Interesting projection that, because the pharaohs supposedly wielded powers, then the statues of them did too; i.e., that the image and likeness (to borrow a phrase) was the source or expression of spiritual power.
It wasn’t mysogeny? It has to be mysogeny!
She was treated l8je every ither pharoah but evidence was REQUIRED to prove she was not mistreated worse.
I think historians have had a gender problem.
It makes sense especially, then, why God didn’t want His people involved in idol creation and worship, like the nearby pagans.
Sympathetic magic. One of humanities oldest beliefs. And yes the Egyptians were one group who believed in it.
...sort of. The Egyptians believed that a person's spirit, the Ka, needed a body to inhabit. If the real, physical body died (the Ba), then an appropriate replica would do. This might be the individual's mummy, or a statue, or an idol. The Egyptians were unsurpassed in creating statues and idols that did seem to have a spirit. Even we, so far removed from their belief system, can feel it by gazing at them.
If you go to the Egyptian collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the very good Egyptian collection at the Brooklyn Museum, you will see many examples of these statues that were placed in tombs and later defaced by robbers. Typically, the noses and mouths are mutilated, especially on the male statues. This was done, I believe, as a precaution by the robbers, to disable the Ka, the spirit, of the person whose tomb was being robbed so that it would not take its revenge on them.