I must remind readers, this is about a royal family in ancient Egypt and they are not aware of genetics. And girls were married off really early. And I do not believe incest is good or right. But this is a herstory lesson and we must be honest about how things were back than.
Meketaten
Queen Tiye
So it would seem to be the end of or tale, except...
the new queen
So in short , no-one is allowed to say I said incest was alright behavior. I do not wish to validate it, as such, for any victims or predators who might read this.
This stuff did happen and was excepted in that time and place.
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Remember Queen Tye?
Yeah, she is still around. At least for now.
One day her and her entourage made an entrance at Amarna.
"Situe's here!" the children ran around and sang.
Meketaten, Neferneferure, Setepenre, Meritaten, Nefernefeuaten Taserit, Ankhesenpaaten and brother danced around and asked "Where's our presies?!"
Ah children are all about the bling. Smiling Tiye handed out bags of gold and lapis jewelry. And candies made of pistachio nuts and apricot.
"Go play, now children."
It is late in the 12th year of her son's reign. She sees her granddaughter Meketaten is pregnant.
"This way, Mother." says Ankenaten as he waves away the mass of on looker. His mother is considered a goddess as is his wife. His mother was even designated a goddess and worshipped as such in Nubia. She was called Hathor-tefnut there. This of course means "when local girl makes it good, you best kneel to her greatness"! You see, her husband started a rumor she was part Nubia these rumors are great for politics. And who knows who diddled who past a few generations. It could have been true. but now she was on the Royal roster and never was before he meet her, her past was his to write. Anyway she liked the attention, who doesn't like being a goddess by beautiful men... I mean the beautiful people of Nubia.
"Make way for the Queen Mum!" yells a young man servant dressed in very little.
"I approve of the servant's attire " Tiye says while looking at the posterior of the servant smiling.
Anhenaten brings her to the Table, in a place of honor, as servant scurry to bring pomegranate wine, beer, watermelon, figs, Syria's bread, and other foods. What a spread!
Nefertiti and Ankhenaten sit as well.
Tiye is poured some wine. the cup comes close to her lips. She looks around.
"Nefertiti, is this your special wine."
"Why yes it is, mother." Nefertiti says smiling.
"Dear, I insist you drink it first."
Ahnkenanten looks confused, eyes shifting from one to the other goddesses in his life. "Why."
"She just looks very thirsty dear. I think she has been in the vision place in the dessert again."
Tiye narrows her gaze at her son's wife.
"Right she is, Honey, just saw the latest episode of Nip Tuck. They said having sex with your family is not good. Silly visions. Do you think you should stop marrying our daughters to yourself?" Nefertiti drinks the wine down in one gulp and heavily brings the cup back to the table. And narrows her gaze back at her Mother-in-law hardly noticing that she broke the glass.
Tiye drinks it down, in one gulp as well. "Get my daughter another Phoenician glass, gorgeous!" She says with a wink and a goose to the Nubia servant.
"Son, I think my granddaughter is too young to be with child. Have I not told you not to bed them until they are 15, it's just not healthy."
Akhenaten looks back and forth to his goddesses again.
"Mother, why the pleasure of your company? How are things in Thebes?"
"Not good. That is why I came here. Anen tells me that the buzz around the temples are revolting."
Anhkenaten looks at his mother quizzically. "Anen, your brother, Second Prophet of Amun?"
"Yes that's the one. He says the people are turning against you, they never took to this Aten stuff. One and only god. I think it might be too soon for this concept. Have you thought of maybe Aten and Amun. We could sell little moon and sun chariot chains, necklaces, charms, wind chimes. The marketing possibilities are endless."
"Uncle Anen's idea, huh? I like my Great Aten. Hey! Why hasn't Uncle Anen supported me? He never gives me credit for anything I do. Maybe I should behead him."
"Don't get all Henry the 8th on us." Nefertiti says rolling her eyes.
"Who?" Akhenaten asks.
"You really need to go to the temple of visions in the dessert more, son. Dear, I love that series of vision, too." She turns to her son "Yes, what do you think this is England. We just marry more women here if we want more, not behead them. And come on son, have you never heard of poison and assassins! That's how we get rid of our political rivals here. " She takes a sip of wine. "Don't you even think of assassinating my brother, son. I like that one. He was always so nice to me growing up."
"Mom I don't want to here that story again. He and everyone else will have to just live with Aten. I am the Pharaoh, and that is what I say."
"So be it. But mark my words this is a mistake. See, I already made up some demos of the hair charms. And the children just love them!"
"MOTHER."
"O.k. o.k. o.k., Maybe it's just a whim of an old woman. Pass the bread and that dip." She takes some bread and takes the beige mush in her mouth. "Mmmmmm, who made this?"
Nefertiti smiles "It was my recipe, Keye, poor Keye, gave me the idea, shortly before her , um untimely death."
"She's dead?" Tiye raised her head. "Well she didn't last long."
"Yes, we were so sad, poor girl." Nefertiti makes the international sign for lush.
"Oh, yeah, one of my sister wives was that way , too. " Tiye sipped more wine. "Your father's recipe, dear." She sneared.
"Oh, no." said Nefertiti "A candlestick in the bedroom."
Now all this loving family chatter went on for a while. And it was time for Tiye to say good bye to her loving family and especially her favorite pregnant granddaughter, Meketaten.
MeketatenTime had passed and soon came the time of her favorite granddaughter to give birth to her great grandchild and grandchild so Tiye made her way back to Amarna for the event.
Unfortunately health care is not what it is today. She passing in the trying.
Tiye was so heart broken, for she had warned her son, she stayed on.
Soon came the plague.
No not the swarm of locust or frogs.
