Efeksion

EFEKSION - E FE KSI ON

- E - is,

- FE - the strongest,

- KSI (KSE the god of light) - the most illuminated,

- ON - he,

EFEKSION (EFEXION) - He is the strongest and brightest.

  EFEXION ☼ THE BEST FRIEND OF VASILEON MAKEDONON ALEXANDROY

Alexandroy and Efexion

        Alexandroy he had many friends, but of all he was dearest to him Efexion

                  After the battle of Is, when they went to visit the captive family of the great ruler Darias, the ruler mother Sisigambis mistakenly knelt down to pray to Efexion for her lives, as he was taller and both were young and wore almost the same clothes. When she realized her mistake, she asked Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy to forgive her, but Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy said:

'' YOU ARE NOT WRONG MOTHER AND HE IS ALEXANDROY ''.

324 BC took as his wife Dripetis, daughter of the great ruler Darias, and also Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy married Darias' daughter Stateira, so the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy considering that his children would be related. Until that moment, Efexion is not related to any woman or man. Dripetis is said to have fallen in love with Efexion and mourned him even after his death, when and after four months Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy came to visit her.

                In the spring of 324 B.C. Efexion left Suca and sent the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy to Ecbatana. Winter arrived there. During the games and festival, Efexion fell down with an illness and a fever. After seven days, the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy canceled the games because Efexion was seriously ill and the end had not yet come. Ho because Efexion was young and a great warrior did not listen to his doctor, who at that time went to the theater.

Efexion had a good breakfast eating chicken and drinking wine, then fell ill and died. (He is obviously poisoned).

The Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy lost control from difficulty. He ordered the horses' tails to be cut off, the decorations of the houses to be demolished, he banned music and all kinds of parties in the district..

He fell on top of his friend's decomposing body and for a whole day they could not remove him from his friend's dead body. At the end of force, his friends removed him from the dead body.

He wanted to execute the doctor Glaukius because he did not heal him. He ordered the temple of Asclepias at Ecbatena to fall to the ground and broke the cup from his own head.

Then a rebel tribe called the Coseans were massacred, as a gift from the gods to the spirit of Efexion. The Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy did not take care of his body and its needs for a long time out of pity for his friend.

He ordered a period of mourning in MAKEDONON VASILEONDON MAKEDONIA (KINGDOM OF KINGDOMS - STATE OF LORD - MAKEDONIA ). Named a unit of the cavalry - Efexion.

He sent messengers to Egypt to the prophet of Shiva to pray to Amun so that Efexion would declare everything to be God. The answer was that Efexion could be worshiped as a God. The Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy was pleasantly pleased and ordered that Efexion be worshiped from that day on. He also built temples in honor of Efexion. 

To Efexion was given a lavish funeral worth 10,000 - 12,000 gold talents. Personally the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy sent the plundering procession to Vavylon.

On the day of the burial the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy ordered the holy fire in the temple to be extinguished,.. an honor only for great rulers.

The Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy made funeral games in honor of Efexion, where 3,000 participants took part. The Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy considered spending 10,000 talents to decorate the tomb of Efexion, for that work he commissioned Stasicratas because that artist was famous and innovative.

 

The tombstone should have been decorated:

- There is the first row with 240 ships with golden sails, with fugures and red flags between them.
- There is a second row of torches with snakes on the base, golden horns in the middle and at the top, fires intercepted by eagles.
- There was a hunting scene in the third row. 
- There is the fourth fight of centaurs, all made in gold.
- On the fifth and the one with gold, there were lions and bulls.
- There is the sixth Makedonians in battle with Persians.
- And the seventh and last one had sculptures of mermaids.

It is believed that the tombstone was not covered.

On the day of the burial the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy ordered the holy fire in the temple to be extinguished,.. an honor only for great rulers.

  EFEXION

  Efexion

      Efexion son of Amyntor. The exact date of birth of Efexion is unknown. Many chroniclers also said that they were peers with the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy. 343 BC he was moved to the Makedonian court where he met the prince Alexandroy. He studied together with the prince Alexandroy at Aristotle, but it is not known for sure that he also attended classes in Madze. It is said that mail was found between Efexion and Aristotle, but today those letters are no longer there.

A few years later Efexion was in oblivion as several friends of prince Alexandroy himself were sent into exile due to the clash with Pixadr. Among those exiled by Vasileos Makedonon Philippoy were Ptolemaioy, Nearhas, Harpal, Erogoy and Leomedon.The reason why he is not in that list is that they were older friends of the prince Alexandroy from an earlier date. Erigoj was 24 years old and was older than Prince Alexander. Efexion was a peer of the prince Alexandroy.

Efexion's first battle was against the Thracians and the Scythians, while Prince Alexander was overseer of Makedonia, led by Vasileos Makedonon Philippoy on the river Istar (Danube) in 342 BC. and the Battle of Aroneia 338 BC.. When he was young he was not mentioned, but after that battle on Istar (Danube) he was mentioned until he died. In the beginning, he was also engaged in important diplomatic missions, sometimes also technical ones. The first is after the battle of Ic 333 BC. When the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy captured Sidonion, Efexion was appointed to choose a strapia (governor) of that territory.

