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genesis chapter 40 The Pharaoh was displeased with his cup bearer and the baker and tossed them in jail. Joseph was assigned to them. After some time, they had some wacky dreams. Joseph could tell they had troubled sleep. "What's up." Joe asked. "Wild dreams that no one understands." "God can figure them out." The cup bearer, thinking that was cool, told his dream. "So on this vine, what I saw were three branches. Before you could shake a stick, they'd budded and burst into grapes. I squeezed them into the Pharaoh's cup and gave it to him." "That's cool, you have your old job back in three days. Mention me to the Pharaoh. I was kidnapped and I didn't fuck his wife." The barber thought that was all pretty nice so he told his dream. "Three baskets did I have on my head. The birds where eating the food out of the top one." "Oh that's easy. In three days the Pharaoh will rip off you head, impale you on a pole and the birds will devour your flesh." What Joseph told them came true but the cup bearer forgot about him.

The Crowd Pleaser of Spring Sing 2007. Directed by Luke Williamson and Whit Stroup Inspired by Daniel Robison Starring Adam Carmichael as Head Caf Worker Ashley Bricks as Uptown Girl Randy Lundy as Uptown Man Dish Washers Mark Berneking Daniel Robison Whit Stroup Card Swiper Brian Craft Cup Bearer Johnny Oldright Salad Bar Man Laney Stroup Mopper Luke Williamson Camera Girl Ashley Wolf Vdieo Editor Whit Stroup Special thanks to Mark for access to the caf. Special thanks to Johnny for the Pizza. All Glory to the Lord.

Here is a great song in the beautifull voice of Fazaa Fayyaz, the poem is by the great poet Ghani Khan. Just relax and listen to this great track! English Translation: Title: The Prison Dream I dream, I dream, and seek for it some answer from the world. I lie and rest my head on the beloveds lap; I dream that I set off like a butterfly; Fly round a narcissus and skim past a jasmine; Circle the necklace round the beloveds delicate neck And hail her, invisible, with silent greetings. I dream, and seek for it some answer from the world I dream... I dream that I set out shrouded in a zephyr; Go to my darlings side as a vision of love; Hang before her eyes like a desert dream, And lose in one jangle the riches of my life. I dream, and seek for it some answer from the world I dream... I dream of an evening at a garden full of flowers Red eyes of the cupbearer with wine in ruddy hands; Fingers on a sitar in elation like Khayyams, Gently turning over it the sweet fable of love. I dream, and seek for it some answer from the world I dream... I dream, I dream, and seek for it some answer from the world. I lie and rest my head on the beloveds lap; I dream... Written by Ghani Khan in Hyderabad Jail 1948 Translation by: www.Ghani.info Khoob Winam Alama Vocals: Fazaa Fayyaz Lyric: Ghani Khan Album: Khoob Music: Ivan Photography: Saif ur Rahman Hanif Baloch Post: said Ur Rahman Directed by Saifi Final Video Mixing by Brexna.com

