Alexis story
Introduction
After the great storm of yesterday, the weather has quietened down. A pale February sun goes up upon the heathen. Big patches of the heathen are covered by still water mounds. Already everything begins to green. I, King Kallisthenes, get outside of the house. I want to have a look at the bridal chamber. Yesterday had been a hard day. There was the ceremony of the betrothal of the groom, held together with Alekis and with the emissaries of the brides parents. All guided by the priests. Today Alekis will be married together with his bride, a beautiful girl and will have to consume his marriage in the bridal chamber. This chambers dates back to the times when the Goddess was reigning. It is a cave in the rock on which our castle stands. Therefore it is very damp, cold and gloomy. Nothing for Alekis who is always so cheerful. He pleases me so much. The bridal night is very important for the royal prince. If he succeeds to make a male child, he will be accepted as the successor. Otherwise he will be killed! It was a great risk I took to marry him. But it has to be done. He has no real choice as the eldest and the crown prince. If he were second he could do what he wants. Alekis is no born warrior. He likes music, dance, modeling and painting. And I have a strong feeling that he has a penchant men! It’s all right for me. But it worries me. He is so nice. His pitch black hair, his almond shaped water blue eyes. His slender body. His great ears. Everybody must fall in love with him. Girls look at him, make him loving eyes. All his aunts adore him. But he doesn't even look at the girls. He worships boys. Especially the son of the priest. the brown eyed Hakis. He always smiles at him. Always wants to see him, to play with him. The priest complained to me. He wants to bring his flock to more moral. It is no good, that boys are going together with boys as happens down there from where these degenerated merchants come from Attica. Also its no good to get back to the religion of the earth goddess. As everybody knows as the merchants from north told us, the Gods come from the sky, they live on mount Olymp and they overthrew the Goddess which they sent back deep down into the earth. What Alekis is doing is bad, it remembers the old shrines of the Goddess. My granddad overthrew them. With the help of the grandfather of the priest. He was the Holy King. At the time when the Goddess wanted to sleep with him so that she could bear the holy child who would become the new holy king he killed her in bed with a poison. Of course he had learned that his son would supersede him, then immolate him, as all his predecessors had immolated their fathers, nearly children, to be immolated later on by their children. Only the priestess of the Earth Goddess stayed on. After the deed of my grandfather, Alekis the Great, the rules of the Earth Goddess were overthrown. The predecessor of my grandfather, his father, a wonderful boy that had tried to escape his fate but then had been raped and immolated in particularly painful way was made to the Saviour God Herakles.