. Kings and gods of Egypt . otter, who gives theirforms to gods and men, declares to Amon that hewill so fashion the royal child that her beauty shallsurpass the beauty of the gods, so that she maybe the better fitted to fulfil her mission as ruler ofthe two The following scene shows usAhmasi in labour (Fig. 3). The Queen is seatedin an arm-chair which is placed on a platformshaped like a bed; Isis and Nephthys hold herby the arms, according to the eastern custom;the new-born child is presented to protecting god- es, who breathe into her and her double thebreath of life. Then is shown
. Kings and gods of Egypt . otter, who gives theirforms to gods and men, declares to Amon that hewill so fashion the royal child that her beauty shallsurpass the beauty of the gods, so that she maybe the better fitted to fulfil her mission as ruler ofthe two The following scene shows usAhmasi in labour (Fig. 3). The Queen is seatedin an arm-chair which is placed on a platformshaped like a bed; Isis and Nephthys hold herby the arms, according to the eastern custom;the new-born child is presented to protecting god- es, who breathe into her and her double thebreath of life. Then is shown the presentation ofthe child to Amon, her real father, who clasps,-sses, and rocks her whom he loves above allthings. and add- to her these words of welcome: Come, come in p daughter of my loins, whom I love, royal image, thou who wiltmake real thy risings on the throne of the Horns oi living, forever! Nfexl. I Eatshopsitu is shown at Detr-d-Bahari i> ii ) Dnt ,1 Bakari, ii, PI. M VIII. Ubid , 11, PI. LI •8 au <riSi I 6 21 22 Kings and Gods of Egypt acknowledged and worshipped by the other gods,while the divine promises made to her are dulyinscribed upon the celestial Such bas-reliefs of the theogony and birth ofHatshopsitu were certainly injurious to the bas-tard Pharaoh, Thotmes III, who could not, likehis queen, boast of a divine origin. Nor could hefind pleasure in other pictures which formed asequence to these and showed how Hatshopsitu,called to the throne by her divine father, Amon-Ra,was crowned indeed by her human father ThotmesI, and became Queen of Egypt through the willof the gods and of men. As a reply to the inscription telling how ThotmesIII received the crown from the hands of Ra, whenthe machinations of the priesthood placed him onthe throne, Hatshopsitu desired to be depictedwearing the pschent, after a visit to the gods ofHeliopolis. There, Atoum placed the diademupon her head, as a suggestion to the Egyptiansand to the gods of
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