The Shipwrecked Sailor

The shipwrecked sailor is a secular folktale about forces beyond our control. The story likens the pharaoh's power to that of a terrible cyclone or obliterating meteor. But rather than making us feel awe or admiration, we simply feel sad. In the countryside, just after the fall of the twelfth dynasty, there lived a peasant named Kunanup. While the meaning of the ship wrecking sailor is elusive, I think you'll find the eloquent peasant to be clear as a diamond.