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Message: <blockquote data-quote="diamonddrago" data-source="post: 7786083" data-attributes="member: 243828">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."<a href="http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/brother-sister%20marriage.htm" target="_blank">http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/brother-sister%20marriage.htm</a><a href="http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/marriage%20in%20ancient%20egypt.htm" target="_blank">http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/marriage in ancient egypt.htm</a>lol.....who is lying...?....<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />"There was no specific age at which a youngster would be considered to be  grown-up. <a href="http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/uha.htm" target="_blank">Uha</a>  was circumcised, together with one hundred and twenty men, and one  hundred and twenty women,[SIZE=-2][<a href="http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/people/childhood.htm#rem21" target="_blank">21</a>][/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. [SIZE=-2]<a href="http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/weni.htm" target="_blank">The  Inscription of Weni</a>[/SIZE]      Marrying, establishing a household, raising children and taking care of  old relatives who were left without a home, were duties of the adult. 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. [SIZE=-2]<a href="http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/ahmose_inscription.htm" target="_blank">Autobiography  of Ahmose,  son of Abana</a>[/SIZE]      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. "<a href="http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/people/childhood.htm" target="_blank">http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/people/childhood.htm</a></blockquote>

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