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Women were generally relegated to lower positions in the temple hierarchy, although some held specialized and influential positions, especially that of the God's Wife of Amun, whose religious importance overshadowed the High Priests of Amun in the Late Period.
Another jar from the same tomb — which was discovered in situ by a 1935 – 1936 Metropolitan Museum of Art expedition on a hillside near Thebes — was stamped with the seal of the ' God's Wife Hatshepsut ' while two jars bore the seal ofThe Good Goddess Maatkare ’</ ref > The dating of the amphorae, " sealed into the burial chamber by the debris from Senenmut's own tomb ," is undisputed which means that Hatshepsut was acknowledged as the king of Egypt by Year 7 of her reign.
During her father's reign she held the powerful office of God's Wife.
His reign is marked with attempts to break the royal lineage as well, not recording the names of his queens and eliminating the powerful titles and official roles of royal women such as, God's Wife of Amun.
* Amy Tan – The Kitchen God's Wife
Zao Jun's story is interwoven with a feminist spin into the protagonist's story in Amy Tan's novel The Kitchen God's Wife.
The Kitchen God's Wife.
" In Year 4 of his reign, Apries ' sister Ankhnesneferibre was adopted as the new God's Wife of Amun at Thebes.
His predecessor as king of Kush, Kashta, almost certainly exercised a strong degree of influence over Thebes prior to Piye's accession since Kashta managed to have his daughter, Amenirdis I, adopted as the Heiress to the serving God's Wife of Amun, Shepenupet I, prior to the end of his reign.
* God's Wife of Amun Shepenwepet II.
Psamtik reunified Egypt in his 9th regnal year when he dispatched a powerful naval fleet in March 656 BC to Thebes and compelled the existing God's Wife of Amun at Thebes, Shepenupet II to adopt his daughter Nitocris I as her Heiress in the so-called Adoption Stela.
Psamtik and Queen Takhut were also the parents of Menekhubaste, a Priestess of Atum at Heliopolis, and Ankhnesneferibre, a God's Wife of Amun who was served in this powerful office in Upper Egypt through to the remainder of the Saite period in 525 BC when Egypt was conquered by the Persians.
In Ancient Egyptian religion, God's Wife of Amun was the highest ranking priestess ; this title was held by a daughter of the High Priest of Amun, during the reign of Hatshepsut, while the capital of Egypt was in Thebes during the second millennium BC ( circa 2160 BC ).
Amenhotep II did not openly record the names of his queens ; some Egyptologists theorise that he felt that women had become too powerful under titles such as God's Wife of Amun.
Senenmut first enters the historical record on a national level as the " Steward of the God's Wife " ( Hatshepsut ) and " Steward of the King's Daughter " ( Neferure ).
Groom: I, ____, take thee, _____, to be my lawful wedded Wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance ; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
* God's Wife of Amun the highest ranking priestess of the Amun cult
At Thebes, the power of the chief priests of Amun Ramessesnakht grew at the expense of Pharaoh despite the fact that Isis, Ramesses VI's daughter, was connected to the Amun priesthood " in her role as God's Wife of Amun or Divine Adoratice.
The priestesses who acted as ceremonial " wives " of particular gods during the Third Intermediate Period, such as the God's Wife of Amun, had a similar relationship with the gods they served.
The decorations are notable for proving that Osorkon III's daughter, Shepenupet I was still the serving God's Wife of Amun at Karnak and had outlived her two brothers Takelot III and Rudamun by at least three full decades.
Duathathor-Henuttawy, the daughter of Ramesses XI bore him several children: the future pharaoh Psusennes I, the God's Wife of Amun Maatkare, Princess Henuttawy and probably Queen Mutnedjmet, the wife of Psusennes.
* Zaoshen ( 灶神 ), the " God of the Kitchen ", also Zao Jun ( 灶君 ), mentioned in the title of Amy Tan's novel, The Kitchen God's Wife.
** Princess Tashakheper may have served as God's Wife of Amun during the reign of Takelot III
** Princess Karomama C, who may be identical to Karomama Meritmut, a God's Wife of Amun
* God's Wife of Amun

God's and title
Prior to the Crucifixion the Jews are called Israelites, the honorific title of God's chosen people ; after it, they are called " Ioudaioi ", Jews, a sign that through their rejection of the Christ the " kingdom of Heaven " has been taken away from them and given instead to the church.
In Byzantium, Mary's usual title was the Theotokos or Mother of God, rather than the Virgin Mary and it was believed that salvation was delivered to the faithful at the moment of God's incarnation.
It surmises that an omnipotent God annihilated himself in the Big Bang, because an omniscient God would already know everything possible except his own lack of existence, and exists now as the smallest units of matter and the law of probability, or " God's debris ", hence the title.
The title Mishnah Berurah is a reference to the portion in Deuteronomy where Israel is commanded to inscribe God's commandments in large clear writing on a mountainside.
Most notably, the movie's title is a reference to the fourth and most sinister of God's avenging angels of the Apocalypse who rides a pale horse, as told in The Book of Revelation, chapter 6, verse 8: " And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
Christian apologist J. P. Holding cited the title of the song " I Can Only Imagine " as one such example of a desire for " self-fulfillment " taking the place of a proper view of God's holiness.
Also, the title Quicksilver connects the book to the method alchemists used to distill quicksilver, " the pure living essence of God's power and presence in the world ", from, as one character put it, " the base, dark, cold, essentially fecal matter of which the world was made.
The final God's Father title is the one most associated with Ay, and was later incorporated into his royal name when he became pharaoh.
In general, the title Father ( capitalized ) signifies God's role as the life-giver, the authority, and powerful protector, often viewed as immense, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent with infinite power and charity that goes beyond human understanding.
Later, with the publication of God's Little Acre, authorities, at the instigation of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice ( apparently incensed at Caldwell's choice of title ), arrested Caldwell and seized his copies when he went to New York for a book-signing event.
" Muslim rulers preferred this as then they could be referred to as the deputies of God on earth and hence not infringing on God's title, i. e., Lord and master of this earth.
( U. S. edition under title God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible )
Kollam, often anglicized as, is a coastal city on the banks of the Ashtamudi in Kerala a state of India that took on the title ' God's Own Country ' without much demur.
A live album, title Live in Concert: God's Not Dead, is scheduled for release on 22 October 2012.
All six appear in a collected edition under Paizo Publishing's " Planet Stories " imprint, compiled under the title Black God's Kiss.
* Power and Glory: the Making of the King James Bible ( US edition title: God's Secretaries ) ( 2003 ) ( reissued in 2011 as When God Spoke English )
The title comes from the Hebrew word shekhinah, meaning the glory or radiance of God, or God's presence.
The phrase is also the title of a Christian hymn written published in 1816 ; its theme is God's protection of Jerusalem, the eternal home of the saints.
* The Byzantine Emperors held as a title " God's Vicegerent on Earth ".
God's Wife of Amun, a title for a similar office of the high priestess, originated as a title held by a daughter of the High Priest of Amun during the reign of Hatshepsut and continued as an important office while the capital of Egypt remained in Thebes.
Later, the added title of Divine Adoratice of Amun can be seen to accompany a resurgence of the title God's Wife of Amun which had fallen into disuse.

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