Efexion listened to a local advice and took a noble from the ruling family, but who was very honest, named Abdalonim, who had a very good future career. After 332 BC. the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy placed him in command of his fleet, whose task it was to send him by sea to Gaza. The task was not easy, because the fleet was composed of various nations. In Gaza, during the siege, the machines had to be unloaded, and the terrain was very difficult.

Plutarch writes: 

''At that moment the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy received news from Adzana that the Adzaians and Spartans had revolted. The Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy wrote to him about it. So Efexion was sent to carry out a reconnaissance. Efexion meets with Aristo to make peace between the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy and Demosthenes and spartan avahto Agis 3-th. They were well inclined to this idea and temporarily Efexion saved the Makedonian interests in the city states in the Peninsula of Dze and the small peninsula of Azenika..''

It is said that Efexion led the Makedonian phalanx into Egypt and built a bridge over the Euphratas River. Although he was overseen from the other side by Madzae who was appointed by the great ruler Darias. Mazae commanded the Persian army from the right at the Battle of Ara Bellas and later became the Makedonian strapia of Vavilon. 

In the battle of Ara Bellas (Galgamela) Efexsion was the commander of the bodyguards of the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy, which was not a ruling unit but WAS OBLIGED TO PROTECT THE RULER IN BATTLE paid by the people of Makedonia. Until that time, Klitas was in charge. In that battle, Efexion was wounded by an arrow in the arm. After the battle he encouraged the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy in reconciling with the Persians.

One evening in Vavilon, the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy observed how a Persian noblewoman was being forced to dance. The next day the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy ordered Efexion to bring all the prisoners, Persian nobles to the royal chambers and he himself Efexion to see to it.

Efexion, Krateras and Koen tormented Philotas when he tried to poison the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy. After the execution (punishment) of Philotas in 330 BC., Efexion was appointed commander of the cavalry along with Klitas, a previous assignment of Philotas. With that, he changed his old habits and started using new military tactics, such as against the Scythians. 328 BC the army attacked Balkh in five columns between the canyons and rivers of the Tenai and Oxe taking Sogdiana, Efexion ordered one column to make a city at Marakanda.

In the spring of 327 BC. The Makedonian phalanx in the campaign in Lower India split up, one with the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy in the north, and the other with Efexion and Berdika at the Khyber Pass. The terrain was not known, so orders were given according to the terrain. Very often in today's Arahosia (Afghanistan) the forces of the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy were divided, one is when the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy gave the order to Efexion together with Krateras with one strong unit to subdue the Bactrian rebels.

The Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy chose Efexion because he enjoyed great trust in him and he did everything without objection. When they reached the Indas he was ordered to build ships to cross the river in 30 days, Efexion built them five days early.

At the Battle of the Indus (against Poras in Hidaspas) in 326 BC, Efexion led a good part of the Makedonian cavalry. On his return, he was awarded half of the elite army and 200 elephants.

      Part of the army including the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy traveled in ships that were made under the command of Efexion. Along the way the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy was wounded in a fight with a tribe. And here the duty of order and peace was taken by Efexion. There he also organized the creation of a fleet, a harbor and a fort in Patala.

Efexion was in command at Patala, and the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy continued. When he joined him in Rhambahia he projected a city in that zone.

Efexion crossed the Gedrosian desert with the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy sharing the hardships.

In Suca Efexion he was decorated for his valor and became the DEPUTY OF VASILEON MAKEDONON ALEXANDROY IN BATTLE.

'' To Ephexion was given a lavish funeral worth 10,000 - 12,000 gold talents. Personally the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy sent the plundering procession to Vavylon.

On the day of the burial the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy ordered the holy fire in the temple to be extinguished,.. an honor only for great rulers.

The Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy made funeral games in honor of Ephexion, where 3,000 participants took part. The Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy considered spending 10,000 talents to decorate the tomb of Ephexion, for that work he commissioned Stasicratas because that artist was famous and innovative.

Dripetti his wife fell in love with Ephexion and mourned him even after his death, when and after four months when the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy came to visit her.

'' In fact, the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy sent orders to Cleomenas of Naucratas to build two tombs of great scale and of extraordinary splendor at Ephexion, one in the Egyptian Alexandreion and the other on the island of Pharos (the beam - far - pharaoh, not Danai's word). This was so close to his heart that he was said to have promised Cleomenas a general pardon for past and future wrongs if he would carry out the mandate. But the death of the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy, immediately afterwards stopped the execution.

Ptolemaioy, the new strspia, on whom Cleomenas relied, had no understanding of the construction of tombs. The Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy intended these monuments to be built in the Egyptian Alexandreion, indicating that, according to his plans, this city was to play a special role in his world god-state - VASILEONDON MAKEDONIA'',...

