Chapter 16: The Birth of Hermes
On Mount Olympus, another banquet of the gods was held here, and Zeus, who was busy outside all day, also appeared in the temple of the gods and beckoned the gods to rejoice with him.
He is indeed worthy of rejoicing, after Ares, the god of war, he has another child who was born with the sense of heaven and earth. He took the two- or three-year-old child in his arms and announced his name, Hermes, to the gods.
Hermes is the crystallization of Zeus and Maia, the goddess of wind and rain, and his mother, Maia, is the daughter of the second Titan god Atlas.
Atlas and Preogne had seven daughters, all of whom were mountain nymphs called Sister Pleades, the eldest of whom was Mea. Their sisters and the three Hesperides sisters, who helped Hera guard the golden apple, are half-sisters, and they both have no weak divine powers.
Hermes, who had just been born as a child sleeping in a cradle, once broke free from his swaddling clothes and slipped out of the cave to the valley of Pieria, where he killed two of Apollo's oxen, and in order not to leave a trace, he tied all the oxen to the reeds and branches, and then put on the straw sandals of adults, and drove the cattle in the opposite direction.
As he hurried through Boeotia, he met an old man who was planting grapes, who asked him not to tell anyone else that he had seen him, and left. But others said that he was not at ease again, so he turned into another appearance and went to the old man, and asked him if he had seen a child driving cattle past, and the old man told him where the child was, and Hermes was very angry, and turned the old man to stone.
Then he went back to the forest, and continued to drive the oxen forward, and when he reached Pylos, he chose two oxen to kill, and hid the others in the cave, and he went back to his mother's place and climbed into the cradle. But when his mother found out about his actions, she rebuked him for being too reckless, and feared that Apollo would take revenge on them.
Sure enough, when Apollo found out that his cattle had been stolen, he found Hermes, the cattle thief, and Zeus ordered Hermes to return the herd. When Apollo pulled his ox out of the cave, Hermes was sitting on the stone at the mouth of the cave and playing the harp, and the sound of the harp made Apollo very intoxicated, and he remembered his younger brother Adros, who was also so eccentric when he was a child.
In the end, as the most literary young man among the gods, Apollo even agreed to give the cattle to Hermes, but the price was only the harp in his hand, and Hermes finally got the cattle.
You must know that these cows were sacrificed to him by one of Adros' favorite temples, and even if they were not used by themselves, they were rarely given to others.
During the feast, the young Hermes suddenly stood up and said that he was going to give a gift to the god-king queen of Olympus, much to Zeus's surprise. He had never received a gift from a child, so he happily said, "If your gift satisfies me, I promise you to be the god of Olympus." ”
The young and lovely Hermes covered his mouth and snickered, and from a cloth bag he carried with him, he took out a spear, which flashed with the breath of thunder and lightning, which was Zeus's lightning spear, an artifact made for him by the cyclops during the Battle of Titan.
Zeus was shocked that his spear, which he had never left his side, could be stolen by the young Hermes, and then he was overjoyed, lamenting that Olympus would have one more messenger to spread his glory.
"Well, good ability, from this day onwards, you will be my messenger, deliver news for me, and when you grow up in the future, I will give you other priesthoods. ”
Now that Hermes was still young, Zeus was not sure what laws he could correspond to, so he could only temporarily let him act as his messenger to facilitate his own teaching. As for the original messenger Aerys, Zeus had long planned to make her a god and messenger of Hera.
Then, Zeus smiled again: "I don't know what gift you have prepared for Hera?" Hera next to her didn't say a word, but he was also curious about what this lucky boy could give himself.
At this time, Hermes took out a small gray bottle, and he didn't know what it was. He handed the bottle to Hera and said coldly, "Now it's back to its rightful owner." ”
Ever since Hermes took out the vial, Zeus's face changed, and Hera was even more so pale, and her heart couldn't help but be nervous. She took the vial from Hermes, and gave the newborn god a complicated look, but remained silent.
"Hera, don't you think you need to give me an explanation?" Zeus's voice was full of anger, and in his hands he held the same two bottles, which he had taken from the two sisters, Aegina and Antiope. He knew very well that his three sons who could become powerful gods only became demigods, and it was the medicine in this small bottle that harmed them.
Seeing that Hera did not speak, he snatched Hera's small bottle, and then opened his eyes to carefully observe the medicine in the bottle.
After a long time, Zeus sighed: "It turned out to be the breath of the River Styx, no wonder it interrupts the divinity." Then he burst into rage, and the sound of anger spread throughout the temple of the gods, and the joy of the hall was instantly enveloped in dark clouds.
