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Birth of Alexander   Olympias had a dream in which, following a clap of thunder, her womb was struck by a thunderbolt, starting a vigorous fire which then burst into flames and spread all over the place before dying down. Philip also had a dream in which he saw that one night, “a snake slithering slowly along the corridor outside and then entering their bed chamber silently. He could see it, but he could not move. The coils of the great reptile slid over the stone floor and in the moonlight that penetrated the room through the window, its scaled glinted with copper and bronze reflections. For a moment he wanted to wake up and take his wife in his arms, to hold her against his strong, muscular chest, to caress her with his big warrior's hands, but immediately he turned to look again at the huge animal that moved like a magic creature, like the creatures the gods summon from the bowels of the earth whenever the need arises. The snake worked its way under the blankets, it slipped between the legs of Olympias and between her breasts without hurting her at all, without violence. He dreamed that its seed mingled with his. The snake was pressing a seal on his wife’s womb and that the emblem on the seal was the figure of a lion. He had collapsed under the weight of his own exhaustion and of wine.” .....Read Quest of Olympias....Sivkishen, Author