From his "Alexander the Great: Beyond the Divide", Charles N. Pope provides an explanation which may help one to figure out why it it so hard to keep track of, and correlate, the genealogies and identities of the Elite family: "In the Gospels, Jesus is furnished with two blatantly contradictory genealogies (Matt 1:1-16; Luke 3:23-38) that claim descent from David, Abraham and ultimately from “Adam son of God.” This content parodied the claim by Alexander that he had descended from “Heracles son of Zeus” and that his mother Olympias had descended from Achilles. Ironically, Jesus was in fact a direct descendant of Alexander, Alexander a direct descendant of David (Thutmose III), and David a descendant of even more ancient “god-kings,” however not in accordance with any of the published genealogies. Nevertheless, a royal person could claim any former king or queen as their distant ancestor, and any arbitrary line of descent from that ancestor. The ruling house represented a continuous (“scarlet thread”) of natural descent from time immemorial. The actual lineage of Alexander came through the Persian royal house, and from there back to the Egyptian pharaohs. He could of course not have literally been a descendant of Heracles, as Heracles had no surviving sons to succeed him. But, that was beside the point. Heracles had been part of the royal family. In fact, Egyptologists refer to Horus the Younger, the Egyptian Heracles, as the first royal person in recorded history."