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>Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great, was an ardent participant in the orgies in honor of Sabazius; hence the legend arose that Zeus himself in the form of a snake had intercourse with Olympias and that the fruit of this relationship was Alexander; there was even a story that King Philip lost an eye for peeping through the keyhole as the deity in the form of a serpent lay with his wife
>The earliest mention of a "Sarapis" occurs in the disputed death scene of Alexander (323 BCE),[4] but it is something of a mix-up: The unconnected Babylonian god Ea (Enki) was titled Šar Apsi, meaning 'king of the Apsu' or 'the watery deep',[a] and Ea as Šar Apsi seems to be the deity intended in the description of Alexander's death
>From Hadrian Augustus to Servianus the consul, greeting. The land of Egypt, the praises of which you have been recounting to me, my dear Servianus, I have found to be wholly light-minded, unstable, and blown about by every breath of rumour. There those who worship Serapis are, in fact, Christians, and those who call themselves bishops of Christ are, in fact, devotees of Serapis. There is no chief of the Jewish synagogue, no Samaritan, no Christian presbyter, who is not an astrologer, a soothsayer, or an anointer. Even the Patriarch himself, when he comes to Egypt, is forced by some to worship Serapis, by others to worship Christ. [The letter continues on to non-religious matters.]