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Tohwait's TreeNew - 19 December 2009
Generations 27 - 41 Tohwait's (Nfry-ta-Tjenen's) Tree Figure 1. Lines of Descent from Amenemhet I and/or Terah (Abraham’s father)
Generation No. 27 Senusret I (Kheperkara) (Sestoris) (1962-1926 BC) [27] Tohwait (=Amenemhet I) [26] Nefert (=Senusret of Elephantine) [25] Missing Generations [15-24] Ham (=Neelata-mek) [14] Tubal Cain (=Nin-banda) [13] Lamech (=Zillah) [12] Methusael (=Edna?) [11] Mehujael (=?) [10] Irad (=Baraka?) [9] Enoch (=Edna?) [8] Cain (=Luluwa) [7] Enki and Eve [6] Enki and Nin-khursag [5] Anu and Antu (OR Ki) [4] Anshar and Kishar [3] Lahmu and Lahamu [2] Tiamat / Absu [1]
Senusret I was the second pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1971 (or 1962) BC to 1926 BC, and was one of the most powerful kings of his Dynasty. He was the son of Amenemhet I and his wife Nefertitanen. His own wife and sister was Neferu. Neferu was also the mother of the successor Amenemhet II. Senusret I was known by his prenomen, Kheperkare, which means "the Ka of Re is created." Senusret I continued his father's aggressive expansionist policies against Nubia by initiating two expeditions in his 10th and 18th Years and established Egypt's formal southern border at the fortress of Buhen near the second cataract where he placed a garrison and a victory stele. He also organized an expedition to a Western Desert oasis in the Libyan desert, as well as establishing diplomatic relations with several rulers of towns in Syria and Canaan. He tried to centralize the country's political structure by supporting nomarchs who were loyal to him. His pyramid was constructed at el-Lisht. Senusret I is mentioned in the Story of Sinuhe where he is reported to have rushed back to the royal palace in Memphis from a military campaign in Asia after hearing about the assassination of his father, Amenemhet I. Senusret was crowned co-regent with his father, Amenemhet I, in his father's 20th regnal year. Towards the end of his own life, he appointed his son Amenemhet II as his co-regent. The stele of Wepwawet? is dated to the 44th year of Senusret and to the 2nd year of Amenemhet, thus he would have appointed him some time in his 43rd year. Senusret is thought to have died during his 46th year on the throne since the Turin Canon ascribes him a reign of 45 Years.
Generation No. 28 Amenemhet II [28] Senusret I (=Nefru) [27] Tohwait (=Amenemhet I) [26] Nefert (=Senusret of Elephantine) [25] Missing Generations [15-24] Ham (=Neelata-mek) [14] Tubal Cain (=Nin-banda) [13] Lamech (=Zillah) [12] Methusael (=Edna?) [11] Mehujael (=?) [10] Irad (=Baraka?) [9] Enoch (=Edna?) [8] Cain (=Luluwa) [7] Enki and Eve [6] Enki and Nin-khursag [5] Anu and Antu (OR Ki) [4] Anshar and Kishar [3] Lahmu and Lahamu [2] Tiamat and Absu [1]
Nubkhaure Amenemhet II was the third pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He ruled Egypt for 35 years from 1929 BC to 1895 BC and was the son of Senusret I through the latter's chief wife, Queen Nefru. His queen is not known for certain; although a certain 'king's wife' named Senet (aka Keminebu) has been proposed. His prenomen or throne name, Nubkaure, means "Golden are the Souls of Re.” Amenemhet II established a co-regency with his son Senusret II in his 33rd Regnal Year in order to secure the continuity of the royal succession. His pyramid was constructed at Dahshur and is only little researched. [Dahshur, BTW, is actually incredibly important as an archaeological site, and includes some phenomenal, undamaged friezes in a narrow basement chamber.] Next to the pyramid were found the tombs of several royal women; in some cases they were found undisturbed and still contained golden jewelry. Senusret II and Ameny were the viziers at the beginning of the reign. The overseer of the gateway Khentykhetywer is attested on a stelae, where he reports on an expedition to Punt.
Amenemhet II and his son, Senusret II, shared a brief co-regency, which was the last certain one of the Middle Kingdom. The stela of Hapu at Aswan dates to the third year of Senusret II and to the 35th year of Amenemhet, meaning that Senusret was crowned in his father's 33rd regnal year. The name of the younger king is placed ahead of the senior king, which may possibly indicate Senusret was the dominant personality in the co-regency even before his father died, although such speculation is based on far too little evidence for a fair evaluation one way or the other.
