Darius and the Immortals (The Battle of Marathon) 25x22

Divine Ahura Mazda;as the night follows the day … Let me start my life anew; and as the shore scoured by the tide; let me be cleansed, as the fire becomes the sun… let me be born again.

490 BC, at the night of the Comet, before his most trusted and elite force The Mighty Immortals, Darius the Great paid homage to his beloved Grandfather, Cyrus the Great... at his resting place in Pasargadae. He held-up the departed kings sword as a symbol of freedom and retribution, screaming for vengeance to the gods of underworld, crying; he may never rest until the day that his honor is restored, assuring his ancestors that he shall not forget the words carved on his Forefather's tomb as they reverberate in his ears till eternity; "I am Cyrus, who founded the empire of the Persians.Grudge me not therefore, this little earth that covers my body."

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