497 Earth, Darkness & Wisdom (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
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After some tossing, on the rocky ground with a passage to the underground ruins and a stone gate, Noah simply told Erica and Liliana about meeting Athena after he left last night, and then chasing Athena here, thus discovering these evil magicians, and coming to this ruin.
Erica and Liliana, who had learned what had happened, fell silent almost at the same time, and their eyes were full of malice as they looked at the evil magicians lying on the ground around them.
"What a gaffe." Liliana directly expressed her inner feelings.
"Although it is because of the losses caused by the duel between the two kings that the Italian Magic Society has focused most of its attention on the crater, so that they have not been able to discover the small actions of these despicable villains, but none of the Magic Associations have discovered the situation here, which is really a gaffe of the Magic Society in the whole of Italy."
"There's no way around it, Lily." Erica analyzed it rather calmly.
"After all, the current Italy is basically controlled by various magic societies in the dark, and even if there are any ruins, they have basically been discovered, who would have thought that there are still hidden ruins in such a place?"
"Or maybe someone found it but didn't dig it, right?" Noah said cool things like he didn't care about himself.
"Although they are all Italian magic associations, there are also hostile relations like your 'Bronze Black Cross' and 'Bronze Black Cross', and it is impossible for the magic associations in this country to have all one mind."
"This ruin may have been discovered by some magic society. It's just that it doesn't attract the attention of other magic associations.,So I haven't found a chance to excavate it.。 Noah glanced in the direction of the ruins.
"To put it simply. There is a magic society that has been hiding this relic because it wants to keep it alone. It is not impossible to wait for the opportunity to discover it again. ”
"As a result, it was discovered by these evil magic associations at this sensitive time period, right?" Erica sighed.
"It's not out of the question."
Hearing this, Liliana frowned without a trace, and her expression more or less revealed a trace of helplessness and irritability.
Liliana's personality is too straightforward, and it can be said that it is the most standard type of knight.
So, for these conspiracy theories and other complicated things, Liliana generally doesn't get involved in them.
Arguably. In terms of talent and talent in swordsmanship and magic, Liliana is not weaker than Erica at all.
However, the cultivation and leader-like temperament and plainness of a noble lady like socializing are not possessed by Liliana at all.
That's why Liliana was toyed with by Erica since she was a child.
Liliana can also understand the various speculations about Noah and Erica now, but it would be difficult for her to participate in the discussion.
All Liliana can do is express her feelings unabashedly.
So, Liliana said as if she was nervous.
"I didn't expect that. Even a goddess like Athena has appeared, and she is still looking for the "snake", if the lord finds the "snake", wait until the adult regains the status of the queen of the Trinity. Then even if the king is right, it is estimated that it will be nerve-wracking, right? ”
"Indeed." Erica also frowned cutely.
"If it was an ordinary Athena, it would be fine, but this Athena actually has the possibility of restoring the Trinity. That's a terrible godhead, once Athena retrieves the "snake". That's really troublesome. ”
Hearing Erica and Liliana's heartfelt troubled words, Noah was stunned. Then he reacted.
"Wait, do you know what Athena meant by 'serpent' and 'trinity'?"
Erica and Liliana nodded heavily at the same time.
"That goddess is so famous, but alas, the Athena that the king knows is a little different from this Athena." Erica said to Noah.
"Did the king think that the goddess Athena, who appeared in Greek mythology, was the goddess of wisdom and war?"
"Huh?" Noah was stunned.
"Isn't it?"
"Yes! But not all! Liliana replied.
"The king said that this Athena claimed to be a queen who once had a qiē and lost a qiē, or a triune goddess, then Athena in Greek mythology is only a part of this manifested goddess!"
"Athena, Metis, and Medusa!" Erica directly revealed the true identity of the goddess Noah had encountered.
"Trinity means that this goddess Athena has three godheads, which are not weaker than those gods at the highest level of god kings and main gods!"
———— snakes
That's the essence of Athena.
Athena has always been a goddess closely associated with the "serpent".
When it comes to "snakes", the first thing that comes to mind is Medusa, who is also closely related to Athena.
Athena and Medusa were originally the same goddess.
That's when the myth of Athena and Medusa spread to Greece and became the pre-event of Athena and Medusa in Greek mythology.
If you go back to the source, in fact, Athena is the monster of the "snake".
No, it should be said that it is the goddess of the "snake".
Not only that, but the goddess of wisdom who was Athena's mother in Greek mythology———— Metis, this goddess was originally also Athena.
Athena was not originally a goddess of Greek origin, but a goddess of the earth who was born in North Africa and worshipped throughout the Mediterranean.
At that time, Athena had many other names and images.
Metis, Medusa, Knight, Janata, Yatana, Janata, Ashera, and similar mythological beings were originally avatars of the deity "Athena", which can also be said to be Athena's sisters.
Athena is not only the goddess of the earth, but also the goddess of darkness who rules the underworld, and the goddess of wisdom who wields the wisdom of the heavens.
Because of these three attributes, Athena became the goddess of the Trinity.
This is the characteristic of Athena.
As the characteristics of the god of war, it is only added to the godhead of Athena with the changes of the times, and it is very reasonable that the god of Hades, who manages death, has something to do with the greatest disaster, that is, war, and has become the god of struggle.
Then, the key to the birth of the Athena Trinity was the "serpent".
Although creatures such as cows, sheep, and pigs are also used to symbolize the harvest of the earth, in fact, Athena's essence is the "snake", which is the key to the oldest goddess of the earth, the mother goddess of the earth.
Life goes through the stages of birth, growth, maturity, aging, and death, and the earth's grains go through four stages: growing in the spring, flourishing in the summer, bearing fruit in the fall, and withering in the winter.
Therefore, the "snake" is the symbol of the real ancient Mother Earth Goddess.
The snake that has undergone several molts and continues to hibernate and awaken is a creature that symbolizes the cycle of death and rebirth and the migration of the seasons, and the "snake" that has both the blessing of life and the death of calamity is a veritable goddess of the earth compared to the "cow", which symbolizes the harvest and love.
Thus, Athena is the goddess of the earth as well as the goddess of the serpent.
For ancient people, it was very rare to find a creature as strange and mysterious as a snake.
Constantly shedding the shell with molting, it will go into a long hibernation in winter, and then, as if resurrected from death, it will awaken in spring, and it will cross the gap between winter and spring.
This is immortality.
Therefore, Athena is also the immortal god of the underworld, a god who will bring death and belong to nature and the underworld.
This is why Athena, the goddess of the earth, is also the goddess of the underworld.
Moreover, the underworld imagined by the ancients basically existed under the dark underground, a winter world shrouded in darkness.
Thus, the time dominated by darkness, the night, is probably also a part of the underworld.
Therefore, Athena is also the goddess of darkness.
As the goddess of the earth who brings blessings, Athena is the goddess of darkness who controls the underworld, and the goddess of wisdom who controls wisdom, and the three godheads create Athena's supremacy.
This gives Athena the nature of a "snake" as well as the nature of a bird.
"Birds?" Noah couldn't help but be stunned.
"Why are the birds involved again?"
Erica and Liliana nodded to each other, revealing the true identity of the supreme goddess of the Trinity. (To be continued......)