Alexander the Oops

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Speaking of dreams, I was reading a little on Alexander the Can I Get That
Move Back?, aka the Great.  It's interesting because what is considered the
myth of Him is very similar to what is considered the history of Him.

How's it go, again?  I may need help here.  His father dies before he can
hammer out Persia, so it's left to Alex and his father's two bestest men to
do so.  In the process Alex gets to wondering about his father, as we all
do.  For some crazy reason, as great as Dad was, Alex begins to wonder if
his real father was not actually a god.  The Greeks, and in the case the
Macedon, were among the first peoples to calls "gods" those who in the past
were known more specifickly as the rocketpeople.  So Alex simply thought he
had alien genes.  For His myth, this meant that he wanted to not die, or to
at least have a biblical-length life.  In reality Alex did turn and go into
Upper Egypt, the historical section of Answartown.  Some weird priests
there confirm Alex's suspicions, but his mother was only half-rocket
herself, which means Alex is only a two-thirdsie.  Hence no immortality.
 Read your Rulebook, pal.  Of course the gods could *grant* him
immortality, as they did on occasion, like Ezekiel, for example, but not
little Alex.  They granted him *human* immortality instead.

Alex storms off, and by a type of really odd coincidence, he ends up going
into the three lands his forefathers seeded with advanced civilization, the
lands of the great rivers Nile, Euphrates, Tigris, and Indus.  Along the
way Alex more and more pronouncedly proclaims that he is a god.  It gets to
the point where he's quite open about it, and this goes into the historical
record as well as the mythological record.  On his first time through
Babylon Alex was favored in one victory, perhaps Nebachezzar's hometown, by
a bigtime omen, an eclipse I believe, of the Moon; then on the way back,
now definitely a god because he's beaten everyone, this same Omentown as
before has rebuilt, or something, and a new omen tells him not to enter, at
least not now.

What full-blown earth-conquering god is beneath puny omens?  Alex ignores
it and charges in.  He wins, but also catches a terrible cold and dies, at
age 31.
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