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''The Red Pyramid'' is a 2010 fantasy adventure novel based on Egyptian mythology written by Rick Riordan. It is the first novel in ''The Kane Chronicles'' series. ==Plot== The book is written as a recording by Carter and Sadie Kane. Carter and their father, Julius, go to London to visit Sadie, Carter's younger sister. Their maternal grandparents took her in after their mother's death, but only Sadie. Julius takes them to the British Museum to study the Rosetta Stone. He actually has deeper motives and tries to summon Osiris, the Egyptian god of the Underworld, by using the stone as an anchor. It goes wrong when all the other four major gods are brought out and Set, the Egyptian god of Evil, imprisons Julius. Carter and Sadie see two people, a man and a girl about Carter's age, discussing them, but then Carter blacks out. Carter and Sadie are taken to Brooklyn by their uncle, Amos, who convinces their grandparents to let him and the police to only deport Carter and Sadie. Amos decides to find Set after he imprisons Julius. In the library of the Brooklyn mansion, they begin to discover signs that both sides of their family are descended from the famous pharaohs. Julius's side of the family was descended from Narmer, while their late mother, Ruby, had a family originated from Ramesses the Great. When Sadie and Carter reach New York, it is discussed how in Egyptians lived on the East side of the river because the sun rose in the east, and buried their dead in the west. Sadie had asked why they couldn't live in Manhattan. Amos replied that there are other gods and they should stay separate. They have no clue what to do or who to trust. The mansion is attacked by Set's animals. Sadie's cat, Muffin, turns out be the cat goddess, Bast. She makes quick work of the Set's animals, but the three are forced to run. They go into Manhattan, which Amos said had other non-Egyptian gods. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bast attempts to transport them into the Duat – a magical realm right underneath the mortal realm, but the goddess of scorpions, Serqet, fights Bast and is almost defeated, Bast runs away into the Duat, the realm of death. In the museum, Carter and Sadie find Zia Rashid. She is in the First Nome (Egypt) of the House of Life, with magicians trying to protect people and fight gods. Zia combats Serqet and bans her from her host by using the Seven Ribbons of Hathor spell, but it somehow doesn't work and Zia reveals that the Seven Ribbons takes a lot of energy and can be used in every few years. Zia takes the two to the First Nome, where old Chief Lector Iskandar – the House of Life leader – and Desjardins – the second-in-command – brought up the assumption that they were both hosts of gods. Iskandar does not speak English, but when Sadie goes for a nighttime walk and touches one of the moving pictures on the wall, he takes her out. Sadie and Iskander have a talk, Sadie somehow speaking in Egyptian. and the old Chief Lector tells her about the hosts. They begin to realize their very important role in the plan of the Gods. Sadie and Carter also realize they are hosts to the two gods Isis and Horus, respectively. The next day, the two siblings begin their training. Zia teaches them the concept of casting hieroglyphs to use magic. Carter surprises Sadie and Zia by summoning a combat falcon avatar of the war god Horus. Their training is disrupted when a magician informs Zia that Iskandar is dead and Desjardins is next in line to be guardian for the throne of Egypt. Recognizing that Desjardins would want to kill them (as hosts to Isis and Horus), Sadie creates a portal and she and Carter escape to Paris, but not before bringing sphinxes with them. Bast, who is fine, takes care of them and Carter and Sadie infiltrate Desjardins' house, in Paris, so they can take a Book Of Thoth to try and defeat Set. They find out that Carter can turn into a falcon and Sadie into a kite, but she cannot change back. Fruit bats attack them when they find the book, and magicians follow them when they run. Carter, Sadie, and Bast run to the Louvre and transport to the U.S. ending up at the Washington Monument. In Washington, D.C they are chased by the Set animal, who Carter named Leroy. Carter stays back at the airport to fight Leroy, reaches into Paris, where he dropped his swords, and battles Leroy. He throws Leroy in his Duat 'locker' - a short opening to the Duat - and manages to catch the airplane to Memphis, Tennessee, where the wisdom god, Thoth, is. They use tickets given to Sadie by Nut, the sky goddess, who also gives Sadie a letter to give to her husband, Geb, the Earth god. The two have been separated by Shu, Nut's father the wind god, who was ordered that they never see each other again. When they finish Thoth's test, they learn that they were supposed to go the Underworld/Land of the Dead. Because Sadie proved to Anubis, god of funerals, she is trustworthy, he gives the Feather of Truth to her. They then continue from New Orleans to Texas, where Carter fights Sobek, but is hopelessly outmatched and outclassed even with the combat avatar. Amos saves them but Bast and Sobek are expelled to the Duat. The only thing left of Bast is Muffin, the cat she inhabited. They go to New Mexico, as Zia wanted Carter there and the earth god Geb told Sadie too. It turns out that Desjardins had known this and a fight occurs. Thanks to Zia's plan, they defeat Sekhmet, the lion goddess of battle, and drive onwards to Arizona. They spot the Red Pyramid, which is Set's main host. When they arrive, Amos faints, and Set reveals he was hosting Amos. Carter merges completely with Horus and becomes the ''eye'' of the war god. He puts up a good fight but Set's strength grows when dawn approaches and the desert glows. Sadie learns from a dying Zia that Set's secret name is Evil Day. She combines with Isis, the magic goddess inside her, and transports Carter and Sadie along with herself to Washington, D.C. Sadie banishes Set to the Duat, reading the book and using the Feather of Truth along with his secret name. Just then, Set's serpent appears. He is the host of Apophis, the Serpent of Chaos itself. Even though Carter kills the serpent, it is Sadie who rubs the picture of the snake in the sky. They come back for Zia, who turns out to be a shabti, a wax doll, and urges Carter to find the real Zia Rashid. They return to the Brooklyn mansion and rebuild the place with magic. Amos leaves for the First Nome to be healed from being possessed by Set. Carter and Sadie are paid a visit by Osiris, who was bonded with their father. They even see the ghost of their mother who was accompanying Julius. The god of the dead gives them his ''djed'' amulet to attract other things. The siblings release Horus and Isis, who vanish away into the Duat but not before preserving a quarter of their power in the amulets Julius had given them a long time ago. Carter and Sadie store the amulets in Carter's Duat locker and put the ''djed'' amulet with it. Once kids began to come, they would teach them divine magic or the path of the gods, which involved channeling a god's power. In the end, Carter and Sadie find their father. Julius decides that he would like to stay with his wife; Carter and Sadie now live with their uncle Amos. At the end of the book, the gods promise a gift to Carter and Sadie which shows up at Amos' mansion: Bast and fixing the ruined mansion. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Red Pyramid (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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