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182 lam thy father . .. ITassumed my form as a ram, Lord of Mendes, and begot thee inside thy august mother. And a thousand years later, as we have mentioned, Alexan- der the Great heard the rumors of his semidivine ancestry, conceived when his mother had a Divine Encounter in her bedchamber with the god Amon. Figure 57 Figure 58 DIVINE ENCOUNTERS