end of the second millennium BC, Egypt was embroiled in a long war with the Hittite Empire is not complete until the year 1265 BC, Ramses II's marriage with the daughter of the Hittite emperor, king of Hatti.
Ramses, which is also known as remittances, was captivated by the beauty of his new wife, which gave the Egyptian name Nefrure and the title of "Great Royal Wife." Soon after his arrival, however, Ramses was celebrating a festival in Thebes in honor of the god Amun when I get a messenger of the king of Hatti on the bad news that the younger sister of Nefrure, Bentresh, was seriously ill and doctors Hittites were unable to cure. Immediately, the king summoned his top doctors and magicians, and asked their opinion about Bentresh disease. A view that did not come to any diagnosis, finally opted to send his own physician.
Three years later, the doctor returned to Egypt. The princess said were possessed by some evil spirits and the only way to cure it was to lay hold upon the intercession of a god. Ramses then consulted the priests of the shrine of Khonsu in Thebes and asked for help. The priests passed on the plea of \u200b\u200bPharaoh to Khonsu, whose statue nodded in acquiescence, which means that it acceded to heal the Moon Princess, had to stay in the city, so the priests sought help from the another manifestation of God "Jonsu the exorcist of demons."
Protected by a series of magical amulets provided by his alter ego, Khonsu, the exorcist of demons, he went with his entourage to the Hittite capital. Seventeen months after finally arrived at their destination, where the princess Bentresh cured. His father, the Hittite emperor, was so impressed with the healing power of the statue refused to let her return to Egypt and ordered to build a shrine in its own imperatives with the aim of dudarla there. For three years and nine months, the statue remained in Hittite lands, until the Prince of Hatti had a prophetic dream in which the statue of Khonsu left their sanctuary in the form of a golden hawk pounced on before disappearing in the sky heading to Egypt.
The prince knew then that the statue had to return to their country, then back to Thebes, accompanied by a substantial financial compensation. Once in Thebes, the statue presented to the statue of Khonsu other loot Hittite, with all his treasures, in appreciation of the priests of their own sanctuary in Hatti.
BLUME EDITORIAL: BY C. SCOTT LITTLETON
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