Chapter 32: The contradiction is gone
In mythology, Hercules was jealous of Hera, the queen of heaven, as the only queen of Zeus's previous wives, the goddess Hera has authority second only to Zeus in the mythology of Olypis, and she wants to destroy Hercules several times, which has long been known to everyone in Greece in mythology and legend.
The twelve great trials of Hercules were also carried out by Hercules as a last resort in order to escape Hera's persecution, because according to the oracle, as long as Hercules completed the twelve trials, Hera would not trouble him, and this oracle was known to everyone in Greece, so the contradiction between Hercules and Hera was also known to the world.
Therefore, it is only fitting to throw the earth-shattering cauldron of Hera's disappearance to Hercules in a panic.
General Scott thought so, and King Curtis thought so, the thief-minded king would not dare to go to Hera's temple to ask for Hera's oracle, and if the priest of the temple thought that the old king would say an oracle unfavorable to him, then he would be directly destroyed by the wrath of the people, even Athens, an ally of Thrace, could not help him.
What city-state would dare to face the wrath of a god, especially the goddess Hera, who was known for her jealousy.
Zeus had no opinion in the face of Hera's persecution of his illegitimate son Hercules, how could Curtis as a king dare to have an opinion, thinking of this, King Curtis's originally unstable body stood up at this time without anyone's support, he looked at the demigod hero with a downward attitude, and said proudly, "Kneel, lay down your weapons, and confess to the great queen Hera, maybe the goddess will choose to forgive you."
King Cortis's arrogant attitude stunned everyone, Hercules picked up his mace, and his team subconsciously picked up their weapons and prepared to fight, and the Thracian soldiers were already walking over with spears and shields.
Even the recruits who had been recruited urgently, even though they had no previous combat training and could not use weapons, were outnumbered and armed, and under the command of General Scott of Thrace, they surrounded Hercules in an orderly manner.
"Father, you can't do this, Hercules was invited by me from Macedonia to fight against the tyrant Resos, if you kill him here, then whoever will deal with the tyrant Resos, we will be destroyed by Resos, you can't do this."
Princess El Ginia came to her father, King Curtis, with her dress on her shoulder, to stop this pointless fight, and she reminded her father with anxious eyes that Hercules should be her ally, not an enemy, and that there was no real winner in this battle.
"Of course I know, and I've heard the legend of the demigod heroes, but I know even better, that if we don't destroy Resos, we'll die in a month or two, but if we don't kill Hercules now, we'll be killed by the angry people in less than two days."
King Curtis threw his daughter, Princess Elginia, to the ground, and as a politician who dared to murder the former king and ascend to the throne as a tyrant, he knew exactly where his deadliest danger was.
In the political tradition of Greece, the tyrant who ascends to the throne of power in an illegal way and against the tradition is not legally qualified, but as long as you can stabilize the domestic form, then the Greek countries will consider you to be the legitimate monarch.
There is a saying that both good kings and bad kings are God's choice, the former is God's gift to the people, and the latter is God's punishment to the people.
This is the divine right of the king, and the thunder, rain and dew are all the truth of the king's grace.
In Greek mythology, whether it is legal or illegal, traditional or non-traditional, it is a tyrant, it represents the will of God, and his ascension to the throne means that the goddess Hera acquiesced to his accession to the throne.
This is the source of law from which he and all Greek tyrant monarchs came to power, and if it was punctured, for example, the goddess Hera left Thrace and abandoned the Thracian kingdom and the Thracian people, then he must have died a terrible death.
"Dear King Kotis, Hera's departure may not be due to the arrival of Hercules, we should go and ask for the oracle of the goddess Hera, even if
It's the oracle of Delphi. We don't know the true purpose of the oracle now, and who knows what the goddess Hera really thought. Know that the one standing before you is the enemy of Hera, but he is also the son of Zeus."
Amphiatsus shouted at King Kotis with his spear in his hand, offering his own proposal, no one wanted to accept a lose-lose situation, especially in front of a group of recruits, and there was no problem in escorting Hercules to escape alone.
"Hera is the wife of Zeus, the only queen of heaven, it doesn't matter how Hera persecuted Hercules, the illegitimate son, but he has always been the son of Zeus, you mortal want to encroach on the revenge of Hera, then you must know that although you have pleased Hera, are you not afraid of offending Zeus?"
The words of Amphiatus made King Curtis calm down instantly, Hera, the queen of heaven, is certainly the patron saint of Thrace, but the most powerful of the many Greek city-states has always been Zeus.
Whether it was the four Panhellenic games, including the ancient Olympic Games, or about natural disasters and wars, the Greeks had the habit of asking the temple for oracles, and a system was formed in the interaction between the city-states.
The rulers of the Greek city-states wanted accurate and authentic oracles, but they feared that the contents of the oracles would be unfavorable to them; They often bribed priestesses to obtain powerful prophecies about themselves.
This led to the problem of a conflict between Athens and Thrace, and when the conflict was stalemate, both sides decided to consult the oracle.
When the king of Athens consulted the oracle of Athena, and the king of Thrace consulted the oracle of Hera, if the content or requirements of the two oracles coincided, then there was nothing to say, just do it, but if there was a slight disagreement, then it could also be agreed by coordination, such as bribing the priest to divinate again, but if it was completely the opposite.
Things are not very good, it is not so good that the patron goddess of Thrace is Hera, Hera is the queen of heaven, the goddess Hera has a higher status on Mount Olympus than Athena, and she is Athena's stepmother, so you should listen to Hera.
There is no reason for this, unless the goddess Athena herself shows up and says that she wants to listen to Hera, the final result is still either to fight or to fight.
King Curtis found himself in a predicament, because he was plotting to usurp the throne, and people thought that there were many people in the former king, so he did not trust the temple priests of his country, for fear that they would have a righteous priest who did not love money, so that he could not control the direction of the oracle.
At the same time, he was afraid, as Amphiass said, that pleasing Hera and offending Zeus would not have the same result.
Zeus and Hera had a conflict, and he Kotis intervened, and the contradiction was gone, and he Kotis was the contradiction.
For a while, my back was cold, and the arrogance that I had shown in the name of pleasing the goddess Hera disappeared.