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92 - Is Christianity a Cuckold Religion?

The Symbolic World

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The Strange Relationship Between the Inside and the Outside

In the legend of Alexander, we see an attempt to solve this problem. The capacity to create something which is higher than the group or higher than the clan in order to cohere the clan in an even stronger way. On the one hand, Alexander is visibly the son of Philip of Macedon, but invisibly, he's also the son of this foreign king. So you can see there's a very complicated series of events happening here. In this attempt to make Alexander the son of Nick Tanibo, we can see all the things I've been telling you are in that version.

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