Синдромът "Александър"
The "Alexander" syndrome

Summary/Abstract: The article seeks to bring the different legendary facts about Alexander the Great into a more general framework. The two great religions, Christianity and Islam, both made Alexander one of their heroes. It was believed that Alexander marked the borders of the Christian and Islamic oekumene, building an Iron Wall (or Iron Gates) and keeping behind it the savage peoples Gog and Magog . The destruction of the Wall meant to Christians (and to Muslims as well) the end of the World and, vice versa, the beginning of the calendar's time sometimes was seen as equated with the life of Alexander (among the Turks -Christians in Xinjiang province of China). In the regions northern of Himalaya the rulers of the White Kafires ( Kafiri is a language of the third (Nuristani) sub-group of the Indo-Iranian languages) led ( after the Persian dynasty of Seleucid) their fictitious pedigree to Alexander the Great. The legend of descent from Alexander was spread among the rulers of Hunsa (Burushki), a people whose name was lent from Huns. Among the Slavs was believed that Alexander bestow Slavic lands to Slaves, issuing a Charter to guarantee the legitimacy of the territories, occupied by Slavs. The legends usually took their material shape: the Alexander's Wall was equated to the Great Chinese Wall (build by Qin Shi Huan di), the descendants of Alexander in Central Asia had documents to prove their pedigree, and the Charter to Slaves had many copies and versions.

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