kbs2244 wrote:So a “pharaoh” was a ruler of both upper and lower Egypt?
Or was a pharaoh a king who was also a living god, while the non-pharaohs were 'just' kings, and thus mere mortals?
If so, what happened that made the people consider Menes/Manetho a pharaoh, a living god, while his predecessors apparently were
not considered to be living gods?
Of course it could simply be spin, a.k.a. 'public relations': that Menes'/Manetho's Goebbels of the day thought it was a good idea to 'paint' the king as a living god, in order to get unquestioned (=absolute) obedience from the people. In that case we should translate pharaoh as 'dictator', of course. And, as we know, whatever the authorities say goes (witness 9/11, Watergate, Iran-contra-gate, JFK's assassination, Bobby Kennedy's assassination, MLK's assassination, Pearl Harbor, the Reichstag fire, the Gleiwitz incident, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, etc., etc., etc.... And that is only the last century! History is riddled with manufactured cases belli).
Demonstration:
This man 'caught' a so-called 'face shot'. Straight from the "Professional Assassins Handbook"! The gunman set it up as he was taught: aiming to get the ideal firing angle from a professional sniper's point of view. That's when the mark comes straight at you, and your line of fire is as horizontal as the terrain allows. The 'mark' was clearly shot from one o'clock, low. Confirmed by the Zapruder footage. Not from six o'clock, high, as the 'authorities' maintain – a.k.a. LIE – to this day.
This was of course JFK.
A demonstration that the 'authorities'
will lie to the public when it, apparently, suits them.
Also, I don't mean to imply that only this only happens in the US. Today. It happens everywhere, all the time, throughout the history of civilisation. Power intrigues! It's classical drama, really.
But the US
do provide some of the best examples in recent history, of course.
