In ancient times, when genetic transmission was still unknown, it was customary for close relatives to marry. Later, the royal family liked this game, believing that pure bloodline could consolidate their own prosperity.
As a result, sibling marriage has become a common phenomenon, and even father-daughter marriage, and mother-son marriage, have appeared in history. For example, the Japanese royal family has had the phenomenon of marriage between mother and son.
But this kind of thing, which modern people consider unthinkable, is not surprising at all in ancient Egypt, because they also had the reality of father-daughter marriage.
In fact, although ancient Egypt has a long history and culture, marriage between close relatives has always been their tradition. Didn't anyone Ramses II marry his sister or even his daughter?
Indeed, as an indelible figure in human history, Ramses lived to be more than 90 years old and had 8 empresses in his life, the eldest daughter born to the first of which became the father's new empress after her mother's death.
According to some sources, Ramses II made her empress only after her daughter's death, and some say that her daughter became more and more like her mother when she grew up, so she was made empress.
But in any case, it seems not at all strange that the ancient Egyptian father and daughter were married, there is no so-called fearful words, and there is no public opinion to crush the regime.
And what is the reason for this? It seems that in addition to pure blood, there is also a legendary misunderstanding: Pharaoh's father mistakenly spoiled his daughter and eventually had to take her as his wife.
This man was one of the early pharaohs of ancient Egypt: Akaria, who is said to have pioneered the father-daughter marriage in ancient Egypt, but he did so only because of an accident.
According to historical records, Akaria was a murderous, aggressive, and at the same time particularly promiscuous pharaoh whose life was almost permeated by war and wife-taking: on the way to war, you must know that on the way to war, you are either on the way to scavenge for beautiful women.
It is precisely because of this that there are many members of the harem in Acallia, and there are too many natural children to count. Anyway, Ramses II had more than 100 children, and presumably Acaria would have more.
How lecherous is Acallia? The folk beauties are all his, and as long as he fancy, they must unconditionally commit themselves to him. Even if that person is the wife or child of his brother, this is no exception.
One year, Akaria led his own army and fought for several years outside, and in the process, his children gradually grew up. Among them is a princess named Atana, who looks like a fairy, so that people can't forget it at a glance.
Although Acaria herself did not know that her daughter had already become a beautiful woman, other tribes had heard about it. At that time, a tribal leader was hungry for the beauty of Atana and could not wait for Akalia to return and marry, so he was worried that the night would grow and dream more.
As a result, the leader was hot-headed and sent someone to quietly kidnap Atana. Coincidentally, at this time, Akalia happened to be triumphant.
At that time, winning a battle meant expanding and being a hero. As soon as Acaria heard that someone had kidnapped her daughter, she went to find someone to duel without saying a word.
The leader looked at the soldiers' pressure, and he was fooled, and quickly compromised: I will return my daughter to you. It's just that the leader is also treacherous enough, and what he can't get will destroy her.
While appeasing Akaria, the chief flattered him with beautiful women and promised that he would definitely return his daughter to you. In fact, the beauty he gave to Akalia was none other than Attana.
The night was high and dark, the lights were ambiguous, and Acaria did not recognize his daughter at all, and he was content to spoil the beautiful woman sent by the chief.
It was not until the next morning, when Atana's handmaid was sent back, that she discovered that her princess had already been favored by the pharaoh. In this regard, Akaria was so angry that she mistreated the leader of the other party while not wanting to let her daughter go.
In the end, Atana was sent to the harem by Akalia and has since become her favorite concubine. Although the whole country knew about this, no one dared to say that Acallia was too cruel.
It is said that ancient Egyptian culture has a long history, but I think there is still a gap between the moral and cultural level of our country? How else did he not know the word ethics?
It's just that it is not recorded whether Akaria gave birth to a child after marrying Atana, but judging from the subsequent father-daughter marriage situation, they don't care whether they have children or not, or even whether they will give birth to deformed children.
No matter how lucky you are, the probability of fathers and daughters, brothers and sisters getting married, and giving birth to deformed children is completely impossible to avoid. But ancient Egyptians have always had such traditions, and they had their own way of dealing with deformed babies born with deformity.
It can be seen from the records that whenever Pharaoh is born with a deformed child, it will not become an abandoned pawn, but on the contrary, it must become a "god" loved by all peoples.
Pharaohs would announce that their deformed children were the embodiment of God, the children of God, and the reason why they were solemn to the royal family was God's will, so that the people believed in and crowded their power more.
This is called religious belief, and from the beginning, it is nothing more than "flickering" from the highest flickering member. Look at the gods of ancient Egypt, the goddess Nut and the male god Geb are brothers and sisters themselves, but they not only married, but also had multiple children together.
The gods can marry close relatives, and naturally so can the royal family. Ancient Egypt was almost in such propaganda that it kept its rivers and mountains within the purest bloodline.
Of course, except that it was a misunderstanding that Akaria and Atana were together, the royal marriage that followed was put on a political big hat, and the blood was a divine indication that who had the right to be a leader and who was doomed to be oppressed, everything was related to the blood shed on his body.
In addition, when people's power and consciousness become more and more enlightened, they must continue to fool the people, and if they can't fool, they have to find ways to centralize power.
Another advantage of marrying close relatives is that they can always hold power in the hands of their own family. What does it mean that fertile water does not flow into the fields of outsiders? This is probably the essence of the essence.
It's just that such a self-deceptive day, it won't take long, the people will not overthrow you, and God will find you to settle. After all, in addition to the high rate of deformities, the marriage of close relatives is a big problem in terms of life expectancy and physical fitness, and various medical problems such as early death, short life, personality disorders, and developmental blockade will emerge one after another.
However, to this day, the royal families of some countries in the Middle East still like close marriages, among which cousin unions are very common. What is strange is that the probability of deformity in the descendants of the Middle Eastern royal family is almost non-existent, and all of them are high-looking and highly intelligent.
Why is that? I am afraid that in addition to advanced scientific and technological means, it is necessary to cooperate with an absolute economic foundation. Anyway, this operation is obviously much better than the current situation in Japan, which is almost extinct.