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179 Figure 55 picted on temple walls—Fig. 55) by various kings and queens, especially during the eighteenth dynasty (1567-1320 B.C.). The mother of the first Pharaoh of this dynasty was given the title (probably posthumously) "Spouse of the god Amon-Ra," and the title passed from mother to daughter in succession. When the Pharaoh Thothmes I (also spelled Thothmose, Thutmosis) died, he left behind a daughter (Hats- hepsut) mothered by his legitimate wife and a son born by a concubine. In order to legitimize his reign after their father died, the son (known as Thothmes II) married his half sister Hatshepsut; but when he died after a short reign, the only son he had was a young boy mothered by a harem girl; Hatshepsut herself bore one or two daughters, but had no son. (In our opinion Hatshepsut, when still a princess bearing the title The Pharaoh's Daughter, was the biblical Pharaoh's Daughter who raised the Hebrew boy, calling him "Mose" after the divine prefix of her dynasty, eventually adopting him as her son; but that is another subject). At first Hatshepsut held the reins as a coregent with her half brother (who some twenty-two years later became the Pharaoh Thothmes/Tuthmose IID. But then she decided that the Kingship was rightfully only hers, and had _ herself crowned as a Pharaoh (accordingly, her depictions on temple walls showed her with an attached false beard .. .). To legitimize her coronation and ascension to the throne of Osiris, Hatshepsut had the following statement put into the Egyptian royal records regarding her mother's conception of her: Encounters in the GIGUNU