Chapter 007: Atlantic and the Mermaid
Atlantic-Ocean, known as Oceamus-Atlanticus in ancient times, according to the book "Real World History", this S-shaped ocean is the residence of Atlas, the son of Iapetus, one of the twelve Greek titan gods, hence the name, but Atlas only lived in the Atlantic, and later he failed to resist Zeus, and was punished to the westernmost point of the world to hold his head and hands against the sky, so his god name is actually the god of the sky.
As for the original ruler of the Atlantic, the god of the sea, Potos, and the founder of Atlantis, the emperor of the sea, the relationship between the two is somewhat complicated, or should it be said that the relationship between all the members of the Greek god family is quite complicated.
According to the history of the Greek gods, there was the god of chaos Kaos, and then there were five great creation gods - Gaia, the mother of the earth, Tartarus, the god of the abyss of hell, Orepus, the god of darkness, Niks, the goddess of night, and Eros, the goddess of love, and then Gaia, the mother of the earth, created the god of the sky, Ouranos, the god of the sea, Pontus, and the god of the mountains, all of which together formed the Greek gods of the Golden Age.
When the god of love was born, the Greek gods began to unite, and then Gaia, the mother of the earth, and Ouranos, the god of the sky, gave birth to twelve titan gods, three cyclops and three hundred-armed giants, and then the mother earth and the god of the sea Pontus gave birth to five sea gods, and the goddess of the night, Nix, in addition to giving birth to three gods with the dark god Orepus, also gave birth to a large number of gods alone.
At this time, the king of the gods of the Greek gods was Ouranos, the god of the sky, who lay on the body of Gaia, the mother of the earth, and completely overlapped with her, so that all his children were bound in Gaia's body, and when Gaia finally couldn't bear it anymore. The youngest titan god Kronos promised to help his mother, and in the end, Kronos used the scimitar made by his mother to cut off his father's sexual organs, and since then "heaven" and "earth" have been separated, and the Greek gods have entered the Silver Age.
Kronos rescued eleven older siblings and was elected the new god-king by them, but Ouranos was separated from his mother. The curse Cronos was destined to be overthrown by his own children, just like his father, which caused Kronos to panic, and he finally made a cruel decision: to eat his own children.
Kronos's sister, Rhea, the goddess of time, bore him five children - Hestia, Hades, Poseidon, Demeter, and Hera, all of whom were swallowed by their father when they were born, much to Rhea's heartbreak, so after she gave birth to her sixth child, Zeus, she gave Zeus to the eucalyptus fairy to raise. He wrapped a stone in Brie and handed it to Kronos, who swallowed it without looking.
When Zeus grew up, he learned of his origins and was determined to save his siblings. He married his uncle, Okeanos, the god of the ocean, and his cousin, Mettis, the goddess of wisdom, and his cousin, the goddess of wisdom, and he followed his wife's plan to lure his father into taking vomiting medicine, and Kronos kept vomiting after taking the medicine, and all the children who swallowed him vomited out.
Then Zeus contacted his brothers. A war was waged to overthrow Kronos, and the war was protracted. Later, Zeus followed the advice of Atlas's brother Prometheus and went to save the imprisoned Cyclops and the Hundred-armed Giants. In return for this kindness, the Cyclops gave Zeus Lightning, the Poseidon Trident, and the Hades Invisible Helmet; The hundred-armed giants fought valiantly on the battlefield.
In the end, Cronos's side was defeated, and Zeus imprisoned his father and the Titans who supported his father in a prison in the underworld. The three brothers then took Prometheus' proposal to divide the world by lot, Zeus gained the heavenly realm and became the third god-king, Hades deigned to the underworld, and Poseidon got all the seas, rivers and lakes.
The Greek gods entered the Bronze Age. It is the most widely known era, and at the same time the last one.
Since the two god-king successions did not affect the sea god lineage, many sea gods still respect the sea god Pontus as the leader, but Poseidon's queen Amphitrite's father Nereus is the eldest son of Pontus and Gaia, so Poseidon, a descendant of the gods, can successfully exercise the power of the sea king.
Legend has it that when Poseidon saw the daughters of Nereus, the god of the sea, dancing on the shores of Naxos, he was instantly captivated by the beauty of one of the sea fairies, Amphitrite, and took her back to his temple and took her as his wife.
