The story of Amun’s rise to supremacy over the Egyptian pantheon is inseparable from the story of how Thebes rose from an insignificant speck on the map to the spiritual center of the Egyptian universe.
This account of the ascent of Thebes and the god Amun sets the background for a series that will investigate an order of female pontiffs called the God’s Wives of Amun and how these tributaries converge into the ethos, or pathos, of the Heretic King, Akhenaten.
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Tags: Ahhotep I, Ahmose I, Amun, Apepi, Avaris, Eleventh Dynasty, Fifteenth Dynasty, First Intermediate Period, Gods Wife of Amun, Herakleopolis, Hyksos, Intef II, Kamose, Karnak, Khamudi, Mentuhotep II, Middle Kingdom, Montu, New Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period, Seqenenre Tao II, Sixteenth Dynasty, Thebes, Thirteenth Dynasty, Tjaru
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Tags: Aahotepre, Aaneterire, Amu, Anat-Her, Bebankh, Hyksos, Jacob-Baal, Khamure, Khauserre, Kysos, Nebmaatre, Nikare II, Nubankhre, Nubuserre, Pelusium, Pepi III, Qar, Saite Faction, Second Intermediate Period, Semqen, Sixteenth Dynasty, User-Anat, Wasa, Yakbam, Yakbum, Yoam, Zaket
