantasma di Cleopatra Mickey and Indiana explore Antirhodos, where the archeologist is sure there is Egypt queen CLEOPATRA's palace. He is a massive fan of her, and tells her story. According to him, she reigned "around 2000 years ago", and that "she wasn't afraid to challenge Rome" (the panel show her refusing a roman-looking guy with a laurel wreath. Maybe emperor Augustus himself?). Then says the island is submerged around 300 a.C. (like in our world) and mention Napoleon.
Indiana Pipps e il faraone d'Amazzonia is set in the middle of the Amazon forest, near where Indiana Pipps lives. In the area at North of the Rio Branco disappearances were happening. Indiana and Mickey goes to investigate, and find an egyptian kingdom, called New Luxor (or is it just the name of the city? unclear) hiding behind the Paracanà falls. It is reigned by pharaoh FA-RAH-BUT I, who is enslaving natives to build a pyramid, and want to conquer the world. In reality he is an usurper, who imprisoned the IMOTEP III, pharaoh of New Luxor saying he was taken by the spirits. Mickey and Indiana are able to restore him on the throne, but he chooses it isn't the time to leave the valley, seeing how different the world outside is.
The story of how they arrived in the continent America goes like this: thousands of years ago, TUMSETE left Egypt with some followers after a disagreement with the pharaoh. They went over the Hercules' columns, but a storm made them arrive in a new land. Here the ancestors of IMOTEP III exchanged knowledge and traditions with the locals (seem Maya/Aztec?) and lived in peace. But then the harmony ended and they went south, finding a river (the Amazon river, says Indiana) and founded New Luxor in an hidden valley, where they remained and lived isolated "for centuries" (so the founding of New Luxor is at best ~1000 years old, I guess?).
At the end Indiana says that a parchment talks of an egyptian colony in the South Pole, and it is left there, as a joke because he just found an ancient civilization and now he's searching another. But seeing how wild those stories (another story staight up tells there is a venician colony, called Venezia II, underground in Australia. With canals, doges and all) are, it's possible one colony exist or existed down there.
In Indiana Pipps e la biblioteca perduta Mickey and Indiana are searching the remains of the Library of Alexandria, and still have time to stumble in a buried pyramid. It belonged to pharaoh PI-KO-LET, and was built in the middle of the desert because the pharaoh falled in disgrace. The site is three days of travel away from Sahabel village, and it's near the Bel-Hombr oasi (where are stored the books of the lost library).
Zio Paperone e il terzo Nilo claims that exists a third Nile river, called the Golden Nile, who is born from a region near the Equator still unexplored today. From here Ludwig says came the gold that made Ancient Egypt the brighest of the civilizations, and the pharaohs the most powerful rulers for centuries.
During this explanation we are shown an unnamed pharaoh, and later it is mentioned the discovery of the tomb of the pharaoh TUTANKAMON. But the biggest revelation is that, following upstream the Nile and exploring the jungle, the gang arrive in what is an untouched egyptian reign. This place seems to be divided in two parts: the "Regno di Sotto" ("Under Kingdom") is populated by bird-like characters wearing purple dresses, and they need to mine gold. The "Città di Sopra" ("Above City") people are bird-like too, and wear only a yellow skirt, a gold collar and no shirt. Even if the one under is called kingdom, they seem to be ruled by the same person: he is Tim Paperberg, an aviator that during the 30es try to traverse Africa with no stop, but crashed and disappeared. He was found by the egyptian reign, and believed to be a god. He wears the "crown of the two kingdoms" and the gang calls him pharaoh.
Incited by the Beagle Bass, the people from Under rebelled, saying that they want to go outside and don't believe anymore to the lies of Tim (who was saying there was nothing outside). They try to contact outside with $crooge PC, but see a news report about the problems of the modern world (Pollution, Ozone Hole, world famine, criminality) and do a 180°, saying they don't to leave anymore (Which is pretty stupid to me. First of all, half of those problems directly affect them, and the other two could indirectly, driving more people to deforest the jungle and so meeting them. Second, with all their gold they could certainly help resolve or lessen those problems. Third, there are lots of thing that would greatly benefits them, certainly the one from unders, that up until two pages before they are (maybe) forced to mine gold for the people above [why, they don't have contact with the outside, so gold is useless for them. Does they just create lakes of gold?], but then are just happy to live their life in that reign. Then why were you revolting? In general Disney comics have this point that isolated kingdoms live the right life, and the modern one is bad, and they don't want to contact us because we are bad. See for example the Amazon stories, where the egyptians where enslaving native americans to build the pyramid, but it's the outside that is bad. Or the library one, where beduins since 1700 years ago are willingly hiding the informations of the library because curious and scientists will misuse it [Well, if you are so good to judge characters, shouldn't be hard to find some scientist that will use that millenial culture correctly. Or do you just want to sit on those books and hide those forever]?)
The gang and Tim is then given a potion that makes forget before leaving, remembering nothing of what happened in the egyptian reign (But it isn't really clear how it works. The gang forget from when they flee from a tribal tribe to the reign, but Tim lived there for 70 years, and he seems to remember nothing too.)