Talk:Seqenenre Tao

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The article deals with Tao II the Brave who's the same person that Sekenenra. --Comrade Che 1 16:23, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I have merged that article with this, as there were no links to the other article Markh 17:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Rename
After a discussion on my talk page, where another editor has written "The rationale is clear. From this newly published article, a limestone doorway uncovered at Karnak reveals the full titulary of king Senakhtenre--it is Senakhtenre Ahmose, not Senakhtenre Tao as Egyptologists simply assumed. So there Never was a first king Senakhtenre Tao and Seqenenre was the only king with the Tao name. Thus Seqenenre's wikipedia article ought to be just called "Seqenenre Tao"." I am renaming this article. 20:56, 23 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dougweller (talk • contribs)

Hiram Abif connection
The injuries sustained by Sequenenre and those of another mummy found close to his body provide evidence that Seqenenre may be the real-life seed of the Hiram Abif story of Masonic Lore. Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas explore his extensively in their book The Hiram Key. I strongly recommend reading it before commenting on this subject. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.204.209.59 (talk) 04:21, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
 * And that is mentioned at Hiram Abiff where we are told it is dismissed by most Masonic scholars, just as most if not all mainstream scholars dismiss everything written by Knight and/or Lomas. Dougweller (talk) 10:34, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Cause of death
"Until 2009 the main hypotheses have been that he died either in a battle against the Hyksos or was killed while sleeping;[6] A reconstruction of his death by Egyptologist Garry Shaw and a weapons expert suggested a third, which they saw as the likeliest, that Seqenenre was executed by the Hyksos king.[7] Garry Shaw also analysed the arguments for the competing hypotheses and other physical, textual and statistical evidence concluding "that the most likely cause of Seqenenre’s death is ceremonial execution at the hands of an enemy commander, following a Theban defeat on the battlefield."[8]"

Do we have to have every strange idea added to Wikipedia as if it made sense?

Shaw overlooks two obvious points in order to arrive at his bizarre conclusion.

1. Had Tao been captured, he would have been traded/exchanged not "cermonially executed". 2. Had he been "ceremonially executed" the body would not have been embalmed at all - but, in all likelihood, dumped in a ditch.

So clearly Tao was killed in battle. His men then found the body afterwards and that was why his embalming took place a little later than usual.

213.114.15.235 (talk) 10:02, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Repair of cranium
Why doesn't this article mention that his cranium fracture seems to have been repaired or concealed by the embalmers (leading to the fact that it was not detected in the first scans of the mummy)? Source 173.88.246.138 (talk) 03:26, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

Tao or Tao qen
A bunch of deciphered glyphs are ignored in his name.

In Greek Mythology, he is called "Telegonus", or "born far away", which makes sense from a Greek Perspective. The Coptic(Egyptian) equivalent would be Trigenes(ⲧⲣⲓⲅⲉⲛⲏⲥ), or thrice-begotten; that is consistent with Thoth, and the currently deciphered name's meaning: "Taa ("Thoth is great") the Brave"

https://pharaoh.se/pharaoh/Seqenenra 2601:58B:E7F:8410:DB2:7CB1:9F89:1392 (talk) 16:50, 3 February 2024 (UTC)