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The trouble with him is there's so many complete bullshit stories, like him having magical powers, and it's mixed in with any real information we have. We don't have much in the way of real historical information about him that wasn't written by simps who literally believed he was a god.
One of the most ludicrous fables that I still see being taken seriously is that he drew the plan for Alexandria on a napkin and suddenly the city was built out of nothing. We're supposed to believe that Rhacotis was just a "fishing village" until Alexander got there. Well it was a pretty fricking important fishing village if it plays such a big role in the Odyssey several centuries earlier.
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Cope, if anything they downplayed his godly powers because the real thing would appear too absurd
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His powers weren't working that great in India.
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All the shit in the street works as an antigod field
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One of my favorite things about Alexander is that he was so much worshiped and romanticized, to the extent that Islam went as far as to posthumously declare that Alexander was a monotheist who worshiped Allah, predicted the coming of Muhammad, and was mentioned very favorably in the Quran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhu_al-Qarnayn
https://www.al-islam.org/hayat-al-qulub-vol-1-stories-prophets-muhammad-baqir-majlisi/account-dhul-qarnayn
One would expect that Islam would be the Abrahamic religion that is the least likely to whitewash Polytheists and pre-Muhammad non-Abrahamic prophets, especially the one that worshiped a ton of gods of many nations, built many temples to these gods, and was later on deified as a god himself, but nope, in Muslim lore, Alexander was actually a Mujahideen of Tawhid who waged Jihad against the Hindpoos and Zoroastricuck Mushrikin
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The idea of “this pagan was actually a Christian/Jew/Muslim” was so popular in these religions that the early Christians actually had a term meant to mock these stories. Insert something about how queer theory claims rando historical people were actually gay.
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what was the term?
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Islam even has its own versio of name alexander.
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Wypipo always getting into something!
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Not believing all the stories is magical being erasure tbh
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They're all real, stop commuting BIPOC erasure chud
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