Don’t trust times from the Bible. There used to be lunar years and shite.
Also the creation story has days before there was earth. I.e. just a random period where stuff happened. You could justify that time flows differently for God but that’s not relevant to your point.
You might already know this, but that’s kind of the whole point of the story in the Bible. Based on what I’ve read, their trip should have, ironically, only taken 11 days. The problem was that most of them lacked faith that God could help them do what he told them to do, so instead God made them wander the wilderness so that the younger generation would learn from the additional trials of their parents that God provides a way.
Also, “40” is supposedly a number that’s meant to signify “long enough to get the job done”, which is why it rains 40 days and nights, why Jesus is in the desert for 40 days…
So they just kept following that one guy who has an abysmal sense of direction but who is also freakishly good at convincing everyone that he knows what he is doing. Then he died of old age and someone just went “hey look, the exit sign is right there”
The deification of Macedonian monarchs perhaps began with the death of Philip II, yet it was his son Alexander the Great who unambiguously claimed to be a living god. As pharaoh of the Egyptians, he was already entitled as Son of Ra and considered the living incarnation of Horus by his Egyptian subjects (a belief that the Ptolemaic successors of Alexander would foster for their own dynasty in Egypt). However, following his visit to the oracle of Didyma in 334 BC that suggested his divinity, he traveled to the Oracle of Zeus Ammon (the Greek equivalent of the Egyptian Amun-Ra) at the Siwa Oasis of the Libyan Desert in 332 BC to confirm his divine status. After the priest there convinced him that Philip II was merely his mortal father and Zeus his actual father, Alexander began styling himself as the ‘Son of Zeus.’
Alexander the Great: “I am God.”