Aquarius is the eleventh astrological sign in the Zodiac, originating from the constellation Aquarius. In western astrology, the sign is no longer aligned with the constellation as a result of the precession of the equinoxes. In astrology, Aquarius is considered a "masculine", positive (extrovert) sign. It is also considered an air sign and is one of four fixed signs. Aquarius has been traditionally ruled by the planet Saturn, and, since its discovery, Uranus has been considered a modern ruler of this sign. Being the eleventh sign of the zodiac, Aquarius is associated with the astrological 11th house. In mythology Aquarius is often associated with the mythological figure of Odysseus, King of Ithaca, from the Greek myth of the Trojan War. Aquarius is also associated with the Greco-Roman god Uranus/Caelus and sometimes the god Cronus/Saturn. In Grecian mythology, Aquarius is the constellation that was once Ganymede, cupbearer of the gods. The Age of Aquarius is one of the twelve astrological ages. Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long, on average, but there are various methods that can make ages much longer and shorter depending upon the technique used. Unlike sun-sign astrology where the first sign is Aries, followed by Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces whereupon following Pisces the cycle returns back to Aries and through the zodiacal signs again, the astrological ages proceed in the opposite direction or order. Therefore the age before the Age of Aquarius is the Age of Pisces. Following the Age of Aquarius will be the Age of Capricorn, then the Age of Sagittarius and so on. According to the Esoteric Christian tradition, Essenian and later Rosicrucian, the proximity and entrance in the Age of Aquarius - occurring after the present Age of Pisces (or age ruled by the "Sword") - will bring to the majority of human beings the discovery, true living and real knowledge of the inner and deeper Christian teachings which the Christ spoke of in Matthew 13:11 and Luke 8:10. This age is regarded as an intermediary preparation toward the Christ in the etheric plane, the New Galilee: the "new heavens and a new earth" to come in a future not identified time. In the Aquarian age at hand it is expected a great spiritual Teacher to come ("is coming"), through the school which works as herald of this age, in order "to give the Christian Religion impetus in a new direction" The term Rosicrucian describes a secret society of mystics, allegedly formed in late mediaeval Germany, holding a doctrine "built on esoteric truths of the ancient past", which, "concealed from the average man, provide insight into nature, the physical universe and the spiritual realm. " In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (in Greek, Ἀπόλλων—Apóllōn or Ἀπέλλων—Apellōn), is one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian deities. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu. Apollo was worshipped in both ancient Greek and Roman religion, as well as in the modern Hellenic neopaganism. And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. The Star (XVII) is the seventeenth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well as in divination. A naked woman kneels by the water; one foot is in the water, one foot is on the land. Above her head a star shines out. In each hand she holds a jug. From one jug she pours a liquid into the water. From the other jug she pours a liquid onto the land. In other, older decks a woman (or sometimes even a man) is simply looking and sometimes gesturing at a large star in the sky. 100 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Did you wish upon a star? And did that get you very far? So did you wish upon a star? Tell me...

The last 2,500 years have been tough on the Greek Gods. As a final option, Zeus pays a visit to his former cupbearer, Ganymede

Elijah and Lydia's very own unique presentation of the account of Joseph interpreting the Cook and the Cup Bearer's dreams whilst in prison in Egypt. The narration is an exact reading of this passage taken from the Contemporary English Version (CEV).

You are a sudden resurrection from Molavi or Rumi in translation of Nader Khalili Fountain of Fire book can be requested at: http://www.calearth.org You are a sudden resurrection An endless bliss You set a fire In the meadows Of our dreams Laughing today You are happy Crashing the prisons Blessing the poor Like God himself Unveiling the sun Spreading hope Bestowing a quest Being the quest Beginning a beginning Setting the end Filling hearts Arranging minds Giving desires And filling desires To make a meager living Is not worth the suffering I let go of preaching And fill myself with sweets I set the paper aside Break my pen Name myself silence I see the cup-bearer is arriving now ای رستخیز ناگهان وی رحمت بی منتهی ای آتشی افروخته در بیشه اندیشه ها امروز خندان آمدی مفتاح زندان َآمدی بر مستمندان آمدی چون بخشش و فضل خدا خورشید را حاجب توئی امید را واجب توئی مطلب توئی طالب توئی هم منتهی هم مبتدا در سینه ها برخاسته اندیشه را آراسته هم خویش حاجت خواسته هم خویشتن کرده روا ای روحبخش بی بدل وی لذت علم و عمل باقی بهانه ست و دغل کاین علت آمد وان دوا خامش که بس مستعجلم رفتم سوی پای علم کاغذ بنه بشکن قلم ساقی درآمد الصلا

