Antelope Crown of Sitamen, Queen of Egypt, ‘Neb-Ma’at-Re’, King’s Mother.
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The cartouche of Nebkheperure, Lord of the Many Manifestations of Re, the coronation name of King Tutankhamen. This is the symbol we most often associate with King Tut.
The young Prince Tutankhaten (his birth name) took the throne name of Neb-Kheper-U-Re, which can be translated as “Lord of the Many Manifestations of Re”.
A name similar to his mother and father’s name: Neb-Ma’et-Re. Not many know this, but Sitamen used the name of her father and husband during part of the reign of her brother, Akhenaten, undoubtedly after he ordered all mention of Amen erased from temples, homes and tombs.
I think by taking a throne name associated with the Sun God Re rather than the aspect: Aten, that Tutankhaten managed to reassure his people that things were going to change, that true ‘Ma’at’ would be restored. There were obviously also political reasons behind this.
This whole ‘Aten’ movement began as a power struggle between the Kings of Egypt and the priests of Amen-Re, who controlled by grant of various pharaohs possessions rivaling their kings, as well as the Treasury of the King, though the Queen traditionally had control of that Treasury. These priests of Amen-Re had demanded that Amen-Re be named King of the Gods, but this prerogative belonged to the King, the Pharaoh, the Living God, the Good God. All priests of the Two Lands were only surrogates of the King, his representatives.
Tutankhaten, his Queen, Ankhesenpaaten, and their advisors were not going to just hand back power to these upstart priests. So Memphis, Re and Ptah, were given preference.
Would you believe? Another Update before I even get the last one fixed! –>WordPress 2.5.1! and I made some changes to my editing/writing panel. will they work in the new update? Can I find them again?
I didn’t post about them right away. Okay, found it. Here’s the –>WordPress 2.5 hack to fix the write panel. special thanks to Judy at PersistantIllusion.com, she surely ‘knitted together’ a great hack for the administration.
I’m using a new browser that is lots easier to use: Camino. Only for Macs though.
Also if you are having problems with the Add Media and Media Manager, check out this post on the –>forum by Otto42, I used the no-flash-uploader plugin listed at the bottom. I loved it so much, I checked out –>his blog, and invited him to connect on LinkedIn.
The newest upgrade is not available on my host’s Fantastico yet, though I know Moderators and Developers always say to do a ‘Manual’ upgrade/update. I’m too cowardly to try it. And, considering how fast this new upgrade came up and how many complaints on the –>Wordpress forum, I think I’ll wait awhile. And I’m not updating/upgrading my other –>WordPress blog yet, it’s already messed up for no reason that I could see. Maybe Firefox messed with it.
