Edited sentence: A person of equal rank, especially one who had undergone initiation into adulthood in the same cohort, was referred to as a brother or sister.An elected king might be given a royal princess in marriage in order to solidify his claim to power.Even though the kings and kandakes were elected, the Kushites also had royal families who were descended from past kings and kandakes, and ranking priests and generals.Following the election she was consecrated in an elaborate ceremony that lasted several weeks and included visiting the city Napata, and the holy mountain of Jebel Barkal.Hence a governor of a province might be referred to as the son of the kandake, even those they were not biologically related.However, there is no record that the parliament ever demanded the suicide of a kandake.However, they had a great deal of power.It is unclear what the kushites called their parliament, nor how its members were selected.Moreover, the custom of referring to others as if they were family members was the peculiar product of the use of the Age Set system.Or the king might choose a royal princess as High Priestess of Amun (or of the lionheaded deity named Apedemak).Persons older than oneself were mothers or fathers.The Candacate was an elective office, and was not hereditary.The Kandake was elected by a grand parliament.The Kushite parliament had the unique practice of deposing kings by ordering them to commit suicide.The members of the Kushite parliament also doubled as priests and national elders.The precinct of the Kushite Parliament was always sacred, and the persona of the members of parliament were involable.There is confusion regarding the issue of inherited offices resulting from the fact that the Kushite rulers routinely referred to subordinates as sons or daughters