Under the questioning of White Maple Valley, Medusa was silent for a moment, and finally told a secret story from Greek mythology.

Since the birth of the Greek gods, it has gone through the three mythological ages of the Golden Age, the Silver Age and the Bronze Age.

The gods of the Golden Age were the first gods, also known as the gods of creation. It is written in the genealogy that it all started with Chaos......

"Heaven and earth are not formed, and those who envelop everything and fill the universe are really one phase, and the present name is chaos. Before all things, there was Kaos, the god of chaos, and then Gaia, the mother of the earth, Tartarus, the god of the abyss of hell, Erepos, the god of darkness, Niks, the goddess of the night, and Eros, the goddess of love. The world begins here. ”

At the beginning of the formation of the world, Gaia and her son, Ouranos, the god of the sky, united and gave birth to twelve Titans, three one-eyed gods, and three hundred-armed gods, who will replace their father as the last god-king in the final tragedy of the Golden Age, and start and rule a new mythical age, the Silver Age.

Cronus, one of the twelve Titans, defeated his father and became the master, and Ouranos cursed Kronus, "You too will be overthrown by your own children, just like me." ”

So, the curse was fulfilled, and at the end of the Silver Age, Zeus, the son of Cronos, and his siblings, and many supporters founded the Olympus Protoss and fought against the Titans led by Cronus.

In the end, the Olympians won the final victory, and the defeated Titan was thrown into the abyss of hell Tartarus.

At this point, the Bronze Age arrived.

Throughout the three major mythological ages, the gods of the Golden Age and the Silver Age may have fought and killed. The theocracy has changed, but they are the simplest gods.

Such as Gaia, the Mother Earth. Simply embracing all things in the image of a mother and loving all beings. Tartarus, the god of the abyss of hell, incarnates the abyss, bears sins, and is itself pure evil. They simply control the authority given by heaven and earth.

In the Bronze Age, the creation gods and the Titans were all dormant, and the Olympus gods were prosperous, powerful, and brilliant, but they were full of murder, betrayal, seizure of power, and lustful desires.

The answer that came out of Medusa's mouth was because of the Bronze Age Olympus. It has gradually degenerated from innate gods to acquired gods, and the root cause of this change lies in the belief of human beings.

Medusa's tragedy is just a wave that has set off a few waves in this accident.

The innate gods are the authority given by heaven and earth to hold the priesthood, or in other words, they themselves are the embodiment of a certain rule between heaven and earth.

Acquired gods. Although he also holds a certain divine power between heaven and earth, it has been eroded by human beliefs, is no longer pure, and is placed in ancient Chinese mythology. They have such a name - "incense gods".

In the mythology of the flood wilderness, such as Hongjun, Sanqing, Fuxi, Nuwa and other born and sacred supernatural powers, they are the genus of innate gods.

And the status of the incense deity. Just look at the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, all the saints signed the seal of the gods in the Zixiao Palace. But no one wanted to let the disciples be on the list, and a dispute finally broke up. It can only be decided by killing.

Killing, in the final analysis, is not decided by fists, the powerful victor becomes an immortal and gains the Tao, and the world is free, the weak loser dies, and the soul enters the god list and becomes a god.

From this, the status of the incense deity can also be seen.

Greek mythology, Bronze Age.

With the birth of human beings, the Olympian gods accepted human beliefs, and all kinds of emotions and desires mixed with the power of faith inevitably eroded their divine bodies.

The creator gods, such as Gaia, the mother of the earth, directly take the earth as their body, and the hell abyss god Tartarus is also in the form of the abyss hell, and the goddess of the night, Nix, uses the night as the shell......

The second generation of Titans, they are less than the creation gods, but they are also Titans, a hundred feet tall, or only one eye, or five hundred heads, or a thousand arms, across mountains and rivers, chasing the stars and the sea.

In the generation of the Olympian gods, they may still be dazzling and radiant, but their bodies have changed from the earth, sky, and night, which symbolize the rules of heaven and earth, to a form that is more inclined to humans.

At this time, the Olympian gods had both human forms and human emotions and six desires. The difference between God and man is only that the former has eternal life and no period of death, while the latter has a limited life, birth, old age, sickness and death.

Of course, there are gains and losses, and although they are infected by human beliefs, there is no longer the purity of the innate gods, and as the footsteps of believers expand, correspondingly, their divine names and divine rights will also be expanded.

At the beginning of her birth, Athena was only the goddess of war and wisdom, and even her most important war theocracy was shared with Ares, the god of war, who symbolized military strategy and just war, while Ares controlled cruel, bloody and violent wars.

With the exchange and integration of the Greek city-states, Athena's name was propagated, and she gradually had more priesthoods, in charge of agriculture, gardening, textiles, painting, sculpture, pottery, animal husbandry, law, and so on.

And these nascent priesthoods are not easy to grasp, so Athena came up with a way to create an avatar, strip her most original war priesthood into her body, and master the nascent priesthood with the fusion of wisdom priesthood with all her heart.

This incarnation of Athena is the former goddess form of Medusa, and the predecessor of the Gorgon, the high priest of the Temple of Athena.

However, Poseidon, the god of the sea, unexpectedly learned of Athena's current situation, dissatisfied with the fact that he only controlled the divine power of the sea, and tried to spread the divine power to the land, and his greedy and covetous eyes were fixed on the war priesthood in Medusa's body.

So, at Athena's weakest moment, Poseidon, the god of the sea, forcibly broke into the temple of Athena and violently seized the god of war contained in Medusa's body.

Medusa had no priesthood of war, but she couldn't use any of it, and Athena was left with only the priesthood of wisdom, afraid of Poseidon's strength, so she retreated into the temple of Mount Olympus and let Poseidon do whatever he wanted.

Afterwards, for inexplicable reasons, the god of the sea Poseidon returned in vain, and after Athena fused the new priesthood with the wisdom priesthood, she descended to the temple and recovered the war priesthood in Medusa's body.

However, the strange thing is that the war priesthood seems to have a mark deeply engraved in Medusa's body, and even Athena, the original owner, cannot control the recovery, so Athena blames all the faults on Medusa, cursing her to turn into an ugly gorgon, and perish forever.

Years later, Athena, who was becoming more and more powerful, secretly instructed Perseus to kill Medusa, and engraved the head of the Gorgons on her statue, armor, and shield, in an indirect way to recover the last of the war cleric marks.

This is the fate entanglement between Medusa and Athena. (To be continued.) )