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Adventure Christian Kids

Many hands make light work.🙂


There is no such thing as a small task.


Gordian may have thought this as he was being twisted, bent into an unrecognizable over sized string. A state so unrecognizable and something too complex to explain, explain away, try to explain, beg to explain.


Alexander the Great, A legend. Alexander the Great had had enough and he CUT the Gordian Knot. Legend! For sure. Legendary for sure. Inspirational even. Sounds like not the kinda guy who simply wants to be a “hanger on-er”.


As history writes, reputedly, whoever could untie the knot would be destined to rule all of Asia. Sounds great huh? May be not so great.(Wk)


Challenge offered.

Challenged accepted.

Change offered.

Change accepted.


As with many things in our busy lives, easier said than done. Keep the focus. Keep the purpose. You should be a-ok. Then.


Alexander the Great accepted the challenge in the year 333BC (before Christ ought to tell you something)…..He was challenged to untie the knot.

Instead of untangling it laboriously as expected, he dramatically cut through it with his sword, thus exercising another form of mental genius.


Of mental genius.

Alexander the Great.

Whoa. Wow. And cool.


It had been documented that Alexander was a mental genius because as they say nowadays he “cut through the crap” But in more proper times, it was documented “he cut through a seemingly intractable problem which is solved by exercising an unexpectedly direct, novel, rule-bending, decisive and simple approach to the problem that removes the perceived constraints.


Whoa. And Wow. And cool.


Now. No recommendations here— that you run around with a pair of scissors in hand—that is undoubtedly dangerous and counter productive. Could down right poke yourself in the eye, right through the eye, right through the heart, the heart of others and cause or instigate needless and countless number of disasters.


“Turn him to any cause of policy, the Gordian Knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter” Shakespeare (snicker, snicker). A thing tied around a body part to support another body part.


We are here to support one another. Many hands make light work. And. Many hands make light work😃.


We really, really, really can learn a lot if we listen to one another.


As Alexander’s story was told, the Phrygians-an ancient- Indo-European speaking people. Ancient as in old. They were related to the Greeks and Armenians. Phrygian is an “umbrella” term to describe a vast ethno-cultural complex located mainly in central areas. Not to be called a single tribe or people, because hey, in nowaday terms that may be considered discriminatory, racist, prejudice.(wk)


We have come a long way, haven’t we. Phrygia developed an advanced Bronze Age culture. the Bronze Age culture is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC (Before Christ) to 1200 BC (before christ) counting backwards.😳🫤😞


No. You knucklehead. Not talk in’ about a tanned and toned bod here😳……


Say what? I Get’cha. Confuses me too. An ancient civilization is deemed to be a part of the Bronze Age because it either produced bronze by smelting its own copper, and alloying it with tin, arsenic or other metals, or traded other items from bronze from production areas elsewhere.


So. Many. Questions. How does it related to cultural behavior in the present. In the now— don’t worry, we’ll get there. Hopefully sooner rather than later. However long it takes. May take.


Back to Akexander. Cuttin’ the darn knot.


The Phrygians are without a king. An oracle at the ancient capital of Lycia, Telmissus decreed that the next man to enter the city driving an ox-cart should become their king. A peasant farmer named Gordian drove into town on an ox-cart and was immediately declared king. (wk)


Whoa. Wow. And cool.


Out of gratitude, his son Midas (the tire guy?……) Not quite….dedicated the ox-cart to the Phrygian god Sabazios and tied it to a post with an intricate knot of cornel bark. Cornel bark is a species of shrub or small tree in the dogwood family Cornaceae native to Western Europe, Southern Europe and Southwestern Asia.(wk)


The knot was later described by Roman Historian Quintus Curtiss Rufus as comprising “several knots all so tightly entangled that it was impossible to see how they were fastened.


😳😞🤨🤭🫤


Knot funny. Not funny. Fine motors skills required in 333 BC (Before Christ) too.


The ox-cart still stood in the palace of the former kings of Phrygia at Gordium in the fourth century BC (Before Christ) when Alexander the Great arrived. At which point Phrygia had been reduced to a satrapy, or province, of the Persian empire. How sad. Reduced to a satrapy.


A satrapy is considered the following: at the local/national level, bicoastal, city state, collectorate. Wait. What? What is a collectorate? To con it he—a countrywide, a district, a green belt, ( a belt and road “initiative”., metropolitan borough, non- county, multi-county and so on and so on and so on. A northerner, a southerner. And so on and so on and so on.


An oracle had declared that any man who could unravel the elaborate knots was destined to become ruler of Asia. Alexander the Great wanted to untie the knot but struggled to do so. (wk)


He then reasoned. He then reasoned it made no difference how the knot was loosed, so he drew his sword and sliced it in half with a single stroke…..in an alternative version of the story, Alexander the Great loosed the knot by pulling the linchpin from the yoke.


I do not even know what that means. Linchpin. Yoke. That is a whole nother story. It was the way Alexander apparently pulled the yoke that was fastened, exposing the two ends that allowed him to untie the knot. Huh? I gotta review the story.


Remember. There was no instant picture, instant picture taking in 333 BC🥸. (Before Christ) And recollections and interpretations may vary. History is an awesome tool of discovery and can be an awesome outline for debatable debates. Good and honest. Face to face. Toe to toe.


Or knot to knot.☺️

Rulers be ware📏📐.







April 22, 2023 04:58

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