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Ethics and morality as a value, on top of the marriage of children, our country has been taboo since ancient times, that is, close relatives can not be happy to tie the knot, and under the test of modern scientific level, it is also concluded that close relatives are not allowed to marry and have children within three generations, because the children born will most likely die or intellectual and physiological restrictions.
Although the marriage of close relatives is considered by our country to be unethical and moral, and it is unacceptable to the world, in the eyes of the ancient Egyptians, such an act is particularly different from the ideas and concepts of other countries.
The pharaohs of ancient Egypt even married their own daughters and gave birth to heirs, so why did such things happen in ancient Egypt from time to time, and did not decide to violate ethics and morality?
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There were once four ancient civilizations in the world, under the migration of history, the four ancient civilizations only left a long history of China, has always existed in the world, and China has also developed many ideological concepts under the impetus of the times.
Among them, there are regulations on the prohibition of intermarriage between close relatives, and the ancients believed that such behavior was very shameful and contrary to heavenly reason, and for the imperial power, it may be for the purity of the royal bloodline, sisters and brothers with relatives will be selected for marriage.
However, it should be noted that the person who marries is not a close relative, but chooses among different princes, so that not only does not violate ethics and morality, but also ensures the orthodox bloodline of the royal family.
Ancient Egypt, which is also the ancient country of the four major civilizations, is contrary to our country for such shameless behavior, and our country is very resistant to such behavior, and even unacceptable, while in ancient Egypt, it is very common for close relatives to marry.
Because in the literature on ancient Egypt, we can understand that the marriage of close relatives in ancient Egypt seems to be a tradition, but also a culture, and even the pharaonic level figures of ancient Egypt were also married by close relatives.
The pharaohs of ancient Egypt had always been to marry their own daughters as concubines, and even gave birth to the next generation, and as to why such a thing happened, it was the high status of pharaohs in people's hearts that made what pharaohs do to exist correctly.
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And since Pharaoh was the object of worship of the ancient Egyptian people, then since Pharaoh was able to marry his own daughter and even give birth to heirs, then such an act was naturally sought after by the people, and they rushed to emulate it, believing that only in this way was the most orthodox existence.
Pharaoh also represented a noble god in ancient Egypt, and since God's guidance was such, the ancient Egyptian people firmly believed that such an act was correct.
Under the influence of such thought for a long time, people regard such behavior as a very common thing, and there is no emergence of ethical and moral ideas, and even more in such a general environment, no one has questioned or vetoed it.
Of course, some people may have resisted, but at the same time as opposing, they may have violated the "god" pursued by the people, so that the voice of opposition was suppressed and immediately killed, and no one dared to resist, and could only be gradually assimilated in the days of year after year.
Even if the heirs born of the marriage of close relatives have genetic defects, the ancient Egyptian people still believe that this is the "blessing" brought by God, or the "dissatisfaction" with themselves, and they do not know that under the marriage of such close relatives, the child only lacks normal genes, resulting in the child's easy death, or the birth of a deformed.
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But this is only a considerable reason, and the root cause is the problem of the purity of the bloodline, the status of the pharaoh at that time was comparable to that of the gods, and the gods were in the supreme position in the hearts of the people, naturally the bloodline was noble, not mortals could touch.
Therefore, the blood of the pharaoh is naturally as noble as the gods, in order to ensure the purity of the bloodline, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt chose to marry among their close relatives and cultivate the next generation of heirs.
But to marry his daughter like Pharaoh, there is a big premise, that is, only after the pharaoh's wife dies, can he choose a new relative to marry to cultivate his own bloodline inheritance, so that the world will not think that the pharaoh is absurd, and this way is also the most easily accepted by the people of ancient Egypt.
Another advantage of marrying a close relative is to prevent the power from being divided, because at that time, if you want to marry a foreign woman, you naturally have to share the power with your other half, which represents the weakening of power and will be spurned by the world.
Therefore, under comprehensive consideration, while consolidating power, it is also necessary to maintain social support, and it is most secure to marry a close relative naturally!
epilogue:
Even if our country is explicitly forbidden for close relatives to marry and have children, in ancient Egypt such behavior is a fine traditional culture, which has been warmly sought after, and even the top level of ancient Egypt is driving the direction of social thought, and the final suffering is those children who have died and children who have been abandoned!
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Ancient Egypt