Santiago arrives at an abandoned church, where he decides to spend the night. While sleeping he has a disturbing dream, which we don't find out about, the dream is the same as the one he had one year ago around the same time. When he wakes he talks to his sheep about a young girl who he had meet in this town the year prior. While meeting her he experienced, for the first time, the desire to stay in a single place for the remainder of his life. The girl was a merchant’s daughter who Santiago had sold sheep. The merchant had asked him to return the next year.
Santiago recalls his childhood, he was raised to become a priest. He also recalls the day he told his father he wanted to travel instead. The next day his father gave him three gold coins to go and buy a flock of sheep. His father had told him many things that day and Santiago thinks about them. He then remembers there is a woman in the town he is travelling to that deciphers dreams. He decides to visit her.
He goes to the gypsy and she listens to his dream. He tells her he has a dream that a child is playing with his sheep and telling him about treasure at the pyramids. But right before he tells the exact location Santiago wakes up. The gypsy tells Santiago he must go to the pyramids to find the treasure; she says she knows it is real because a child was the one to say it. She also says she will not charge him for her service, but want ten percent of the treasure when he finds it.
Later while reading Santiago is approached by a man who asks him many question. The man tells him about fate and Personal Legend. He introduces himself as Melchizedek, the King of Salem. Santiago has never heard of such a place and begins to think the man is crazy. The old man then says he know about the treasure and also about Santiago. Things the man should not know. He asks for 1/10 of Santiago’s sheep and he will tell him where the treasure is.
The meeting upsets Santiago and he wander throughout the city. He decides to sell his sheep and take 1/10 to Melchizedek. Melchizedek says Santiago can find his treasure in Egypt at the pyramids. Santiago is annoyed he does not give a more exact location, and then his first omen appears, a butterfly. Melchizedek then give Santiago two stones called Urim and Thummim, they represent “yes” and “no”, and they will help Santiago read his omens. Melchizedek’s last advice to Santiago was that he mustn’t forget his flock.
Santiago makes it to Africa. And goes to a bar in the port town he has arrived in. He meets another young man who speaks Spanish like him and begins to explain his goal. The young man offers to be his guide and Santiago agrees. The young man says they need to buy camels and take Santiago to a market place where he asks for money to buy the camels. Santiago soon realizes the young man disappeared. He waits for him until nightfall, and then realizes he has been robbed of all his money.
He sleeps in the market place and awakens to merchants setting up their shops. He helps a man selling candy you offers him his first sweet. They communicate in different languages and in the language without words. Santiago decides to keep walking. He finds a crystal merchant and does service for him in exchange for food. He asks the man if he can clean all his crystal in return for money to get to Egypt. The man says it is so expensive that he could not earn enough money in a year, but offers him a job. Santiago agrees and takes the job.
He goes to the gypsy and she listens to his dream. He tells her he has a dream that a child is playing with his sheep and telling him about treasure at the pyramids. But right before he tells the exact location Santiago wakes up. The gypsy tells Santiago he must go to the pyramids to find the treasure; she says she knows it is real because a child was the one to say it. She also says she will not charge him for her service, but want ten percent of the treasure when he finds it.
Later while reading Santiago is approached by a man who asks him many question. The man tells him about fate and Personal Legend. He introduces himself as Melchizedek, the King of Salem. Santiago has never heard of such a place and begins to think the man is crazy. The old man then says he know about the treasure and also about Santiago. Things the man should not know. He asks for 1/10 of Santiago’s sheep and he will tell him where the treasure is.
The meeting upsets Santiago and he wander throughout the city. He decides to sell his sheep and take 1/10 to Melchizedek. Melchizedek says Santiago can find his treasure in Egypt at the pyramids. Santiago is annoyed he does not give a more exact location, and then his first omen appears, a butterfly. Melchizedek then give Santiago two stones called Urim and Thummim, they represent “yes” and “no”, and they will help Santiago read his omens. Melchizedek’s last advice to Santiago was that he mustn’t forget his flock.
Santiago makes it to Africa. And goes to a bar in the port town he has arrived in. He meets another young man who speaks Spanish like him and begins to explain his goal. The young man offers to be his guide and Santiago agrees. The young man says they need to buy camels and take Santiago to a market place where he asks for money to buy the camels. Santiago soon realizes the young man disappeared. He waits for him until nightfall, and then realizes he has been robbed of all his money.
He sleeps in the market place and awakens to merchants setting up their shops. He helps a man selling candy you offers him his first sweet. They communicate in different languages and in the language without words. Santiago decides to keep walking. He finds a crystal merchant and does service for him in exchange for food. He asks the man if he can clean all his crystal in return for money to get to Egypt. The man says it is so expensive that he could not earn enough money in a year, but offers him a job. Santiago agrees and takes the job.
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