The Lighthouse - Faros of Alexandreion, actually the "Monument of Ephexion", one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world, was later destroyed by an earthquake.

- There is no doubt that the monument of Ephexion was built on the island of Pharos, the "Eternal Monument" was the lighthouse - "pharos-beam" in Egyptian, "eFe - Ksi - on" - the strongest and the brightest - Efeksion - Ephexion, which faithfully reflects and symbolizes the name of the faithful friend.

Efeksion

EFEKSION - E FE KSI ON

- E - is,

- FE - the strongest,

- KSI (KSE the god of light) - the most illuminated,

- ON - he,

EFEKSION - He is the strongest and brightest.

,... '' After the message from Ammon arrived, the actual burial of Ephexion took place in Vavylon. The Vasileos Makedonon Alexandroy ordered general mourning throughout the country. Ephexion was no longer dead but a hero, and the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy was the first to offer a sacrifice befitting a hero.

A very difficult problem arose over the great monument after the death of Ephexion that Vasileos Makedonon Alexandroy ordered to be built in his honor in Vavylon. The describer Diodorus gives fantastic data, which are based on truths. The work was entrusted to the architect Deinocrates, who sketched the plans for an Egyptian Alexandreion.

Egyptian (AG - EY) Alexandreion

On the surface of a square stadium, the monument was supposed to rise high over 130 cubits, on five floors, narrowing upwards, the city grew into a large, cultural and scientific center in antiquity, one can say one of the most civilized, until it fell under Roman rule. occupation, from when the decadence of the city begins.

The outer walls of the floors were to be magnificently decorated. On the lower outer side were to be placed 240 gilded prows of fifty large types of ships, and on them were to be placed kneeling archers and other figures 4-5 cubits in height. On the second floor there were to be huge torches (15 cubits high), decorated with golden crowns and soaring eagles watched by snakes below. There was supposed to be a hunting scene around the third floor; around the fourth – gilded satyrs (centaurs); around the fifth lions and bulls in succession.

The Tower of Vavylon

Above all, the building was supposed to end with ancient Makedonian and "barbarian" weapons, certainly not, as Diodorus thought, to signify victory and defeat, but to symbolize the merging of the ancient Makedonians and Persians into one army, which the ruler was then supposed to commands. Undoubtedly, the barbarian weapons were Persian. On top were to stand giant mermaids, hollowed out from the inside to house singers who could not be seen, who were to sing songs from within'',.,..

I have to clarify again, this is what the real Makedonians were like:

- ''Face your enemy, face to face.. with weapons equal... and after you defeat him, respect him and make him your friend, on the contrary, YOU ARE NOT MAKEDONIAN'' - The Makedonian proverb, which many Makedonians have forgotten even today.

The Makedonian ruler, the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy, gave only respect to all whom he ruled, a virtue that rarely any other ruler can identify with.

'',... The cost of this fabulous and beautiful building ranged from 10,000 to 12,000 talents. It is interesting to see how in this last artistic design of the epoch of the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy the ideas of ancient Makedonian and oriental art were mixed. Thus, the Vavylonian ziggurats, although they did not step into a building like this, pursued such plans, no doubt influencing the form of this building.

All authors, including Arrian, call this structure a pyre, and it is assumed that it was burned with the corpse of Ephexion. But this could not be true, nor is it confirmed by Diodorus, to whom we owe the above-mentioned description. In fact, as we learn from the aforementioned notes, the building was still unfinished when the Vasileos Makedonon Alexandroy died.

How can it be understood that that gigantic building, with its wealth of various artistic values, was built in a few months, in the time between the death of Ephexion and the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy? It was never completed: after the death of the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy by order of the council of the army its construction was stopped forever.

Vavylon fantasy, the city was spectacular, the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy was delighted with the city, as every big city had positive sides, but also its own "debauchery"''

According to the sources, Justin and Plutarch are probably right when they call this monument a pyre, not a tomb. the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy had the idea of making a lasting monument to his venerable friend, which in size and value would be on a par with the colossal buildings of Vavylon, and in the heart of Adzeia (Asia) should for ever radiate the glory of Ephexion, as what would the monument in Egypt's Alexandreion do for the Western world. The ornamentation and the external appearance were supposed to show the relationship of Ephexion with the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy.

In the hunting scene there is obviously an illusion of the courtly pursuit of the chase. The prows of the ships and the ancient Makedonian and Persian arms indicate that Ephexion was a faithful assistant to the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy in his naval plans and in his policy of annexation. These, in fact, were the ideas that later preoccupied the Makedonian ruler.

The decision on the period of mourning and festivities in honor of the new hero was immediately followed by the final preparations for the start of the Arab campaign, which was to begin in a few days. Meanwhile, the Vasileon Makedonon Alexandroy offered sacrifices for the successful outcome of the campaign, other sacrifices were addressed to the prophets, and then with his friends organized a celebration that lasted all night'',....

 

 

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