Generation No. 29 Senusret II [29] Amenemhet II (=Keminebu) [28] Senusret I (=Nefru) [27] Tohwait (=Amenemhet I) [26] Nefert (=Senusret of Elephantine) [25] Missing Generations [15-24] Ham (=Neelata-mek) [14] Tubal Cain (=Nin-banda) [13] Lamech (=Zillah) [12] Methusael (=Edna?) [11] Mehujael (=?) [10] Irad (=Baraka?) [9] Enoch (=Edna?) [8] Cain (=Luluwa) [7] Enki and Eve [6] Enki and Nin-khursag [5] Anu and Antu (OR Ki) [4] Anshar and Kishar [3] Lahmu and Lahamu [2] Tiamat and Absu [1]
Khakeperre Senusret II was the fourth pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1897 BC to 1878 BC. His pyramid was constructed at El-Lahun. Senusret II took a great deal of interest in the Faiyum oasis region [where the Labyrinth of Egypt is located] and began work on an extensive irrigation system from the Bahr Yusuf through to Lake Moeris by means of the construction of a dike at El-Lahun and the addition of a network of drainage canals. The purpose of his project was to increase the amount of cultivable land here. The importance of this project is emphasized by Senusret II's decision to move the royal necropolis from Dahshur to El-Lahun where he built his pyramid. This location would remain the political capital of the 12th and 13th Dynasties of Egypt. The king also established the first known worker's quarter in the nearby town of Senusrethotep (Kahun). Unlike his successor, Senusret II maintained good relations with the various local and influential nomarchs or provincial governors of Egypt who were almost as wealthy as the pharaoh himself. On the other hand, Senusret II may not have shared a co-regency with his son, Senusret III, unlike most other Middle Kingdom rulers. In 1889 CE, the English Egyptologist Flinders Petrie found "a marvelous gold and inlaid royal uraeus" that must have originally formed part of Senusret II's looted burial equipment in a flooded chamber of the king's pyramid tomb. The tomb of Princess Sit-Hathor-Iunet, a daughter of Senusret II, was also discovered by Egyptologists in a separate burial. Petrie also found and remarked on the Labyrinth of Egypt... albeit not always accurately.
Generation No. 30 Senusret III [30] Senusret II (=Nofret) [29] Amenemhet II (=Keminebu) [28] Senusret I (=Nefru) [27] Tohwait (=Amenemhet I) [26] Nefert (=Senusret of Elephantine) [25] Missing Generations [15-24] Ham (=Neelata-mek) [14] Tubal Cain (=Nin-banda) [13] Lamech (=Zillah) [12] Methusael (=Edna?) [11] Mehujael (=?) [10] Irad (=Baraka?) [9] Enoch (=Edna?) [8] Cain (=Luluwa) [7] Enki and Eve [6] Enki and Nin-khursag [5] Anu and Antu (OR Ki) [4] Anshar and Kishar [3] Lahmu and Lahamu [2] Tiamat and Absu [1]
Khakhaure Senusret III (also written as Senwosret III or Sesostris III) was a pharaoh of Egypt. He ruled from 1878 BC to 1839 BC, and was the fifth monarch of the Twelfth Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. He was a great pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty and is considered to be perhaps the most powerful Egyptian ruler of this time. Consequently, he is regarded as one of the sources for the legend about Sesostris. Senusret III cleared a navigable canal through the first cataract and relentlessly pushed his kingdom's expansion deep into Nubia where he erected massive river forts including Buhen, Semna and Toshka at Uronarti. He carried out at least four major campaigns deep into Nubia in his Year 8, 10, 16 and 19 respectively. His Year 8 stela at Semna documents his victories against the Nubians through which he thought having made safe the southern frontier, preventing further incursions into Egypt. Another great stela from Semna dated to the third month of Year 16 of his reign mentions his military activities against both Nubia and Canaan. In it, he admonished his future successors to maintain the new border which he had created:
His final campaign in Year 19 was less successful because the king's forces were trapped by a low Nile current and had to retreat and abandon their campaign to avoid being trapped in hostile Nubian territory. Such was his forceful nature and immense influence that Senusret III was worshipped as a god in Semna by later generations. His pyramid was constructed at Dahshur. He may have initiated a co-regency with his son in the 20th year of his reign.
