Pharaoh in Egyptian Religion

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"This research examines the position of the pharaoh in Egyptian religion. The research will set forth evidence of the overlap and convergence of divine and human aspects of the king in Egyptian culture from the period of the Old Kingdom through the New Kingdom (2686 to 1070 BC, Third through Twentieth Dynasties) with a view toward identifying the ratio between and among the pharaoh's political, religious, and ritual functions and how the reality and/or extent of the pharaoh's divinity was perceived.
Although the character and reach of the identification of the pharaoh with the divine shifted over the course of pharaonic civilization in Egypt, there persisted throughout the Old and New Kingdoms the view that the pharaoh had either divine attributes or divine nature and in either case had and exercised divine.."

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