"It's you, it's you, why do you want to destroy my child's divinity?" Zeus struck his scepter on the throne violently, and in the hall, as if the end of the world, thunder exploded.
Hera also recovered at this time, and glanced at Zeus lightly: "Why? You cheated on someone behind my back and gave birth to so many illegitimate children, I was already magnanimous if I didn't kill your lover and children directly." ”
Zeus listened and roared again: "Do you know that these children are the future and hope of our Olympus?" He had to be angry, among the many gods, Olympus was not as powerful as he imagined, and only by constantly developing his power could he compete with the extraterritorial gods he had described.
And the best way to develop power is to have more blood. But his wife, Hera, ruined the divinity of these children for the sake of jealousy in her heart.
Hera said coldly: "It's your future and hope, not mine." "Zeus is happy during this time, and he is accompanied by beautiful women everywhere in the world. But what about her? A man gave birth to their daughter, Eneo, and Zeus didn't even show his face. On the contrary, those heirs in the world, he is always concerned.
Zeus shook his head, as if his face was full of pain: "You are my god, what is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine." ”
"Hmph, you also know that you have a god queen, what are these in the mortal world. Hera laughed to herself: "Mine is indeed yours, all of these." She pointed to Hephaestus Ares, and said coldly: "But yours may not be mine, I can't have so many children." ”
"It's not your children, you just destroy them, why are you so vicious. Once again, Zeus was enraged by Hera.
At this time, Hera heard Zeus say this about himself for the first time, and her heart was full of sorrow, and she also said angrily: "I am so vicious, what can I do." If you still have children in the future, I will do everything I can to destroy them. ”
"Ahh Zeus could not help but cry out, and in a fit of rage, he took out the gold chain and the anvil, bound Hera's hands with the gold chains, and bound Hera's feet with the anvil, and hung her upside down in the air in the temple of Olympus, so that the gods could see her ugly.
Hera didn't even resist at all, and let Zeus do it, just a pair of wonderful eyes, looking coldly at her husband, Zeus, the god-king of Olympus.
"If you don't dispel the thoughts in your heart, then hang in this hall for the rest of your life. Zeus looked at Hera, although he was a little unbearable, but finally said strongly.
Hera looked at him, shaking her head, and even a faint self-deprecating smile on the corner of her mouth.
At this time, the gods in the hall of the gods were already stunned, they didn't know that this meeting of kung fu had caused such a big change.
But at this time, looking at the angry god-king Zeus, and the somewhat crazy god-queen Hera, none of the gods dared to stand up and intercede for Hera.
Among the Olympian gods who dared to rebel against Zeus, the two Titans, Rhea, the goddess of time, and Themis, the lord of justice, were in the place of Mother Earth, Zeus's eldest sister Hestia was still on earth, and Hades, the king of Hades, and Poseidon, the king of the sea, were also in their respective territories. The rest of the gods, either the children of Zeus or some foreign gods, dare to rebel against the powerful god king Zeus.
Even Hera's two sons, Hephaestus, the god of fire and forging, and Ares, the god of war, did not dare to squeak. And the newborn little Hermes, although smart and talented, was also frightened by the scene he made at this time, and stayed in a corner, not daring to speak.
His original plan was to return the bottle to Hera so that she would not have any bad thoughts about herself again, and who would know that he was not the first son of Zeus to receive such treatment. There are already three children in front of him, and without his powerful divine power and luck, he has been cut off from his divinity.
Hera hung quietly in the main hall like this, and Zeus and all the gods present watched quietly, except for Zeus, who had been drinking strong wine, and none of the gods dared to make a sound.
The whole scene, just like that, was quiet and depressing, and it went on all the time.
"Yo, isn't this the queen of gods? Why are you doing a show for the gods here, it's too ugly, I think it's better to forget it. ”
A mocking voice came, and then a young god in a blue robe with black hair and wide sleeves walked in, and without saying a word, drew the long sword from his waist and cut off the gold chain that hung Hera.
Hera fell straight out of the air and came straight to the ground, and the young god hurriedly held Hera in his arms, so that her face would not hit the ground first.
It was Adros who came in, and after he came out of Hera's palace, he wanted to find Hera and thank him, after all, the artifact that restored the flesh was not something that could be obtained casually. If Adros were to come by himself, it would take at least three or five years to recover.
When he learned that Hera was attending a banquet in the Temple of the Gods, he rushed over, and as soon as he entered, he saw this scene.