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"She-King of Egypt"

                   Judith Deborah Ellis

The grand regal symmetrical mortuary temple which housed
the body of the great female pharaoh Hatshepsut, who ruled
Egypt for 21 years from 1479 to 1458 B.C., sits amid the
desert surrounded by ancient rock at Deir el Bahri. Having
been of royal blood but a woman her stepson, Thutmose III,
was next in line for ascension to the throne. Hatshepsut and
Thutmose II had one daughter but no sons.

Upon the death of her brother and husband, Thutmose II his
stepson, was elevated to the throne. It is asserted that she
was, in fact, the chief heir of her father's throne, not merely
the royal queen of her brother. Chip Brown, in an article for
the National Geographic, "The King Herself," writes,
"Remember, Hatshepsut was a true blue blood, related to
pharaoh Ahmose, while her husband-brother was the
offspring of an adopted king. The Egyptians believed in the
divinity of the pharaoh; only Hatshepsut, not her stepson,
had a biological line to divine royalty."

   The Temple and Tomb of Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut went along with the male ascension to the
throne initially. As Thutmose III was too young to govern,
Hatshepsut, in the tradition of the time, assumed the duties
of pharaoh on behalf of her stepson. But after two years it
was evident that she was performing the duties of the
pharaoh on her own accord. As her stepson grew, he
became co-regent with Hatshepsut. But it was obvious who
was ruling. She was the pharoah king of Egypt. This would
be a different kind of reign. After all, she was of royal
lineage. Thutmose III was her husband's son with another
and Thutmose II himself, as noted earlier, was the offspring
of adoption.

      The Mummified body of Hatsheput

Hatsheput's reign is considered one of the most remarkable
Egyptian dynasties, but she is perhaps readily known as the
woman "who had the audacity to portray herself as a man."
According to Brown, she "was concerned about how others
would view her many years later. Inscribed on one of the
obelisks at Karnak are these words: "Now my heart turns
this way and that, as I think what the people will say. Those
who see my monuments in years to come and who shall
speak of what I have done."

In an effort to be remembered Brown writes that she "raised
and renovated temples and shrines from the Sinai to Nubia.
The four granite obelisks she erected at the vast temple of
the great god Amun at
Karnak were among the
most magnificent ever
constructed. She
commissioned hundreds
of statues of her self and
left accounts in stone of
her lineage, her titles, her
history, both real and
concocted even her thoughts and hopes, which at times she
confided with uncommon candor."

So, what was this "She-King of Egypt like?" Once thought of
as "ruthless," she is emerging differently today. Catharine
Roehig, a curator of Egyptian art at Metropolitan Museum of
Art, writes, "Nobody can know what she was like. She ruled
for 20 years because she was capable of making things
work. I believe she was very canny and that she knew how
to play one person off against the next-without murdering
them or getting murdered herself."

After Hatshepsut's death Thutmose III achieved a great
name for himself as a warrior pharaoh. "Her stepson," writes
Brown, "went on to secure his destiny as one of the great
pharaohs in Egyptian history. Thutmose II was a a
monument maker like his stepmother but also a warrior
without peer, the so-called Napoleon of ancient Egypt...In
the latter part of his life, when other men might be content
to reminisce about bygone adventures, Thutmose III appears
to have taken up another pastime. He decided to
methodically wipe his stepmother, the king, out of history."

While Hatshepsut's stepson sought to erase all memories of
his stepmother, who by all indications ruled pretty much as
a sovereign pharaoh, though he performed duties as
alongside her as the co-regent, the bend of her neck, the
height of her regal cheeks, the enormity of her eye sockets,
the elegance of her profile, the symmetry of her face, the
strength of her bone structure, the round perfection of her
head, the pride in her chin after these many years all
bespeak a woman of strength, renown and grace.

Yes, Thumose III had "almost all the images of her as king
were systematically chisled off temples, monuments, and
obelisks."

Hatshepsut knew that this would happen so she went
through great pains of securing herself in history. In her
temple she wanted it known that she is of royal blood and
who her father is. A tale is written where her father the royal
king Thutmose I tells "Khnum, the ram-headed god of
creation who models the clay of mankind on his potter's will:
"'Go, to fashion her better than all gods; shape for me, this
my daughter, whom I have begotten.'"

Hatshepsut "had herself depicted solely as a male king, in
the pharoah's headdress, the pharaoh's shendyt kilt, and
the pharoah's false beard-without male traits." After the two
year's that she acted as the king, she performed all of the
duties as king herself.

