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Before I begin this week's episode, I must amend my discussion of last week. In episode 9 I proposed that Kandy Kause was

daughter of Men Cowray and the wife of Shepsestarf, who took power through marriage to the princess and fathered a new line of rulers.

This, I now believe, is not wholly accurate.

In researching Shepseskaf and his successor Usurkaf, I came across some new scholarship that has fundamentally altered my perception.

This scholar, Vivian G. calendar of the University of Sydney has advanced a very well developed and convincing theory that upends much of the scholarship I had originally read on this topic.

Simply stated, we must now amend our argument thus.

Kenticauis was in fact not the daughter of Mencaure, but rather his sister,

and daughter instead of Kaffre, second of the Giza pyramid builders.

Shepses-Kaff and Usher-Kaff were her sons, both of whom came to the throne and earned for their mother the august title of

moot Nesut Beatty, or mother of two kings of upper and lower Egypt.

The royal mother wielded extensive power during her son's reign and was sufficiently

authoritative for a representation of her to bear the Royal Insignia and Crowns. Her title, Daughter of the God, refers to Kaffre rather than Men Kauray, and the

absence of any title referring to her as a royal wife makes much more sense when we allow for Shepsestaff to be her son rather than husband.

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