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To: Carolyn who wrote (3085)	9/16/2014 12:20:46 AM
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I had a lovely lady friend & partner who had adopted this intelligent, precocious female irish wolf hound/german shepard from the pound & named her "Zootsie" who was just a huge girl. Barb later informed me that she had named her after the Egyptian queen 'Hatshepsut' so this was when i first heard of this ruler ( and Zootsie really lived up to her name, she was a queen ! ). Zootsie looked just like this and the whole couch was her throne ! ;0) (we humans do love our animals, great & small...and they love & guard us in return )

To: Carolyn who wrote (3085)	9/16/2014 12:55:48 AM
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Hatshepsut could never openly rule as a queen back in Egypt since still an all male affair & kings were expected to do great things while also like wise making great preparations for the extension of this beautiful life into the next world eternal. The Egyptians were quite enthusiastic about living in general & that rich Nile river provided fertililty for wealth of grain production, which afforded them for centuries that tremendous surplus energy to expend on these huge phenomenal homeland temple projects. By contrast a nomadic people would have to adapt their "God & Temple" to encompass a mobile shepherding existence to be carried around with them. To my mind they are all forms of the same expression of love of life & revrence for creation. We do see much later on as Rome's apex of expansionism finds revenues generated from the provinces dwindling while gov't has gotten too big/out of control . We can also imagine how taxing the added situation would also arise maintaining such huge numbers of temple complexes to such large pantheon of multiple gods. ( Gov't getting too big, too much taxation, ring any bells? ;0) Hatshepsut set the bar pretty high for the young king Thutmose with the success of her naval expedition to the Land of Punt which involved five ships which for them back then was a pretty awesome adventure, like the first early crossings of the Atlantic and more. The queen/mother of Punt was depicted as quite a hefty gal, Egyptians always drawing themselves as the strong slender graceful gazelles as were most of their gods. en.wikipedia.org The wife of the ruler of Punt from Hatshepsut's Deir el-Bahri monument.