From Barque to Board

The Prompt

Trace the relationship between the board game of Mehen and the mythology of the snake god who protects Ra's solar barque. Identify at least three sources — one on the physical artifacts (Petrie, the British Museum board, or the Hesy-Ra tomb), one on the Pyramid Texts or Coffin Texts, and one on the theological migration of Mehen's identity to Senet in the New Kingdom. Explain what it meant for a board game to serve as a simulacrum of cosmic survival.

Completion Criteria

Three citations (one archaeological, one textual, one theological) and a short essay of three or four paragraphs on the game as metaphysical instrument.

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