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"The Great One has commissioned us with two great beings!" as the Great One was in a position even higher than Zeus, the King of the Gods, the gods and goddesses all listened intently as Hermes explained.
"There are to be two boys, one a future king and the other his most loyal and trusted companion, born six months apart. The prince will have one dark eye and one light eye, and golden hair as has never been seen before. His companion will have the bluest eyes ever seen in the history of men and his hair will be a blend of copper and bronze. The prince will be younger by six months exactly. Let's get to work!"
All the gods and goddesses set to their respective jobs. Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths melted copper, bronze, and gold for each of the infants' hair. He, along with the goddess of wisdom, Athena, was commissioned to be the elder child's source of life. Because of this, Hephastus gave his name to the child, and he became known as Hephaestion.
Apollo gave the younger child two-colored eyes, to symbolize the two attitudes that the prince would have, the dark one and the light one. Ares gave the child the love for war. Zeus and Hera gave their energies to sustain the child.
Finally each child was ready for their time on earth. The elder boy was born to an Athenian aristocrat, while the younger child was born to the king of Macedonia.
It was said that each child cried every day until they finally came together at the age of ten, as each child held one half of a heart, and were finally fulfilled and whole the day they met until the day Hephaestion died in Ecbatana in October 324 B.C. Alexander, unable to live without the one who completed him, died eight months later in 323 B.C.
To keep them together in the afterlife, they were burn on the same pyre and laid to rest alongside their heros and models in life, Achilles and Patroclus.