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The Rise of Cleopatra

The Ancients

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The Birth of the God in Egypt

She also ties in divine birth the ideas of divine birth and mothers having children so by associating herself with Isis as she does more clearly than anywhere else at our mat in the temple release there. She is showing herself to be the mother of the true rightful heir to the throne um Horace embodied in this case by Caesarian. It was following in a long tradition of showing how the current ruler was legitimate a child of the gods and the right person to be ruling Egypt by 42.

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