Rise of the Persians
The Ancients
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The Battle of Pasagada
Cyrus was the grandson of astyoges, and so had a right to the median throne anyway. But when astiages daughter was pregnant with cyrus, he had these terrible nightmares. One showed a vine which grew out of his daughter's genetalia and cand hat covered the earth. Another one where she urinated with such force that it completely drowned the whole of asia. He woke up with some cold sweats, not surprisingly, and had his dream interpreters come and say, the child that your daughter will bear will be greater than you. In another story, it's the she wolf who raises the baby and brings it up. Whatever it was, this is clearly
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