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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Sex and Love in Ancient Egypt

Although Egypt used to have a god for sex and fertility named Amun Min, we found  unusual sex scenes on the walls of the temples

 Sex is a divine action between the father of the gods Amun Re and the mother of the king to give her baby the divine birth to be the king of Egypt. Amun Re is depicted as a man with Two high feathers on his head

Amun Min is depicted as a man with the crown of Amun Re with one raised arm and with an erected cock as shown in this foto in the temple of Karnak in Luxor east. Amun Min symbolizes the fertility power of Amun Re 



 This is to justify the postion of the king as the ruler of North and South of Egypt. In this depiction the king shows his mother and the god Amun Re touching each other with hands and not full intercourse. As a result of this action the queen is shown as a pregnant woman taken by the goddesses to the delivery room 


 In the delivery room you will see the divine baby being taken care of by goddesses


 It is very interesting scene to see the king kneeling under goddess Hathor in the form of the cow and drinking the milk  from her breast to show off his divine blood to be the chosen king of Egypt
The king under the cow goddess Hathor

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