Title: God's wife, God's servant : the God's Wife of Amun (c. 740-525 BC) /
Authors: Ayad, Mariam F.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Amon Cult.; Mut; Temple of Amon (Karnak, Egypt); Princesses Egypt History.; Titles of honor and nobility Egypt History.; Royal houses Egypt History.; Egypt History; Egypt Religious life and customs.; Egypt History; Egypt Antiquities.; Egypt History
Contents: 1. The historical setting -- God's Wife: historical development and associated titles -- God's Wife prior to the New Kingdom -- God's Wife during the New Kingdom -- The mythic conception I. Atum and the Heliopolitan creation myth -- The mythic conception II: the king's divine conception -- Egypt at the end of the New Kingdom -- Egypt during the Libyan period -- Nubians in Egypt -- Libyan and Nubian God's Wives of Amun -- Egypt under Saite rule -- Nitocris -- Ankhnesneferibre: the last God's Wife of Amun -- Amun, Mut, and the "throne names" of the God's Wives -- 2. Rites and rituals -- Entertaining the gods -- The sistrum, the menat-necklace and objects sacred to Hathor -- Provisioning the gods: offerings to the gods -- Building houses for the gods/dedicating shrines -- Partnering with the king 1: Symmetrically opposed scenes -- Partnering with the king 2: "For god, king, and country" -- Other rites of "royal and divine" dominion -- Celebrating the sed festival -- 3. Avenues to legitimacy -- Assumption of the priesthood -- God's Wife and initiation rites -- Avenues to legitimacy -- Adoption, succession to office, and age at appointment -- Sexuality, celibacy and the sexual role of the God's Wife -- The end of the God's Wife as an institution -- The legacy of the God's Wives of Amun.