Galerius is another Roman emperor from the same Illyrian stable as Diocletian, Maximian and Constantius I. Built like a thug, Galerius was illiterate and remained one all his life. His mother Romula was head screecher with a local mystery cult and claimed Hercules had caught her in the bushes and 'made' Galerius. From his mother Galerius inherited an extreme aversion of the written word would later make him deeply suspicious of any 'book fetish' cult. Within that ambit he would include Christianity, Judiasm and the relatively new Manichaen religions which were all 'wordy' mumbo-jumbo to Galerius.