Ancient Egyptian Mythology in Rick Riordan's Novel "The Red Pyramid," Translated by Aditya Hadi Pertama: A Study Using Roland Barthes' Semiotics

Abstract

This article discusses the analysis of ancient Egyptian mythology in Rick Riordan's novel The Red Pyramid subtitled by Aditya Hadi Pratama. This article is purposed to analyze the forms of ancient Egyptian mythology and to describe the interpretation of the mythological simbols in the novel. The researcher uses Rolland Barthes semiotic analysis approach to identify the variety of mythological simbols and to describe the interpretation of the simbols in the novel. Then, the researcher keeps the records as the instrument. The analysis went through reading the novel and recording the significant items to analyze the mythological simbols in the novel. Once the simbols were recorded, then they were interpreted by the expressive messages implied. In this article, the researcher discovered ancient Egyptian mythological simbols of bags, eyes of horus, rosette stones, ankh, sphinx, thrones, golden coffins, hieroglyphs, days of the damned, colors, eastern and western sides, ancient kingdoms, medieval kingdoms, Ptolemy (geographer and astronomer) and jazz processes. The researcher also described the interpretation of the mythological simbols by the author of the novel. This article is expected to affect readers' awareness towards ancient Egyptian mythology, how the mythological simbols are varied in the literature work. Besides, this article would make readers know better about mythology in ancient Egyptian culture and society.