Alexander the Great and the great eagle

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The tale of the great military leader Alexander the Great, the king of Macedonia is beginning the tale when this man was born, two big eagles landed on the roof of that temple, and that told the predictors, that this man was the man, who would make Macedonia bigger and more powerful than ever before. When we are thinking about this kind of tales, they might be written by priests, because they wanted that the next ruler of the kingdom had power and courage to lead the men to fight.


 And those predictions and signs, what was told to the kings were another things, the royal mission of the King was given by the form of those predictions. When the mission is done, the nation needed the new king. The fate of the Alexander was dying by accident or poison in India. When we are thinking about that case, Alexander might cause his death by himself, because he was a heavy drink and violent person after drinking too much. Because his bodyguards didn't stop that man, when he was drunk, that caused the death of many of his friends.


The king might get angry if somebody said something against him during parties, and take his sword. Sometimes I have thought that could the death caused the destruction of the liver, and if the man was heavy drinking, the reason could be liver cirrhosis or somebody could give him something, what destroys the liver. Maybe he was bitten by Boomslang-snake, what poison destroys the liver. That kind of poisons is in the cells and bacteria, what is living in the polluted water, and if Alexander ordered to bring him water, could somebody give him the water, that was not boiled or what was took from some standing pond, what is full of bacteria. Sometimes the reason could be mentioned that somebody would hit Alexander to the stomach and cause the rip of the spleen.



But normally the reason is mentioned the poisoning by Spatter root. The symptoms what are marked in that case, like cold feelings might cause also by Malaria, but the reason could be blood leak inside the body. The empire of Macedonia has existed the very short time. The creator of this remarkable state was the Philippos II and the second and the last king was Alexander the Great. Of course, there is the child of Alexander, who was born after his death, but this man Alexander IV didn't have power in the empire. The reason for the short period of the existing of the empire of Macedonia is sometimes wondered.


Sometimes the reason for murder is mentioned, that somebody wanted to revenge the loss of Greece or Sparta to Macedonian Kings. And maybe the poison was given by some Greek patriots, who wanted to stop the Macedonian power in that peninsula. But why they wanted to choose the poison? And why the poisoning happened in far away from home? Maybe those murderers wanted to set some men who were boring for war as the guilty of that action. But the reason for murder might be that somebody in Greece wanted to hide the reason for Macedonian easy winning in the battlefield, that caused the occupations. And maybe Greeks buy the father of Alexander Philippos II that he would attack Greece to stop the power of Sparta in that area.


This plan would be perfect for some book or computer game. The people were made the plan that Sparta would destroy Athene first in Peloponnesian war, and then Sparta was kicked off by Macedonian army. This would allow Greeks to kill their countrymen, and the foreign enemy would combine that area. And Macedonia was the better enemy than other Greeks because that would drive all peninsula to bloody war against together. Greece was united once because the Persia attacked that country, but then there was begin the war, what took 27 years and ended year 404 B.C. And maybe the Greeks called Macedonia for making the situation stable. Philippos II was born in year 382 B.C and died in year 336 B.C, and he would be the perfect man to lead the army against Athena and Sparta because he was born about 20 years after the end of the Peloponnesian war. The reason, why Greeks were so dispersed was probably, that they didn't want the combination under the rule of Sparta or Athene.


The great time of that powerful empire began when Philippos II has occupied Greece and ended when his son was dead in India. The occupation of Greece caused the end of the Spartan rule in the Peloponnesian peninsula and made the situation in the Greece relaxing. Of course, the Spartans had occupied Athene before that, and sometimes I have thought, that did somebody paid to Philippos, that he would attack Greece and kick Sparta out of power? That could be the nice conspiracy theory in the ancient philosophical talking.

Heath mind in healthy body: Roman and Greek statues and why they are made

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

When we are looking for some statues from the ancient Greek and Rome, we must see that the models of those statues are quite well physical strength. Of course, the artists have made the same kind of statues even in the modern era, but they have copied the style of those statues. So those medieval- and renaissance statues can be said as the "roman" or "Greek statues". When we are talking about those sculptures what are shown the sportsman or something like that, we must think that those statues are made for some purpose.