Hadith: "On Judgment Day, every means shall be cut off, and every lineage severed, except my lineage." Translation of Qasidah Ghawthiyya: Shaykh Nazim's Deputy, Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin is a 26th generation maternal grandson of Ghawth al-Adham Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani. This video of Qasidah Ghawthiyya, includes his family tree to Ghawth al-Adham. Translation of Qasidah Ghawthiyya: "Love gave me the goblets of union to drink, so I said to my wine: "Come here toward me!" It came running and walking toward me in tumblers,so I experienced ecstasy in my drunkenness among the Masters. I said to all the Cardinal Poles: " Assemble at my tavern, and enter, for you are my men! Experience ecstasy, and drink, you are my soldiers!' So the cupbearer of the [Lord's] people was quick to bring me sufficient supply. You drank what I had left over after I got drunk, but you did not reach my exaltation and my state of connection. High is your station, each and all, and yet my station is above you, higher still. In the presence of nearness I am on my own; the Lord of Majesty disposes of me, and He is enough for me! I am the grey falcon of every Shaikh. And who among men has received the same as I! He clad me in a robe in honor's style, and crowned me with perfection's crowns. He made me aware of an ancient secret, invested me with rank and gave me all I asked. He has appointed me over all the Cardinal Poles, so my decision is effective in every case. Were I to cast my innermost being into the oceans they would all become a depression in the void. Were I to cast my innermost being upon the mountains, they would be leveled low and disappear among the sands. Were I to cast my innermost being upon a fire, it would die out and be extinguished by the secret of my state. Were I to cast my innermost being upon a corpse, it would rise up through the power of the Lord and walk for me. Neither months nor long ages of time pass and go by without my getting news. They inform me of what is to come and to happen, and let me know when to cease from debate. My disciple, experience ecstasy, have fun, relax, sing, do what you will, for the name is a high one. My disciple, do not fear! Allah, my Lord, has given me eminence; I have attained the heights. Drums sounded in heaven and on the earth, and the sergeant of bliss appeared to me. The lands of Allah are my kingdom under my rule, and my time before my transformation has been happy for me. I looked upon all the cities of Allah together as a mere mustard,seed compared to my connection [with Him]. I studied knowledge till I became a Cardinal Pole, and gained felicity from the Lord of lords. My men are fasting in the midday heat, like pearls in the darkness of the night. Every saint has a precedent, and I am in the footstep of the Prophet, the full moon of perfection. A Makkan Hijazi Hashimi Prophet is my ancestor by whom I obtained friends/followers. Who is like me among the Awliya' of Allah and like me in knowledge and action. My disciple, do not fear a traitor, for I am a resolute slayer in the fray. I am al-Jili Muhyi'd-din is my name, and my banners are on the mountain peaks. I am al-Hasani and the inner chamber is my station,and my feet are on the necks of men. Well am I known by the name of 'Abd al-Qadir, and my forefather is the very master of perfection." http://www.alsunnahfoundation.org/naqib/naqibalashraaf.htm

1 Timothy 1:8-10: the letters a-f indicate the pattern of putting connected GROUPS of people in the enumeration 1 Tim 1.8 Wir wissen aber, dass das Gesetz gut ist, wenn jemand es gesetzmaessig gebraucht, 1.9 indem er dies weiss, dass fuer einen Gerechten das Gesetz nicht bestimmt ist, sondern fuer (a)Gesetzlose und Widerspenstige, fuer (b)Gottlose und Suender, fuer (c)Heillose und Unheilige, (d)Vatermoerder und Muttermoerder, Moerder, 1.10 (e)*Unzuechtige, *Knabenschaender, Menschenraeuber, (f)Luegner, Meineidige, und wenn etwas anderes der gesunden Lehre entgegensteht, 1.11 nach dem Evangelium der Herrlichkeit des seligen Gottes, das mir anvertraut worden ist. 1 Timothy 1:9-10 (ENGLISH, RSV) A: lawless and disobedient B: ungodly and sinners C: unholy and profane D: murderers of fathers, murderers of mothers, manslayers E: immoral persons (Unzüchtige in Elberfelder), Sodomites (Knabenschänder), kidnappers F: liars, perjurers The Greek for "E" checked: E: pornoi, arsenokoitai, andrapodistai Pornos derives from the verb pernemi meaning "to sell" and the following three definitions are given: 1. a male who prostitutes his body to another's lust for hire 2. a male prostitute 3. a male who indulges in unlawful sexual intercourse, a fornicator Andrapodistes, the stem of the word Andrapodistai, the third word, returns the following definitions: 1. slave-dealer, kidnapper, man-stealer a. of one who unjustly reduces free males to slavery b. of one who steals the slaves of others and sells them. We have, first of all, the enslaved male prostitute, the "male-bedder" (arsenokoitai), and the slave dealer. The New American Bible offers a footnote that might shed some light on the historical context of the time: "The Greek word translated as boy prostitutes may refer to catamites, i.e. boys or young men who were kept for the purposes of prostitution, a practice not uncommon in the Greco-Roman world. In Greek mythology this was the function of Ganymede, the "cupbearer of the gods," whose Latin name was Catamus..." (NAB) ---- additional notes: Lev 18:1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: I am the Lord your God. 3 You shall not do according to the custom of the land of Egypt, in which you dwelt: neither shall you act according to the manner of the country of Chanaan, into which I will bring you, nor shall you walk in their ordinances. "For they [Judah] also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree; and there were also male cult prostitutes [qadeshim] in the land. They did according to all the abominations [plural of toevah] of the nations which the LORD drove out before the people of Israel." -- 1 Kings 14:23-24 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Religious prostitutes impacted Israel greatly (Deut. 23:17-18; I Ki 14:22-24, 15:11-13, 22:45-46; 2 Ki 23:4-7) ! It seems the theme is all about sexual acts in connection to idolatry, NOT homosexuality as such.

