Nefertiti (the name is an Egyptian phrase meaning "the beautiful one who has come")
Queen Nefertiti is perhaps better known than her husband, the heretic king Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV). It is said that even in the ancient world, her beauty was famous. She seems to have taken a hitherto unprecedented level of importance in the Amarna period of Egypt's 18th Dynasty.
Nefertiti may or may not have been of royal blood. She was probably a daughter of the army officer, and later pharaoh, Ay. Ay sometimes referred to himself as "the God's father", suggest that he may have been Akhenaten's father-in-law, though there are no references for this claim.
Nefertiti has six daughters, with another royal wife called Kiya that the king sired his successors, Smenkhkareand Tutankhamun. Nefertiti also shared her husband with two other royal wives named Mekytaten and Ankhesenpaaten, and later with her probable daughter, Merytaten.
Each of the royal women had their own sanctuary, which was called a sunshade temple. Emphasizing the importance of female royalty in the daily renewal of creation affected by the god Aten(the sun) Aten was the supreme deity, and the worship of other supreme deities, such as Atum and Ra. In the royal religion, the King and Queen were viewed as "a primeval first pair
I actually had the opportunity to read Nefertiti's story. It was very enlightening and inspiring.
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