LMAO.....
"Egyptians often used the words brother and sister as terms of endearment when addressing their spouses, leading some early Nineteenth Century Egyptologists to speak of brother-sister marriages. We now know that while first cousin marriages were not uncommon, anything closer was as unacceptable then as it would be today, though men often married a deceased wife's sister. The one exception to this rule was the King of Egypt who often married his sister. Early scholars were quite repulsed by this idea and developed the heiress theory by which inheritance passed through the female line. A male would become pharaoh but only by marrying the heiress princess who under normal circumstances was the potential king's sister. More and more Egyptologists are now discarding this idea forcing us to seek new reasons for the large number of brother-sister, father-daughter marriages.
Marriage between two families creates one much larger family which may have been an advantage to the general population but was a distinct disadvantage to royalty. Kings wanted an heir and a spare, but a family that expanded beyond that point may simply be creating potential rivals for the throne.
Marriage was the norm for Egyptians, but where does a princess find a husband of equal rank since marriage to a foreign prince was definitely not allowed. Brother-sister and even father-daughter marriages provided some solution to this problem.
It has also been suggested that brother-sister marriage was a way for Pharaohs to emulate the gods and goddesses and to set themselves apart from the rest of the population.
We in the Twentieth Century tend to think of kings as ordinary people with extra-ordinary jobs. The Ancient Egyptian believed their Pharaoh was a god and not at all like an ordinary man. Perhaps marriage to a sister was seen as a way of increasing the amount of royal blood in the next heir.
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http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/brother-sister%20marriage.htm
http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/marriage in ancient egypt.htm
lol.....who is lying...?....
"There was no specific age at which a youngster would be considered to be grown-up. Uha was circumcised, together with one hundred and twenty men, and one hundred and twenty women,[SIZE=-2][21][/SIZE] which has been interpreted as meaning that the circumcision was done to men as a rite of passage. A few officials wrote about fastening on the girdle which seems to have been a ritual preceding the assumption of duties we would consider to be adult responsibilities
[I was a child] who fastened on the girdle under the majesty of Teti; my office was that of supervisor of [....] and I filled the office of inferior custodian of the domain of Pharaoh.
Marrying, establishing a household, raising children and taking care of old relatives who were left without a home, were duties of the adult. [SIZE=-2]The Inscription of Weni[/SIZE]
I grew up in the town of Nekheb, my father being a soldier of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Sekenenre, the justified. Baba son of Reinet was his name. I became a soldier in his stead on the ship "The Wild Bull" in the time of the Lord of the Two Lands, Nebpehtire, the justified. I was a youth who had not married; I slept in a hammock of netting. Now when I had established a household, I was taken to the ship "Northern", because I was brave.
Apart from some child marriages arranged for dynastic reasons, most young people got married when they were economically and physically ready to do so. For girls this often happened shortly after the beginning of menstruation; boys, who were expected to provide a home for their wife, were a few years older. His majesty gave to him the king's eldest daughter, Matkha as his wife, for his majesty desired that she should be with him more than with anyone; Ptahshepses. "[SIZE=-2]Autobiography of Ahmose, son of Abana[/SIZE]
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/people/childhood.htm
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