Holding the symbols of office, she ascended the throne.  Once the place where her husband sat, it was now hers, by a right that she was about to assert…  Turning, she chuckled to herself as the long beard attached to her chin brushed her chest. She’d put on all of her dead husband’s regalia, knowing that despite her female form, the symbols would connote their own power.  “By order of the god Khnum who made the gods out of clay, and who appeared to me in a dream last night, I was told to assume the rule of Egypt.  ‘I…