I Composed this work in 2003 for Stockholms wind orchestra who also performd it the same year. This year 2008 I assembled the music with some film matrial which I recorded in Morocco and in Egypt. Mythology of Saturn In Babylon he was called Ninib and was an agricultural deity. Saturn, called Cronus by the Greeks, was, at the dawn of the Ages of the Gods, the Protector and Sower of the Seed and his wife, Rhea, (called Ops by the Romans) was a Harvest Helper. Cronus was one of the the Seven Titans or Numina and with them, reigned supreme in the Universe. The Titans were of incredible size and strength and held power for untold ages, until they were deposed by Zeus. The first inhabitants of the world were the children of Gaia (Mother Earth) and Ouranos (Father Sky). These creatures were very large and manlike, but without human qualities. They were the qualities of Earthquake, Hurricane and Volcano living in a world where there was yet no life. There were only the irresistible forces of nature creating mountains and seas. They were unlike any life form known to man. Three of these creatures were monstrously huge with one hundred hands and fifty heads. Three others were individually called Cyclops, because each had only one enormous eye in the middle of their foreheads. Then, there were the Titans, seven of them, formidably large and none of whom were purely destructive. One was actually credited with saving man after creation. Ouranos hated the children with the fifty heads. As each was born he placed it under the earth. Gaia was enraged by the treatment of her children by their father and begged the Cyclopes and the Titans to help her put an end to the cruel treatment. Only the Titan, Cronus, responded. She forms a sickle, and asks Cronus to castrated his father, "For it was he/Who first began devising shameful acts."She gives him the sickle, hides him in her, Cronus lay in wait for his father and castrated him with his sickle, preventing him from having more children. From Ouranos's blood sprang the Giants, a fourth race of monsters, and the Erinyes (the Furies), whose purpose was to punish sinners. They were referred to as "those who walk in darkness" and were believed to have writhing snakes for hair and eyes that cried blood. Though eventually all the monsters were driven from Earth, the Erinyes are to remain until the world is free of sin. With the deposing of his father, Cronus (Saturn) became the ruler of the Universe for untold ages and he reigned with his sister, Rhea (Ops), who also became his wife. It was prophesied that one day Cronus would lose power when one of his children would depose him. To prevent this from happening, each time Rhea delivered a child Cronus would immediately swallow it fearing it would succeed him. When her sixth child, Zeus, was born, Rhea had him spirited away to the island of Crete. She then wrapped a stone in his swaddling clothes. Her deception was complete when Cronus swallowed it, thinking it was the child. When Zeus was grown, he secured the job of cup-bearer to his father. With the help of Gaia, his grandmother, Zeus fed his father a potion that caused him to vomit up Zeus's five siblings, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon. A devastating war that nearly destroyed the Universe ensued between Cronus and his five brothers and Zeus and his five brothers and sisters. Zeus persuaded the fifty headed monsters to fight with him which enabled him to make use of their weapons of thunder, lightning and earthquake. He also convinced the Titan, Prometheus, who was incredibly wise, to join his side. With his forces, Zeus was victorious and the Olympians reigned supreme. Cronus and his brothers were imprisoned in the Tartarus, a dark, gloomy region at the end of the Earth. We are all Saturn's children in that our mortal bodies are eventually devoured by father time and our psyches by our parents' shadows, the latter to the extent to which we do not fight for the light with which we were born. Saturn, however, is not only our devourer but our liberator, if, while we live, we learn to bow our will to the way the world is, or more precisely, to who and what we are. And the dialogue between knowing who we are and creating who we are is a life in the dominion of time. Saturn symbolizes our crucifixion in a world of time and space: immortal spirit bound in a mortal, dying body. Dylan Thomas' Fern Hill poignantly expresses one human experience of Saturn: "Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea."

