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THE QUEEN
Azita and Laleh were made to climb higher and higher, after entering the city, on other high stairs that led them into the imperial palace. The two chained women did not know it but because they had been considered very beautiful (Azita in particular) they had been destined to be examined by the Queen herself. Queen (or Empress) Semiramis - also known as Shammuramat - was the one who had power over the Assyrians and therefore commanded much of the ancient world, especially all that part of the world occupied by the Assyrians. She had been the wife of Nino, the emperor, and after her death she had become the queen of the Assyrian people. She had the power of life and death and was herself revered as a goddess. She sat on a white stone throne with the Goddess Nineveh depicted (hence the name of the capital of the Empire), Goddess of Love and War, or more simply of Life and Death. Semiramis was powerful and cruel, and she loved to surround herself with beautiful slaves to have fun with (after her husband's death she no longer wanted to mate with any man). Azita and Laleh were therefore destined, if Semiramis liked them, to become lovers of the Queen. Obviously Semiramis couldn't stand disobedience or even rejection, and the women tortured to death that the two slaves had encountered were a cruel testimony to this...
Azita and Laleh were made to climb higher and higher, after entering the city, on other high stairs that led them into the imperial palace. The two chained women did not know it but because they had been considered very beautiful (Azita in particular) they had been destined to be examined by the Queen herself. Queen (or Empress) Semiramis - also known as Shammuramat - was the one who had power over the Assyrians and therefore commanded much of the ancient world, especially all that part of the world occupied by the Assyrians. She had been the wife of Nino, the emperor, and after her death she had become the queen of the Assyrian people. She had the power of life and death and was herself revered as a goddess. She sat on a white stone throne with the Goddess Nineveh depicted (hence the name of the capital of the Empire), Goddess of Love and War, or more simply of Life and Death. Semiramis was powerful and cruel, and she loved to surround herself with beautiful slaves to have fun with (after her husband's death she no longer wanted to mate with any man). Azita and Laleh were therefore destined, if Semiramis liked them, to become lovers of the Queen. Obviously Semiramis couldn't stand disobedience or even rejection, and the women tortured to death that the two slaves had encountered were a cruel testimony to this...