The Indo-Scythian King Azes II is mostly known by his diverse coinage.
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This is quite interesting, actually the whole idea of nativity is quaint. Wasnt Alexander called son of Zeus? Pharoahs son of Raa? Jesus was probably in similar tradition called son of God.
Alexander claimed to be son of Zeus and after conquering Egypt took over the tradition of the Pharoahs in calling himself son of Ammon. His claims to divinity were greeted with some amusement back in Greece. The Spartans wryly noting “If Alexander wants to be a god, let him be” However, the scope of his conquests made that view more common in coming years. The claim of Jesus to divinity is outside the normal Jewish tradition of prophets and who knows at what point that happened. If you look up the Arian heresy and the Council of Nicea, as late as the fourth century Christians were arguing (and killing each other) over the unprovable question of whether as son of God he was born divine or raised to the godhood.
[…] theology is suspect too.
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