Ptolemy Tales

Taking an educated guess.....I think the whole lot of the Ptolemies were a multi generation family of witches and sorcerers.

Alexander, The Ptolemies...And All That Jazz

I was wondering today, of all days if it wasn't the Ptolmies who brought about the Greek names to the Egyptian Gods...But I had to go to work and came up with something else to look about when I got home. It concerned Alexander The Great. So this is what I came up with.....

"Alexander's body was placed in a gold anthropoid sarcophagus, which was in turn placed in a second gold casket.[114] According to Aelian, a seer called Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid to rest "would be happy and unvanquishable forever".[115] Perhaps more likely, the successors may have seen possession of the body as a symbol of legitimacy (it was a royal prerogative to bury the previous king).[116] At any rate, Ptolemy stole the funeral cortege, and took it to Memphis.[114][115] His successor, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, transferred the sarcophagus to Alexandria, where it remained until at least Late Antiquity"

I'm thinking that perhaps the Ptolemies not only stole the body and hid it but buried each of their ruling family members in the same tomb. It sound probable to me.

Now if you want a real ...'out there theory'...how about this. I ran across a bit of fiction written a couple of years ago about Alexander. Now take into account Fiction can be a channeled truth, in part. From the synopsis there may have been a personal demon attached to Alexander as a child.
If the Ptolemies stole the body and kept it...could not the personal demon been transferred to them through each generation.

Since my obervances of the curse in action I refer to someone as 'The Dark Prince' which is the name of the book, by David Gemmel. This is the over view.

Book overview
The chaos spirit had chosen the child Alexander to be its human host. But Parmenion, most powerful warrior of ancient Greece, had won a small victory over the darkness that sought to rule through Alexander. The boy's soul had not been destroyed by evil, but instead had merged with it -- and now Parmenion aided Alexander in the battle between light and dark that constantly raged within him.
But there was another world, where the creatures of Greece's legends still flourished. There, the chaos spirit already ruled, through a demon king. In this Greece, there was a prophecy that a child of great power, the legendary golden child, would come and restore the fading magic of the land to the creatures of myth. The demon king believed also that devouring the heart of this fabled child would give him immortality. He believed Alexander, with the power of the chaos spirit within him, to be that child. And so he called Alexander into his world . . .
Only Parmenion, guided by the seeress Derae, his lost love from another life, could hope to save Alexander from the demon king. But who could save the young prince from the chaos spirit that threatened to conquer his soul?

Everything has an energy and everything has a reality....No matter what the lie or fable may be......What if this is the basis of Cleo's Curse? I will tell you this. When Hawass digs for Cleo he may find the whole nest of Ptolemies and Alexander too.

I mused what if Whatz-Her-Face had been Marc Anthony in a past life...BUT what if she who had been a Queen who 'lost her head' once a long time ago. Bernice was her name and wasting funds was her game...Til Daddy got home that is.

Sobek Has A Snack

It seems a Dalmatian got attacked in a Hanna Park in Jacksonville, FL1` over the weekend Why am I covering it? Because it seems that on occasion I would dream of walking among Alligators/Crocodiles unharmed. This as I would discover was a protective omen accorded to Pharaohs. But what is also fascinating is that there were two centers for the worship of Crocodiles, that was Kom Ombo which the picture is from it's temple and Crocodiliopolis. Which was renamed....By a Ptolemy....Arsinoe. I didn't include a picture of that center because ll that is left is an obelisque.

Kom Ombo was built, as it seems a good deal of Egypt, by the Ptolemies. And what they didn't build they restored. They reigned for over 300 years, but when you think of it, it was an amazing feat that they got so much done in that amount of time.

Bringing Cleopatra Back To Life---Her Palace That Is

Some of the world's most exciting sunken treasures could soon be on view after Egypt confirmed plans to build a giant underwater museum in the Mediterranean.

But as preparation begins on the site of Cleopatra's Palace in Alexandria, funding and technical problems are proving as divisive and controversial as the famed queen herself.

Ancient Alexandria was one of the world's great centres of civilisation, and since excavations in the eastern harbour began in 1994, divers have unearthed thousands of historical objects. These have included 26 sphinxes, several vast granite blocks weighing up to 56 tonnes each, and even pieces of what is believed to be the Pharos of Alexandria lighthouse, one of the seven classic wonders of the world.

Remnants of Queen Cleopatra's palace complex are also submerged beneath the waves, after the island on which it stood fell victim to earthquakes in the 5th century.

Now ambitious but controversial plans are under way to open up this unique site via an immersed fibreglass tunnel which would enable close-up viewing of the underwater monuments. The designs were drawn up by the French architect Jacques Rougerie, a veteran of water-based construction projects, and have been backed by the United Nations cultural agency Unesco.

Next month a detailed technical survey will be launched. "If all goes according to plan, construction will begin in early 2010 and be completed within two and half years," says Ariel Fuchs, a scientific director at Rougerie's firm.

The idea is also being promoted by the high-profile marine archaeologist Franck Goddio, who is currently touring Europe with a selection of artefacts already dredged up from the Alexandrian coastline.

Yet the project is running into obstacles. Funding for the museum, which will cost up to $140m (£98m), has not yet been secured.

The government is hoping private companies and organisations will foot the bill, but a member of the architectural team admitted that "nobody is clear about where the financing will come from".

Even if money does come through, a series of formidable technical challenges await the museum's builders, including the question of how to combat the bay's notoriously murky waters to improve visibility in the tunnel, and the problem of ensuring the structure is strong enough to withstand underwater currents.

More worryingly, the project has been accused by sceptical locals of being little more than a ''corporate theme park'' with many doubting it will be built at all.

"As an idea it's perfect," says Dr Ashraf Sabri, who runs a local dive centre specialising in marine heritage sites. "But you have to get down there and do the scientific work to see what is practical and what isn't. And month-in, month-out, this has not been done."

For Egypt, the stakes are high. Alexandria, the country's second city, has been long overshadowed by Cairo and Luxor, and the government wants it to become a new focal point for the 12 million foreign tourists that visit each year.

"For too long Alexandria's great history and multicultural background hasn't been sufficiently respected," says Naguib Amin, local site manager for the Supreme Council for Antiquities.

Amin rejected claims that money would be better spent giving a makeover to the city's crumbling downtown buildings, most of which feature stunning colonial-era architecture. "We view the museum as an integral component of revitalising the city as a whole," he said.