Posted on 04/08/2005 4:21:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
So are these different spellings or understandings of the same person or are you saying it's a different person altogether?
It's the same name/character reference as those exotic names are often subject to little variations (witness "Osama/Usama").
Nefertiti was definitely a proponent of one God, doubt it for Nefretiri. Not sure how Moses may have figured in with Nefertiti and Akhenaten, if at all. Your post makes me think that the new movie's makers could be mixed up.
I believe they are two different people.
But that doesn't make any sense. There was opportunity and a relationship with the woman "Nefretiri" who was to become queen.
Was "Queen Nefretiti" later married to Ramses?
What a freaking moron. A first year egyptologist could tell this guy he was smoking crack.
excerpt:
De Mille's final film the remake of his own The Ten Commandments (1956) took it's toll on both cast and crew. The 220 minute epic involved logistical nightmares from changing Anne Baxter's character from Nefertiti to Nefertiri (De Mille fretted the original name would lead to breast jokes) to attempting to have Charlton Heston as Moses carry actual stone tablets carved out of the real Mount Sinai.
That it's the same character is the only explanation that makes any sense. Thank you. The link provided spells it yet another way.
I think many of these old names have had a few translations and spellings. After all, she never wrote her name in English.
LMAO! De Mille obviously missed that one of her outfits is partly see through.
Well, THAT I never noticed. I guess we know what you were looking at. LOL
:)
Do you have a cite? I thought he married an Arab woman during his exile.
She is explicitly referenced in Numbers 12 - the woman Moses married, the Kushite (Ethiopian).
Making a film about Moses in an Islamic country is dangerous business. Muslims regard the use of actors to portray prophets to be blasphemy, regardless of content. A lot of them were even madder than Christians when Last Temptation of Christ (boring but not blasphemous IMO) was released.
THANK YOU! I'm glad someone finally posted the difference in the names. I swear Hollywood just makes up history as it goes along.
Are you familiar with Bloodline of the Holy Grail: The Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed, by Laurence Gardner?
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931412928/qid=1113009261/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/102-5300178-9102536)
Gardner lays out an interesting argument that Moses and Akhenaten (born Amenhotep IV) were the same person. I wonder if this movie will be drawing on this source.
Num 12:1
And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
My Catholic Bible says "Cushite" (with a "c" instead of the alternate "k" you cited earlier, both meaning the same, as happens with these terms).
Interestingly, blam posted a thread some time back in which an English Egyptologist claimed to have found the mummy of Nefertiti. She is now no longer allowed into Egypt.
Bust of Nefertiti from another angle. A good looking woman, truthfully.
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