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  • In the New Empire, the scenes of the theogamy sculpted on the walls of the temples Deir el Bahari, Luxor, etc. show the union of the queen and the god Amon who comes to visit her by borrowing the appearance of her husband, then the birth of the new king born of this mystical marriage.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Jan 2008

  • In the New Empire, the scenes of the theogamy sculpted on the walls of the temples Deir el Bahari, Luxor, etc. show the union of the queen and the god Amon who comes to visit her by borrowing the appearance of her husband, then the birth of the new king born of this mystical marriage.

    Exhibit of Egyptian Queens Jan 2008

  • May, the Whitsuntide Bridegroom and Bride in modern Europe? and may not their union have been yearly celebrated in a _theogamy_ or divine marriage?

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • Whitsuntide Bridegroom and Bride in modern Europe? and may not their union have been yearly celebrated in a theogamy or divine marriage?

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • May not he and she, as King and Queen of the Wood, have been serious counterparts of the merry mummers who play the King and Queen of May, the Whitsuntide Bridegroom and Bride in modern Europe? and may not their union have been yearly celebrated in a theogamy or divine marriage?

    Chapter 12. The Sacred Marriage. § 1. Diana as a Goddess of Fertility 1922

  • May not he and she, as King and Queen of the Wood, have been serious counterparts of the merry mummers who play the King and Queen of May, the Whitsuntide Bridegroom and Bride in modern Europe? and may not their union have been yearly celebrated in a theogamy or divine marriage?

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

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