Note 61 — Hercules [60]

The same transformation of the divine procreator into the form of the human father is found in the birth history of the Egyptian queen, Hatshepset (about 1500 before Christ), who believes that the god Amen cohabited with her mother, Aahames, in the form of her father, Thothmes the First (see Budge: A History of Egypt, V; Books on Egypt and Chaldea, Vol. XII, p. 21, etc.). Later on she married her brother, Thothmes II, presumably the Pharaoh of Exodus, after whose dishonorable death she endeavored to eradicate his memory, and herself assumed the rulership, in masculine fashion (cp. the Deuteronium, edited by Schrader, II ed., 1902).