Alexander the Great: Man and Myth
The Ancients
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The Trees of Life
Alexander's visit to a sacred grove, well beyond India, is famous for two oracular trees that can forte you your future. There are two trees in the Greek tradition. One is the tree of the moon who is supposed to talk in a female voice in Greek and then there is the other one, the sun, who is talking in a male voice in Indian. The text says that if you perform the right sacrifices and clean yourself, you can enter this grove which actually initiated by the priests of the trees. And then you kneel down and ask the trees about your future,. Alexander does this and asks if he can see his family, especially his mum, again if he
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