HOW COME STUDYING HISTORY CAN HELP INTERPRETATION:

EXAMPLE: AMONE CARD BY TAROT SOLA BUSCA

There have been many myths surrounding the origin of Alexander. From his mother, Olympias, who was the daughter of Neoptolemus I, he inherited his lineage to Achilles. From his father, King Philip II of Macedonia, he claimed an ancestry that descended from the legendary Heracles himself. Furthermore Olympias was said to have confided to Alexander that he was the son of the god Zeus Ammon, who had visited her in her sleep one night and begot Alexander. The Siwa Oasis is an oasis in Egypt, between the Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Sand Sea in the Western Desert, nearly 50 km (30 mi) east of the Libyan border. Alexander's visit to the Oracle of Ammon at Siwa was, and still is considered as one of the most fascinating events of his reign. According to several ancient historians, Alexander claimed towards the end of his life that he was actually the son of Ammon/Zeus and not of Philip II of Macedon. We have no way of knowing whether such a claim was ever made by Alexander himself. We do know, however, that the Greeks were immensely skeptical about these rumours, because they generally opposed the deification of a mortal during his lifetime. Alexander set off for the Oracle of Ammon at Libya in 331 B.C. Now we look at the card AMONE just by the Siwa Oasis. In the first plan we see Alexander, probably fighting in the desert to arrive in Siwa, meanwhile the oasis can be seen very clear in the second plan. Another option is to look at this warrior as the God Ammon/Zeus himself and the communion of the Egyptian and Greek cultures. IN A READING: - A personal fight to get into a place (or a situation) which is sacred for the client. - A situation involving a communion of two different cultures. - An arid situation with possibilities to reach water. - Secrets on a verge to be revealed. - Doubts or hard quests about fatherhood. - Religious quests. - Spiritual journey. (PIC: Oasis of Siwa and the Card Amone from Tarot Sola Busca) FURTHER RECOMMENDED SOURCES: http://www.greece.org/alexandria/alexander/Pages/siwa.html Nikos Kazantzakis. Alexander The Great: A Novel. Ohio University Press 1982