Who comes up with a plague of frogs anyway? "Ooooooooo, frogs! Someone call the French for their frog leg recipe!" Luckily the Pharaoh at the time had a chef from Gaul at the palace. You know, very little people realize before that plague of frogs there was a bout of a famine. The plague of frogs took care of it right away. Everyone was too full to remember a god was angry at them or which one for that matter. They actually thought that God liked them, rewarding them for their industriousness in the slave trade. After that, God never tried to punish people with a plague of frogs again.
Go ahead, try to find more than one plague of frogs in the bible. Can't find it. No. There was a page ripped out of the bible. That was the one with the recipe for frog legs. Some people just don't want you figuring that one out. It's like the whole Easter bunny popping out chocolate eggs on Easter. But enough of mysteries of the Bible.
So plague, the bad kind that kill people, came to Amarna.
So the great queen Tiye did die. She was buried along side her favorite granddaughter. Down the hall was buried a few more of her granddaughters. And later, sadly her son, Ahkanaten.
Queen Tiye
So it would seem to be the end of or tale, except...Nefertiti disappears and arises from the plague the Pharaoh Smenkhkare. Looking very effeminate and a lot like the old queen in that new royal blue beard. Along side her, um, I mean him is Queen Meritaten, Nefertiti's daughter.
the new queen
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Entertaining! I'm not quite sure I get it, but, entertaining nonetheless. Will there be a part 5?
Yes. There will be a part 5 and maybe 6.
I think I am too into Egyptology. I might have left common knowlege behind some where.
I wondered how the whole incest thing was going to pan out.
I tend to see history as in the time frame, some where in there I remembered most people see history with the morals and values of today. That's why I wrote the bit about incest before the chapter.
No, incest is never a good thing. I know you don't have to tell anyone that but in this politically correct day and age, you never know who might take offence.
The Egyptology thing is interesting. That part of history never really appealed to me as I felt I couldn't relate too much like I can with English history, but I'm learning something new, even though you've put your own touches on it.
As far as I know about Egyptology are the pyramids, sphinx, pharaohs, and what it said in Exodus, Moses, let my people go blah blah blah. But it's interesting to learn through your eyes as it was never really covered in school, European history and the Roman Empire usually took priority over Egypt unfortunately.
I know what you mean, about what we are taught in school. It does seem European history briefly takes important. American history takes over for the majority for most of the time. At least when I was a kid. My wee ones history classes are not much better.
One of my children came home from school and had asked me about King Tutankhamun. I had always said his full name at home. I had explained the story behind him. And kept up with the latest info about the time period.
The teacher did not. Because the teacher didn't know his full name she told my child they were wrong when they used the full name. And everything is a mystery. No-one in school has an answer. How were the pyramids build: no-one knows. How did Tutankhamun die: no-one knows.
Well people know now. So it's very frustrating.
I probably got really into it because Tutankhamun craze swept America when I was a wee one myself. Than later the Ramses the Great exhibit came through.
Yes! Especially American history, which I excelled at enough to put me in the advanced class senior year with all the wicked smaht kids, that and I liked the teacher that year, I was the only one who laughed at his jokes often times. A very dry wit, which I enjoy, clearly. He often referred to the atomic age and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as "wholesale death," to which I wryly giggled.
I digress, apologies. Yes, it's like American schools only want kids to learn about American history and nothing else about the world around them. It's a shame about the dumbing down of America, and it's starting in the schools.
Sorry about the rant! It's definitely a trigger point for me which once you get me going it's hard for me to stop.
Have you ever seen the film "The History Boys"? I wish school was like that, that instead of like here, where students try to seem as dumb as possible, that students would be cleverer and try to outsmart each other.
No, I haven't seen it yet. It is actually on my list.
As your daughter grows up you will probably be teaching her at home just to give her what she isn't getting at school.
They want them just to regurgitate facts for tests. than they dump the knowledge and replace. This is what the "smaht" kids art doing. The ones that excel at school. If you talk to the ones that the school think are dumb, that's where you are going to find the kids who will learn. But they learn at their pace and their interests. Not caring what the school want them to regurgitate they do badly on tests.
Because of my daughters dyslexia, she is in the dumb class. She disagrees with the teacher all the time and can back up what she says.
Snicker Snicker Snicker.
But the smart kids don't get her either. She's not regurgitating knowledge. He learning disability requires her to learn the material and keep it in her head.
I wonder did any great creative person graduate tops in class at any non-art school in America?
Bill Gates dropped out didn't he?
I just hope that I can teach Sierra well so she can get ahead. My parents just let the schools take care of me, the only thing they really developed in me was the sense of geography, which was actually from my grandparents. They would go on trips and show me their slides, they had a cabinet full of maps. Every state. I would go into the cabinet and study the maps for hours on end. I would plan trips cross-country with what hotels I would stay in, even the radio stations I would listen to along the way as some of the maps even had radio listings. I would draw my own maps. My neighborhood, my state, then the world beyond. I even created my own world and all the places were in their own language (Sdrawkcab - backwards for backwards) modeled on North America. I never get lost when I drive. I memorise maps.
I'm insane.
;0)
My older kids would kind of do that with their grand and aunts.
They traveled more than me. Mostly because of money and children. Children do suck the money out of you anyway.
So I take them to local stuff a lot. And of course my love of history. Art museums. Great for history they don't teach in school.
You do what you can. If they ask a question, I give them the long answer and teach them how to look it up. teaching how to find knowledge is something the people I know take for granted. But young people, children know how to find something on youtube but not how to complete their homework. Mine have known how to find the answer outside of their school books.
WARNING: if it is not the same answer that is in the book you have to go down and explain to the teacher the book is wrong or there is more than one answer and you need to change the grade on that paper.
My mother was big on outside education.
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