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During this siege he had a dream in which he saw Heracles stretching out his hand to him from the wall and calling him. And many of the Tyrians dreamed that Apollo told them he was going away to Alexander, since he was displeased at what was going on in the city. Whereupon, as if the god had been a common deserter caught in the act of going over to the enemy, they encircled his colossal figure with cords and nailed it down to its pedestal, calling him an Alexandrist.

--- Plutarch: Life of Alexander

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alexander*/4.html

I fail to imagine how people at the time thought about their gods who revealed their intentions through human dreams and were embodied to act through their statues.

Maybe this is something like that, "The statue of the Commander enters, proclaiming: "The wages of sin is death". " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Juan#Act_V