Oh yes... She had to get this when we were at the mall today. She was demonstrating it for everyone at KayBee Toys. Although it is likely that flatulence humor has long been considered funny in cultures that consider the public passing of gas impolite, such jokes are rarely recorded. An important early text is the 5th century BC play The Knights by Aristophanes which has numerous fart jokes. Another example from classical times appeared in Apocolocyntosis or The Pumpkinification of Claudius, a satire attributed to Seneca on the late Roman emperor: At once he bubbled up the ghost, and there was an end to that shadow of a life....The last words he was heard to speak in this world were these. When he had made a great noise with that end of him which talked easiest, he cried out, "Oh dear, oh dear! I think I have made a mess of myself." He later explains he got to the afterlife with a quote from Homer: "Breezes wafted me from Ilion unto the Ciconian land." In the translated version of Penguin's 1001 Arabian Nights Tales, a story entitled "The Historic Fart" tells of a man that flees his country from the sheer embarrassment of farting at his wedding. One of the most celebrated incidences of flatulence humor in early English literature is in The Miller's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer which dates from the 14th Century. The character Nicholas hangs his buttocks out of a window and farts in the face of his rival Absolom. Absolom then sears Nicholas's bum with a red-hot poker ("Nicholas quickly raised the window and thrust his arse far out...At this Nicholas let fly a fart with a noise as great as a clap of thunder, so that Absolom was almost overcome by the force of it. But he was ready with his hot iron and smote Nicholas in the middle of his arse."). (Lines 690--707) François Rabelais' tales of Gargantua and Pantagruel are laden with acts of flatulence. In Chapter XXVII of the second book, the giant, Pantagruel, releases a fart that "made the earth shake for twenty-nine miles around, and the foul air he blew out created more than fifty-three thousand tiny men, dwarves and creatures of weird shapes, and then he emitted a fat wet fart that turned into just as many tiny stooping women."[1] Benjamin Franklin, in his open letter "To the Royal Academy of Farts", satirically proposes that converting farts into a more agreeable form through science should be a milestone goal of the Royal Academy. In Mark Twain's 1601, properly named [ Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors, a cupbearer at Court who's a Diarist reports: In ye heat of ye talk it befel yt one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mightie and distresfull stink, whereat all did laugh full sore. The Queen inquires as to the source, and receives various replies. Lady Alice says "Good your grace, an' I had room for such a thundergust within mine ancient bowels, 'tis not in reason I coulde discharge ye same and live to thank God for yt He did choose handmaid so humble whereby to shew his power. Nay, 'tis not I yt have broughte forth this rich o'ermastering fog, this fragrant gloom, so pray you seeke ye further."[2]. Flatulence humor and the lighting of farts also appears in cinema: Farting featured heavily in one scene of Blazing Saddles. This caused some controversy in the United States: when it was run as a television movie of the week by ABC the farting sounds were overdubbed with sounds from the surrounding horses, so the scene had cowboys sitting around a campfire standing up and leaning over for no apparent reason (Dawson, 1999, p. 125). "I fart in your general direction" is a popular phrase from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The lighting of flatulence is a plot device in the movie, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and flatulence in general is featured prominently in many South Park episodes, noteably "Spontaneous Combustion". A whoopee cushion, also known as a poo-poo cushion and Razzberry Cushion, is a practical joke device that produces a noise resembling a raspberry or human flatulence. It is made from two sheets of rubber that are glued together at the edges. There is a small opening with a flap at one end for air to enter and leave the cushion. To use it, one must first inflate it with air and then place it on a chair. An unsuspecting victim sits on the whoopee cushion, forcing the air out of the opening which causes the flap to vibrate and produce its distinctive sound. The item was invented around 1940 by the Jem Rubber Co. of Toronto, Canada by employees who were experimenting with scrap sheets of rubber.

