That the Xerxes mother and her link to Cyrus the Great was only an advantage in Ahura-Mazda's claim of Xerxes to be the divine ‘King of Kings’. Xerxes expresses this claim of divinity on a block of Limestone at persepolis “Saith Xerxes the king: had other sons of Darius there were, [but]... thus unto Ahura-Mazda was the desire, Darius my father made me the greatest after himself.” This is thus showing Xerxes grand claim that Ahura-Mazda himself gives the consent of Xerxes right, and it is something Xerxes repeats and repeats because as with every new King there is always the naysayers that believe against the new rule, so Xerxes took the god of Persian Empire and used him in propaganda to enforce his ruling because it would be spiritual suicide for them to dismiss the ruling of their own god. This propaganda of Xerxes claiming his divinity can be found on the the Old Persian text known from three slabs of stone from Persepolis and the citadel of Pasargadae stating “A great god is Ahuramazda, who created this earth, who created yonder sky, who created man, who created happiness for man, who made Xerxes king, one king of many, one lord of many.” Thus Xerxes is crushing any disbeliefs that he does not hold right to
That the Xerxes mother and her link to Cyrus the Great was only an advantage in Ahura-Mazda's claim of Xerxes to be the divine ‘King of Kings’. Xerxes expresses this claim of divinity on a block of Limestone at persepolis “Saith Xerxes the king: had other sons of Darius there were, [but]... thus unto Ahura-Mazda was the desire, Darius my father made me the greatest after himself.” This is thus showing Xerxes grand claim that Ahura-Mazda himself gives the consent of Xerxes right, and it is something Xerxes repeats and repeats because as with every new King there is always the naysayers that believe against the new rule, so Xerxes took the god of Persian Empire and used him in propaganda to enforce his ruling because it would be spiritual suicide for them to dismiss the ruling of their own god. This propaganda of Xerxes claiming his divinity can be found on the the Old Persian text known from three slabs of stone from Persepolis and the citadel of Pasargadae stating “A great god is Ahuramazda, who created this earth, who created yonder sky, who created man, who created happiness for man, who made Xerxes king, one king of many, one lord of many.” Thus Xerxes is crushing any disbeliefs that he does not hold right to