Introduction
This is Amun specifically in his New Kingdom theological role as divine father of the reigning pharaoh: taking the exact form of the queen's husband to visit her and conceive the next legitimate ruler, a narrative recorded in full temple relief cycles for two different pharaohs.
Family
- Children: Hatshepsut, Amenhotep III
A Legitimizing Script, Used Twice
This divine-birth narrative survives in detailed relief form twice: at Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari, and, adapted almost scene-for-scene, at Luxor Temple for Amenhotep III. Both are treated here as the same theological role and narrative pattern rather than duplicated as separate deities, since the underlying claim in each case is identical — that Amun, not the queen's mortal husband, is the child's true father, directly legitimizing the ruler's claim to the throne through unimpeachable divine descent.
This article records a specific literary or theological role — a king-list entry, a court tale, or a royal legitimation narrative — rather than the deity's or ruler's fuller religious identity, which (where applicable) is covered in the separate Egyptian Pantheon project.