Poseidon and his queen Amphitrice had three children, the eldest of whom Triton was the ancestor of the merfolk clan, who later chose a large continental slope west of the Strait of Gibraltar as a gathering place for the merfolk clan.
Because of the blood of the gods, the original mermaid clan could easily turn their fish tail into human-like legs after coming ashore, but this completely different way of moving, when walking at the beginning, every step will bring great pain to the mermaid, and the mermaid's voice in the air is not as good as in the water, so not many mermaids like to leave the water.
However, the status of the mermaid clan was not guaranteed because Triton was the eldest son of Poseidon, because Poseidon was as merciful as his brother Zeus, and he had too many heirs, among which there were naturally some unscrupulous people, and then the merfolk clan suffered a war that was almost wiped out, and finally the merfolk clan worked together to float a whole continental slope around the gathering place directly to the sea, and finally all the attacking enemies were sunburned.
Although the merfolk were victorious, there were too few surviving people, and in the end the merfolk decided not to return to the sea for the time being, so as not to be killed by some guys, and there were only ten male members left in the mermaid royal clan at that time, and the oldest was just an adult, because his name was Atlas, so the humans on land called this mermaid country "Atlantis" (Atlantis).
Atlantis stayed in the sea west of the Strait of Gibraltar for a long time, during which the merfolk and humans frequently communicated, but because the mermaids had to be in the water to reproduce, so the secret of Atlantis was finally discovered by humans, and the merfolk collectively prayed to Poseidon in order to avoid another catastrophe, and offered super sumptuous sacrifices, and Poseidon moved Atlantis to the bottom of the southwest of Bermuda in response to their request.
In order for the merfolk to thrive in peace, the merfolk decided to lay a lot of defenses around their homeland, and they chose the main island of Bermuda, the Florida Peninsula in North America, and the island of Puerto Rico in the east of the Greater Antilles as nodes for the defense of the barrier, and did their best to place an extremely powerful barrier on three sides at the edge of this triangle about 2,000 kilometers long.
This three-sided enchantment allowed the merfolk to spend thousands of years peacefully, even when the Greek gods collectively fell, they were not violated in the slightest, even if the mermaids later removed the three-sided enchantment when Atlantis moved from this place, but the remnants of the enchantment still made various natural accidents frequent in this triangle, and as a result, it became the mysterious Bermuda Devil's Triangle.
After the fall of the Greek gods, the godhead fragments of the gods were robbed, but the Poseidon line was not as "popular" as the Celestial God line, so many godhead fragments eventually fell into the hands of various sea tribes, which made the mermaid clan in a corner of the country even more afraid to leave the Bermuda Triangle easily, until the mermaid princess Ruona recklessly fused a small piece of the godhead fragment of Pontos in order to find her twin sister who was swept away by the hurricane.
As the ancestor of the Poseidon line, Pontus's Godhead fragment, even if it is a small piece, the power contained in it can still easily destroy the weak existence that is too close to it, so after his fall, his Godhead fragment has become a tasteless and regrettable "chicken rib" for all races.
Fortunately, Ruona's stupid audacity eventually survived and became the strongest existence of the merfolk and the entire sea, and finally established a mermaid empire that dominated all the sea tribes, and Atlantis also left the Bermuda Triangle and relocated to the center of the Atlantic.
Although since Ruona's death, the merfolk have never had a stronger person comparable to them, but the status of the merfolk has been difficult to shake, and Atlantis has never been attacked again.
However, in order to avoid the tribe being besieged again, the wise man of the merfolk took the initiative to put down his body and communicate with other sea tribes on an equal footing, and in the end, most of the sea tribes chose to accept the rule of the merfolk tribe.
As for the remaining small part, they either hid in some harsh environment or extremely remote corners, or migrated to the North Pacific, because the power of the Mermaid Empire was blocked by two continents and could not directly touch the hinterland of the Pacific Ocean.
And on the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean, that country with a long history, although they lived there, they did not pay much attention to the sea area it owned, but the momentum they inadvertently exuded, but after the first contact with the mermaid queen Ruona, the peak of the mermaid queen, ordered that her people should never be rude and offended.
Although the national map of the Mermaid Empire only has the North Pacific Ocean and has not become a territory, after hundreds of years of changes, the scope of direct control of the mermaid clan has shrunk again, and it is difficult to see the traces of ordinary merfolk in the northern Indian Ocean and the eastern part of the Arctic Ocean, but the Atlantic Ocean is still firmly controlled by the mermaids. (To be continued.) )