Generation No. 31 Amenemhet III (Nymaatre) [31] Senusret III (=Mereret) [30] Senusret II (=Nofret) [29] Amenemhet II (=Keminebu) [28] Senusret I (=Nefru) [27] Tohwait (=Amenemhet I) [26] Nefert (=Senusret of Elephantine) [25] Missing Generations [15-24] Ham (=Neelata-mek) [14] Tubal Cain (=Nin-banda) [13] Lamech (=Zillah) [12] Methusael (=Edna?) [11] Mehujael (=?) [10] Irad (=Baraka?) [9] Enoch (=Edna?) [8] Cain (=Luluwa) [7] Enki and Eve [6] Enki and Nin-khursag [5] Anu and Antu (OR Ki) [4] Anshar and Kishar [3] Lahmu and Lahamu [2] Tiamat / Absu [1]
Amenemhet III (Amenemhet III), was a pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from c..1860 BC to c..1814 BC. He is regarded as the greatest monarch of the Middle Kingdom. He may have had a long co-regency (of 20 years) with his father, Senusret III. Towards the end of his own reign he instituted a co-regency with his successor Amenemhet IV. His daughter, Sobeknefru, later succeeded Amenemhet IV, as the last ruler of the 12th Dynasty. Amenemhet III's throne name, Nimaatre, means "Belonging to the Justice of Re." He built a first pyramid at Dahshur (the so-called "Black Pyramid") but there were building problems and this was abandoned. Around Year 15 of his reign the king decided to build a new pyramid at Hawara [near the Faiyum Oasis, Lake Moeris and immediately adjacent to the site of the Labyrinth of Egypt]. His [so-called] mortuary temple at Hawara, is accompanied by a pyramid and was known to Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus as the "Labyrinth." Strabo praised it as a wonder of the world. The king's pyramid at Hawara contained some of the most complex security features of any found in Egypt and is perhaps the only one to come close to the sort of tricks Hollywood associates with such structures. Nevertheless, the king's burial was robbed in antiquity. His daughter, Neferuptah, was buried in a separate pyramid (discovered in 1956) two kilometers southwest of the king's. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is thought to have been originally composed during Amenemhet's time.
Generation No. 32 1. Amenemhet IV (Maakherure) [32] Amenemhet III (=Aat) [31] Senusret III (=Mereret) [30] Senusret II (=Nofret) [29] Amenemhet II (=Keminebu) [28] Senusret I (=Nefru) [27] Tohwait (=Amenemhet I) [26] Nefert (=Senusret of Elephantine) [25] Missing Generations [15-24] Ham (=Neelata-mek) [14] Tubal Cain (=Nin-banda) [13] Lamech (=Zillah) [12] Methusael (=Edna?) [11] Mehujael (=?) [10] Irad (=Baraka?) [9] Enoch (=Edna?) [8] Cain (=Luluwa) [7] Enki and Eve [6] Enki and Nin-khursag [5] Anu and Antu (OR Ki) [4] Anshar and Kishar [3] Lahmu and Lahamu [2] Tiamat and Absu [1]
Amenemhet IV (Sobehneferu, Amenemhet IV) was Pharaoh of Egypt, likely ruling between 1815 BC and 1806 BC. He served first as the junior co-regent of Amenemhet III and completed the latter's temple at Medinet Maadi, which is "the only intact temple still existing from the Middle Kingdom". The temple's foundations, administrative buildings, granaries and residences were recently uncovered by an Egyptian archaeological expedition in early 2006. Amenemhet IV likely also built a temple in the northeastern Fayum at Qasr el-Sagha. He served the first year of his reign as the junior co-regent to his powerful predecessor, Amenemhet III. His short reign was relatively peaceful and uneventful; several dated expeditions were recorded at the Serabit el-Khadim mines in the Sinai. It was after his death that the gradual decline of the Middle Kingdom is thought to have begun. Amenemhet died without a male heir, and was succeeded by his wife, half-sister (or perhaps his aunt) Sobeknefru, who became the first woman in about 1500 years to rule Egypt.
