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Amen-min. They blamed him when the soldiers went off to war and came back to find their wifes pregnant. He's depicted with only one arm and one leg as punishment. The ancient Egyptians believed that you would appear in the afterlife as you appeared in the temples. Thus if you were maimed in the temple, you were maimed for eternity. Touching the statue was apparently a sure-fire way to get pregnant, that's why it's stained.