It must also be noted that during her reign as king there was
peace and prosperity in Egypt and its neighbors. When her
stepson. Thutmose II ascended the throne, war began. As
noted in the post he was like the Napoleon of ancient times.
In one post someone wrote that it is a fallacy that women
are no less war-like than men. This I highly doubt by nature
or nurture.

    Judith Deborah Ellis

Being a keen observer of everything and an eternal free spirit, life
forever teaches me of the importance of being in the world for
others, out of which comes the significance of being the brand,
personally and professionally. From opera to jazz, to
philosophical musings, to teaching at a community college, to
consulting for city governments, to teaching English and music to
indigenous children abroad, to owning an urban redevelopment
environmental firm, to facilitating corporate training materials for
Fortune 500, to missionary work in an underdeveloped country, to
real estate investments, I am the brand. Whatever we do and
wherever we go, we are all being brands.

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Having graduated from the University of Michigan in music
(Bachelor’s and Master’s) and attended Wayne State University
in English with concentrations in philosophy and religion (PhD),
Judith began her business career by teaching English on the
college level and facilitating training materials for Ford Motor
Company. She combined her artistic knowledge and her
corporate facilitation and design experience with technology to
assist in the production of innovative on-line training materials for
colleges and corporations.

Judith brings a wealth of knowledge and experiences to her work.
Among these, she was a Top Producer of residential and
commercial real estate for Coldwell Banker, she taught Business
Communication and English at Oakland Community College,
edited books and magazine publications, developed marketing
and advertising strategies for three high-gloss magazines in three
markets for Targeted Media Communications, served as an
Allocation Committee Member for the United Way with a budget
in the hundreds of millions, and served as the Cultural Liaison for
the City of Detroit.

Her passion is entrepreneurship, having developed several
businesses and assisted other companies in business
development. She is a principle of JDE Consulting, LLC, a firm
that assist professional development firms in business
development and marketing and branding services. Judith is
skilled in producing business plans, proposals, work statements,
product development, operating budgets, financial terms,
technical writing, market research and strategies, and new
operating practices to improve quality, increase productivity and
reduce costs.

She assisted in the production of the arts and entertainment
component of the Detroit 300, a yearlong tri-centennial birthday
celebration. Various artists included Steve Wonder, Aretha
Franklin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Mary J. Blige. Judith was
a board member of the Detroit 300 Arts and Entertainment
Committee.

Judith has traveled the world extensively and is proficient in three
languages. She has been a professional singer since her youth as
a child prodigy, having been discovered by renowned opera
founders and directors David and Karen DiChiera of the Michigan
Opera Theater, Opera Pacific in California and Dayton Opera in
Ohio. Judith began her performance career as an opera singer
and later performed as a jazz artist and actor in theater
productions and films.

She was a reader and editor of published manuscripts including
Women and the Leadership Q by acclaimed business consultant
Shoya Zichy, Embracing Destiny’s Crossroads by Dr. Lucile
Richardson, Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the
Quarrel That Ended It, by renowned Sartrean scholar Dr. Ronald
Aronson, and Woman Act Now! by life coach Anna McCoy.

Judith was a lead member of the team that brought the national
premier of Rocky Balboa to Michigan in 2006 where she headed
sales and marketing. Including her membership as a board
member of the United Way Allocations Committee, she has
served as a board member of the Detroit Women’s Forum, one of
the oldest women business committees in Michigan. Judith is a
licensed chaplain whose family has a great legacy in ministry and
business. Having been taught to serve first, all of her eleven
siblings were trained in ministry and are professionals and
entrepreneurs.

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Acknowledgement:

It is with my fondest of appreciation that I thank
Judith Deborah Ellis for granting me permission
to present her article on the She-King of Egypt,
which appeared in the National Geographic, and
now appears in the "Visions of Egypt" page and
the Judith Ellis Page - 1 of the German-American
World Historical Society.   Judith Deborah Ellis is
a very talented writer, and she is capable of
writing about any subject, and is gifted with a
keen sense of making any subject that she writes
about, putting the reader into her subject matter,
as though they were also part of what she wrote
about. Beginning with her very excellent article,
German-American World Historical Society plans
to reprint with her permssion, other articles by
Judith Deborah Ellis.

Thank you Judith...

John Raymond Lawrora
dba Johannes Rammund De Balliel-Lawrora