Moorish Fairytales A Princesses Journey
Cinderella Rhopodis
Ancient mythology is a storytelling form to express deeper emotional, biological, spiritual and prophetic meaning. Such is the much older story of Cinderella.
She was originally a slave girl named Rhopodis in ancient Egypt, antagonized by ladies of wealthier status.
A hawk flew over and snatched up one of her sandals, flying it through the sky and dropping it at the foot of an Egyptian prince who went to great lengths to find the owner of the sandal.
He eventually fell in love with the slave girl. It is the story of the journey through her own heart and mind to find love and become enlightened.
Later versions of the story taken from Moorish folk tales were popularized in Europe as Rhopodis became Cinderella.
The heroine went through many image changes but her beginnings are reflected in her name as a girl of divine origins.
(Ella, as in the angelic Elohim) and Cinder (from black coal)
Heqet
The Princess and the frog is a Cinderella story of sorts based on the Nile Valley Goddess Heqet. Yearly, as the ancient Nile river floods and fertilizes the land for the growing season, devotees worship Heqet and thousands of frogs that emerge with the Nile waters to increase prosperity and fertility.
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