Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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.

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