Alexander taming Bucephalus

You can best get up to speed by scanning chapter one of this psycho narrative as a background for grasping the present narrative.

Basically I noted in Ch 1 that the hero's birth usually has an aura about it; a supernatural quality to it or at least is clouded in mystery.

http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/birth-hero-series-11798

One of the hero's parents has got to be of alien origin. Sometimes a god or goddess, sometimes another hero; but there must be something about the hero's parent that differs from the normal suburban family.

Secondly, there must be some mystery concerning the actual birth of the hero. Whether that birth involves a Caesarean section or a magic thigh or a terrible headache; or maybe there are just mysteries concerning where and when that birth took place.

THE HERO'S EXILE

Jesus: When I write about the Christ I must underline the fact that there are different narratives relating to His birth. Just taking into account the four Gospels, only three even discuss His birth and there is no agreement among those three as to how that birth played out.

But one narrative gives us the exile phase of the hero's young childhood.

Mark tells us that Jesus and his earthly parents had to escape to Egypt. Herod after all had given the order to kill all the first born sons—a theme that resonates from writings centuries prior to the Year 1 and continued to be employed all the way to the days of Arthur.

There are many reasons why this exile was related as it was in the Gospels and one of these reasons involves the importance of the doctrine of relation back. Egypt after all was where IT all began. Moses had to spend time in Egypt following his mysterious birth. He then escaped from Egypt and returned decades later to claim his tribe.

We are told nothing about what the Christian Trio did in Egypt, how long they stayed in Egypt or who gave them the all clear to return 'home'.

King Arthur: Art had all the mystery necessary to be properly born a hero. But he had to undergo exile following his birth. In fact, Arthur was exiled to a foster family by Merlin and not told of his true blood-line. This was accomplished for the safety of Arthur the hero child so that he could be properly incubated prior to his coronation.

Oedipus: Oeddy was under a threat similar to Jesus and Moses in that he was given a death sentence prior to his birth. Daddy had been warned through an Oracle that his own son would kill him so since Daddy was a neocon king, he issued the order to have the fetus killed once it saw the light of day.

The mother of Oedipus secretly had the child taken away upon his entrance into this veil of tears and sent into exile only to come back fifteen years later and unknowingly kill papa and....well you know the rest! What went on the Oedipal family did not stay in the Oedipal family!

SUPERMAN: Clark of course had his own period of exile consisting of twelve years at his fortress of solitude where he could listen to old tapes of Marlin Brando; most probably eating a lot of fish although he could run out for some Chinese take-out in flash if he really had an itch!

King Barry: Barry had his period of exile.

I mean Hannity still thinks our Chief Executive 'grew up' in Kenya even though Seany claims he is no birther. (Hannity is just a consumate liar which makes him a good myth teller)

Following the hero's birth and abandonment by his papa (which is also a theme in many heroic epics) Barack's mommy had to find work and took her child to Indonesia for a period of years.

Although the schools within which Obama was taught have been traced to specific places and specific buildings proving that he had a 'proper' Christian Education, mystery continues to be spread in many mythological threads.

THE HERO'S IMPISH PERIOD

There seems to be a special tinge to the hero's childhood.

And there seems to be an impish element here. We are sometimes given very little information from primary sources concerning the hero's childhood but one or two events are nevertheless provided in the scrolls.

Jesus: The Gospels (which are not consistent as I underline regularly) tell us of two events in Jesus' childhood but little more.

The first involves the wedding. Mary is attempting to put on a gala (on a carpenter's salary?) for a family wedding and just as the time for the party was nigh (or in process?) she discovers that her no good husband forgot to hit the liquor store on his way home from carpentering.

Well, what is a Mother to do?

Well, Mumsy has an inkling that her Son has some special powers. His abilities had not been entirely hidden from her although we are left in the dark as to the specifics of what she knew and when she knew it.

So she requests that Jesus turn some water into wine (we are not told the vintage or chemical make-up of the vino but I am sure there was a lot of veritas in the libation).

And of course Jesus complies and even makes sure that the wine is Kosher and all the celebrants were able to get high—although not too high I would suppose!

Then there is the separate story about how Mary and Joseph Carpenter go to town for some shopping and fun (I would imagine) and the Child wanders off only to be found Rabbiing the local Rabbis.

Now the Koran (which has more potential spellings than Kadhaffi) provides an entire chapter to the Impish Jesus and it is a fun, fun read. I mean our juvenile Savior actually kills one of His little friends following some squabble but pulls out a full Lazarus just in time to save the day; along with His reputation.

Heracles. Hercules like Davy Crockett manages to kill a dangerous critter at the age of three. Naturally Heracles makes his first kill a mighty python. Davy killed a baar as recited in one of my favorite songs.

Alexander. Alex as a little boy wanders by the local rodeo and notices a miraculous steed in the corral. The professional trainers cannot do a damn thing with this most dangerous bugger.

So the Great Alexander jumps over the fence, mounts the great Bucephalus and heads out of the corral for a joy ride. This would be something akin to that James Dean movie.

Caesar. Julius refused to be outdone by the Great even though they were separated by two centuries, and he took his similar joy ride on Toes. Yeah toes because Caesar's horse actually was said to have one toe that grew above each hoof.

Seems strange but think about it. Alex's horse contained the word phalus....

The impishness of Caesar is really exposed in the episode known as Caesar and the Pirates. This is a fun fun myth with historic threads. He is twelve years or so of age and is held by the pirates for ransom—a ritual as evident in those days as in the modern world.

Julius parades on the pirate ship like he owns it. He issues regal orders. He also forces the pirates to demand more in ransom booty than they originally sought because he thought the initial sum degrading.

Julius actually leaves to get the ransom monies from a relative.

Of course, following his freedom he has to hunt down each and every pirate and kill them. Hahahaha

The truer story is that he was kidnapped and ransomed twice by the same pirates!

Which reminds me, both Alexander and Julius Caesar were leading troops by about age 12 or so. Therefore we must be reminded that the childhood of many of these heroes is cut short.

Barack Obama: Nowadays we have kind of a delayed childhood (unless of course you take into consideration these pornographic inclined stage mothers who put make up on their three year old and parade her like some stripper in a midget cabaret!)

So Barack, as a true hero, has to go through his naughty period. I mean he picks up smoking cigs, smokes a little weed, finds some solace in a little nip from time to time and...well when you look at him you kind of figure that he was not having any problems with chicks.

Barry claims to have been born again following the death of his mother and hunkers down and the rest is history.

Rush of course blames the entire success story on affirmative action but I am too tired to go on a rant about that horse at this time.

And speaking of heroes:

(End of Chapter II)