2. Queen Sobeknefru [32] Amenemhet III (=Igrath) [31] Senusret III (=Mereret) [30] Senusret II (=Nofret) [29] Amenemhet II (=Keminebu) [28] Senusret I (=Nefru) [27] Tohwait (=Amenemhet I) [26] Nefert (=Senusret of Elephantine) [25] Missing Generations [15-24] Ham (=Neelata-mek) [14] Tubal Cain (=Nin-banda) [13] Lamech (=Zillah) [12] Methusael (=Edna?) [11] Mehujael (=?) [10] Irad (=Baraka?) [9] Enoch (=Edna?) [8] Cain (=Luluwa) [7] Enki and Eve [6] Enki and Nin-khursag [5] Anu and Antu (OR Ki) [4] Anshar and Kishar [3] Lahmu and Lahamu [2] Tiamat and Absu [1] Also: Queen Sobeknefru [29] Igrath (=Amenemhet III) [28] Esau (=Mahalath of Egypt) [27] Isaac (=Rebecca) [26] Abraham (=Sarah) [25] Terah (=Yawnu; or Tohwait) [24] Nahor (=Iyoska) [23] Serug (=Melka) [22] Reu (=Ora of Ur-Nammu) [21] Peleg (=Lamna) [20] Eber (=Azura) [19] Shelah [18] Arphaxad [17] Shem (=Seduka-tel-bab) [16] Noah (=Na’amath) [15] Lamech (=Bilanos) [14] Methuselah (=Edna (Ezrael)) [13] Enoch (=Edna) [12] Jared (=Baraka) [11] Mahlalail (=Sina) [10] Cainan (=Mualet) [9] Enosh (=Neom) [8] Seth (=Kalimath of Enki/Lilith) [7] Eve and Adam, [6] Enki and Nin-khursag [5] Anu and Antu [4] Anshar and Kishar [3] Lahmu and Lahamu [2] Tiamat and Absu [1]
Queen Sobeknefru became Queen of Egypt from 1785-1782 BC. She was the last pharaoh of the 12th Dynasty -- i.e., there was no male heir from Queen Sobeknefru and Amenemhet IV. She was, however, a very influential Queen. According to Laurence Gardner (Genesis of the Grail Kings), Sobeknefru formally established the Dragon Court of Ankhfn-khonsu, establishing a firm base for the priestly pursuits associated with the scientific teachings of Thoth which had prevailed from the second dynasty of Nimrod’s grandson King Raneb. [page 169] Sobeknefru’s name meant “Beautiful of the god Sobek”. Sobek was the mighty crocodile -- the very spirit of the Messeh, whose great temple was erected at Kiman Faris by her father.
Muddled Generations No. 33 - 41 Muddled Generations [33 - 41] Amenemhet IV (=Sobeknefru, d. of Igrath) [32] Amenemhet III (=Aat) [31] Senusret III (=Mereret) [30] Senusret II (=Nofret) [29] Amenemhet II (=Keminebu) [28] Senusret I (=Nefru) [27] Tohwait (=Amenemhet I) [26] Nefert (=Senusret of Elephantine) [25] Missing Generations [15-24] Ham (=Neelata-mek) [14] Tubal Cain (=Nin-banda) [13] Lamech (=Zillah) [12] Methusael (=Edna?) [11] Mehujael (=?) [10] Irad (=Baraka?) [9] Enoch (=Edna?) [8] Cain (=Luluwa) [7] Enki and Eve [6] Enki and Nin-khursag [5] Anu and Antu (OR Ki) [4] Anshar and Kishar [3] Lahmu and Lahamu [2] Tiamat and Absu [1] The 13th through the 17th Dynasties of ancient Egypt -- which also constitute what is known as the “Second Intermediate Period” -- included 11 pharaohs in the 13th, 1 in the 14th, and 5 in the 17th. Concurrent with the Egyptian 17th dynasty were the 15th and 16th dynasties (the 15th and 16th ruling simultaneously). These were the Hyksos Delta Kings, who were descended from Walid, Prince of the Hikau-khoswet (and quite possibly Troy). The last of the Hyksos Delta Kings was deposed by Ahmose I (c. 1562 BC), who founded the 18th Dynasty. However, many of the so-called generations of the 13th through 17th dynasties were not generations per se, and instead were sometimes relatively brief periods of reigns. Furthermore, more than one member of a generation might have ruled consecutively (e.g. Queen Hatshepsut and her husband Tuthmosis II; Aye as probably a usurper of Tutankhaten’s reign... and so forth and so on). There was also a lot of abruptly shortened reigns in Egypt. Real power tends to attract vultures of all kinds. The genealogical problem in the bloodline descent is that the confusion generated by simultaneous and split Egyptian rule, combined with invasions by non-Egyptians (but who may nevertheless have still carried the royal blood of Ham and Cain). Accordingly, rather than add confusion and bewilderment to a plague of unwarranted genealogical assumptions, we will muddle along with the Muddled Generations (33-41).
As will soon be seen, the descendants of Seth have also had some gaps... what will be referred to as their “missing generations”. While it is true that some sources suggest a tradition of assigning 40 years per generation for the Jewish descent... it seems unlikely that as slaves or royalty, that they were going to have longer reigns than Egyptian royalty. Accordingly, we will utilize the extremely important marriage between Kiya-tasherit (of the 18th Dynasty) and Ram (aka Rama), the latter being from Seth’s line of descent... and following a very long dearth of record keeping (or preserving). We will also, somewhat arbitrarily, assume that the marriage made Kiya and Ram contemporaries... occasionally a good idea for happy marriages. Thus if Kiya is assigned Generation No. 51, then Ram is also No. 51... if only to simplify the bookkeeping.
The Descent from Seth to Hezron will be our next stop along the Mother of All Family Trees, prior to our returning to the Generations of Ahmose... for an excursion up the 18th Dynasty of Egypt's Nile.
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