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Characteristics Of Egyptian Love Songs

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1. Introduction
Today in the 21st century there is a generalized perception on the matter of love, one hears ‘love songs’ and reads about great love stories which all provide a for a generalized conception of love, but what about the Egyptian’s? What did they perceive love to be?
Through the Ramesside period’s love songs, insight can be gained in the way that the Egyptian’s viewed love and one might deduce that given the fact that several love songs were written down and preserved over time the Egyptian’s clearly valued their views regarding love.
By relying on academic sources, this essay will analyze the characteristics of Egyptian love songs and what these love songs expressed about the Egyptian’s view point towards love.
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The poets of these love songs invite the readers to observe the lovers and their desires, and through this portrayal, the poet reveals their own views of love (Fox 1985:295).The lover’s or narrator’s in these songs were women and men (or boys and girls) in love who refer to one another as ‘brother’ and ‘sister’ affectionately (Creaseman & Wilkinson 2017:202).
The general themes of these love songs include desire, love, and lovemaking (Creaseman & Wilkinson 2017:202), and do not express or address Egyptian gods or the relations between the gods and mankind (Fox 1985:234). The lovers in the songs are not depicted as gods, nor do they attempt to represent their gods (Fox

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