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181 disguised as the queen's husband—entered the inner sanctum of the queen's nighttime chamber: Then came the glorious god, Amun himself, Lord of the thrones of the Two Lands, When he had taken the form of her husband. They found her sleeping in the beautiful sanctuary; She awoke at the perfume of the god, merrily laughed in the face of his majesty. Enfiamed with love, he She could behold him, in When he had come nearer to her. he in hastened 1 the shape toward of a her; god, She exulted at the sight of his beauty; His love entered into all her limbs. The place was filled with the god's sweet perfume. The majestic god did to her all that he wished. She gladdened him with all of herself; She kissed him. To further strengthen her claim to divinely ordained King- ship, Hatshepsut asserted that she was nursed by the goddess Hathor, mistress of the southern Sinai where the turquoise mines were and whose Egyptian name, Hat-Hor ("House/ Abode of Horus"), signified her role in raising and protecting the young god after his father Osiris was slain by Seth. Ha- thor, whose nickname was The Cow, was depicted with cow's horns or alternatively as a cow; and the decorations in Hats- hepsut's temple showed the queen being nursed by the god- dess-cow, suckling on her udder (Fig. 57). In the absence of a claim to semidivinity, the son and successor of Thothmes IN, called Amenophis II, also asserted that he was suckled by Hathor, and ordered that he so be depicted on temple walls (Fig. 58). But a later successor, Ramses II (1304-1237 B.C.) asserted again that his was a divine birth by recording the following secret revelation by the god Ptah to the Pharaoh: Encounters in the GIGUNU