The statues are very high-level handwork, and they are made of expensive materials. Molds what are used were high-class work and those sculptors hadn't got computerized working equipment and the work was high standard titivated. So the question is "why those well-known statues have been created"? Those statues purpose is probably to be some teaching artifact.


They were used as the model of "perfect man". The mission of the statue is probably to show anatomical dimensions of the perfect sportsman for the people, who selected the gamers to the Greek Olympics. And in those days the mission of the Olympics was to help the leaders of the Greek states to select the warriors to their phalanx. Even in those times of the war of the Peloponnese, the philosophers have thought, what kind of person is the perfect warrior?


What kind of persons is the best for the best? Those people were selected as professional warriors for the Greek phalanx, and their mission was also to protect the leaders of the nation or city-states. So the Olympics were the good place to take meters for the men, who won those games. Greek philosophers had limited methods for use in the selection process.


In that time the most hardcore military in the western world was, of course, the Spartan military, Nowadays the scientists can use DNA-tests to select perfect military men, and they can take DNA-samples from the best special forces operators, and then compile them together, and if it is same sequences between the operators, those sequences might use for help to select that personnel in the most hardcore military operators in the world.

What actually means world "Aryan race" when we are talking about totalitaristic governments?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

When Nazi leaders talked about Aryan race they normally didn't actually mean any kind of race in a genetic or phenotypic way. In those people mind was little bit different kind of human than we normally think. The "Aryan" in Nazi philosophy was soldier type who just follows orders wat are given to them without saying nothing against their leaders. That philosophy was made for totalitarian thinkers and people who wanted to be great leaders to their homelands. It means that those "Aryan" soldiers are trained from childhood to take orders and follow their leaders, and that methodology of growing children basis from ancient Greece and city-state named as Sparta.


That city was known about tough soldiers who never surrender. And methodology what was used to those people growing was very straight. They were taken to the state just after their birth, and after that, all Spartans were members of a great clan known as a phalanx. Those soldiers were absolutely loyal to their leaders, and their way of life was legendary. This methodology supported by a philosopher whose name was Plato. Plato's idea of the state was so nice for totalitarian leaders because in Plato's ideal state nobody could ever rise on stairs of the nation.


That was not the only reason why Plato was so popular in a dictatorship. His idea of mankind was nobody ever have right to think against great philosophers and warriors who were above helots, slave workers who made every job in that ideal state. Plato's pyramidic shape society was also a Spartan way to train a soldier. Everybody stated that job as an helote, and when they got enough muscle could some of those soldier rise as commander of the phalanx of Sparta or even philosopher.


Plato's ideal state and other writings are the base of new kind of philosophy. The culmination of that kind of thinking was Nietzsche's theory of over human leadership. In that theory persons who are more intelligent, have more power and have higher ethical standards can rise to lead regular people.  Many people think that Nietzsche was the inventor of Nazism. But truth is that this ideology basis from Plato's ideas.


None of the dictators can say no to loyal soldiers who do exactly what he wants. That's why the Spartan method of growing children is so interesting. And of course, Sparta is one of the most analyzed things in history. Modern leaders want also very loyal and tough militaristic organization around them. One man named Hassan ibn al-Sabbah was created the same kind of system around him. That might be impressed even toughest Nazi-leaders when they read the text where Al-Sabbah ordered his followers to kill themselves after they attacked to some crusaders home during crusades.


And of course, that same idea was taken in Samurai training in Japan. If those legendary warriors fail, they killed themselves.  They also made suicide when their leaders say that they must do that. How Hitler wanted to rule was very straight. He didn't want laws to control his power. And the idea of Nazi government was that children will take to custody and will be trained as "werewolves".


Those children were grown for nazi-ideology, and in those men mind was new kind of soldier. Killing machine who was absolutely loyal to them, and who had only one the moralistic- ethical way of thinking, and that was what this soldier's superiorities wanted that this person had. That new type of soldier "Aryan" was humanoid for other people. He followed orders precisely, and that made him a weapon in hands of government.