MYTHOLOGY (noun.)
1. a collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition.
2. the study of myths
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HATSHEPSUT
Hatshepsut was the longest reigning female pharaoh. She was known as "The Woman Who Was King". Under her reign, Egypt prospered. She directed the construction and repairs of many buildings, memorials, and temples; and the economy flourished. However, upon her death, her successors tried to erase any memory of her.
There's one myth in which the supreme god Ra dreams about a female pharaoh that will fix the Egyptian reign of that time. Thoth, god of knowledge, predicted that she will be the daughter of Thutmose I and Ahmose. Legend tells Tutmose I died before Hatshepsut was conceived, so Ra took his form and got Ahmose pregnant. He then returned to the sky when his daughter was 12 years old. However this is just a myth and we don't have enough sources to verify it.
History says Thutmose I died when Hatshepsut was 12. She then married her brother Thutmose II and reigned as a queen until he passed away when she was 27. Her stepson, Thutmose III, was only a child, so she took the place as regent queen but then she proclaimed herself pharaoh. The people were not sure about that, because Egypt's gods had supposedly decreed that the king's role could never be fulfilled by a woman ruling on her own. But Hatshepsut refused to submit to this and crowned herself pharaoh, changing her name to the male version of hers: Hatshepsu.
Needless to say, she exceeded as pharaoh. She restablished trade routs and commissioned hundreds of building projects through all Upper and Lower Egypt. The economy raised and Egypt reached it's peak.
She died at the age of 40 and was buried in the Valley of the Kings. Her father's tomb was moved to hers so they could rest together in the afterlife.
Her stepson, Thutmose III, was responsible of erasing her existence. He commanded to delete all evidence of her during his reign, and that's why Hatshepsut's excuse was discovered much later than the other pharaohs.