Nehemiah 1 1.The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, 2That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and [certain] men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. 3And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province [are] in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also [is] broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. 4And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned [certain] days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, 5.And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: 6Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned. 7We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses. 8Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, [If] ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: 9But [if] ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, [yet] will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there. 10Now these [are] thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand. 11O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

In the footsteps of Alexander The Great In this award winning adventure Micheal Wood embarks on a 2000 mile journey in the foot steps of Alexander's triumphal march from Greece to India. Travelling with Lebanese traders, Iranian pilgrims and Afghan guerillas, by jeep, train, boat, camel and on foot, he interweaves the momentous events of the past with present day reality and brings us new insights into a man whose myth and acheivements still resonate down the centuries "We saw things I can scarcely believe. We took shelter for the night with an Afghan warlord who had delivered pizzas in the United States, and were hauled off to jail more than once. It was one of the great experiences of my life" - Michael Wood On the afternoon of June 10--11, 323 B.C., Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon. He was just one month short of attaining 33 years of age. Various theories have been proposed for the cause of his death which include poisoning by the sons of Antipater or others, sickness that followed a drinking party, or a relapse of the malaria he had contracted in 336 BC. It is known that on May 29, Alexander participated in a banquet organized by his friend Medius of Larissa. After some heavy drinking, immediately before or after a bath, he was forced into bed due to severe illness. The rumors of his illness circulated with the troops causing them to be more and more anxious. On June 9, the generals decided to let the soldiers see their king alive one last time. They were admitted to his presence one at a time. Because the king was too ill to speak, he confined himself to moving his hand. The day after, Alexander was dead. Cause The poisoning theory derives from the story held in antiquity by Justin and Curtius. The original story stated that Cassander, son of Antipater, viceroy of Greece, brought the poison to Alexander in Babylon in a mule's hoof, and that Alexander's royal cupbearer, Iollas, brother of Cassander, administered it. Many had powerful motivations for seeing Alexander gone, and were none the worse for it after his death. Deadly agents that could have killed Alexander in one or more doses include hellebore and strychnine. In R. Lane Fox's opinion, the strongest argument against the poison theory is the fact that twelve days had passed between the start of his illness and his death and in the ancient world, such long-acting poisons were probably not available. The warrior culture of Macedon favoured the sword over strychnine, and many ancient historians, like Plutarch and Arrian, maintained that Alexander was not poisoned, but died of natural causes. Instead, it is likely that Alexander died of malaria or typhoid fever, which were rampant in ancient Babylon. Other illnesses could have also been the culprit, including acute pancreatitis or the West Nile virus[20]. Recently, theories have been advanced stating that Alexander may have died from the treatment not the disease. Hellebore, believed to have been widely used as a medicine at the time but deadly in large doses, may have been overused by the impatient king to speed his recovery, with deadly results. Disease-related theories often cite the fact that Alexander's health had fallen to dangerously low levels after years of heavy drinking and suffering several appalling wounds (including one in India that nearly claimed his life), and that it was only a matter of time before one sickness or another finally killed him. No story is conclusive. Alexander's death has been reinterpreted many times over the centuries, and each generation offers a new take on it. What is certain is that Alexander died of a high fever on June 10 or 11 of 323 BC. Additional Tags: Μακεδονια ελλας θεσσαλονικη Megas Alexandros Macedonians Hellas Hellenistic Persia Empire Darius Cyrus Asia Iran Afghanistan Pakistan Tribe Greek Religion Dionysus Apollo Athena War Hephaesteon Achilles Troy Pagans Descent DNA blood Pakistan India Persia Iran Susa Persepolis Rule World Tehran Kabul Lebanon Palestine Beirut Tyre Gaza Kurdistan Iraq Egypt Oracle Middle East Islam Muslim Dance Hinduism Indus Valley Punjab the five rivers indo aryans Porus Indian Elephants War Khyber Pass Hydaspes Battle Of Issus Issus Gaugamela Granicus Porus Babylon Death Bed Diadochoi Fate