"So, you're really picky about your tastes, and you seem to be more receptive to blood than wine. Is this the taste of celestial beings? ”

"Pretty much."

The two of them said as usual, but Shang Luo's response was already half a beat slower, and he was talking to Apollonia about the answer.

"I don't know why, but before I drank it, I really seemed to think that drinking blood was more reasonable than drinking. Am I affected in any way? ”

[Blood Food.] The gods are probably like that. You're going to have blood to eat.]

"Hey, it doesn't matter, does it? Drink it all. ”

[I think he's going to ask you to drink it anyway before he can start the next step.] At this time, drinking alcohol has nothing to do with drinking blood, wine and blood are of the same origin, both are the same, but there are slight differences in the senses. And the wine was as red as a cherry, and it didn't look like a normal wine no matter how you looked at it. So what does it taste like? I haven't drunk Ambrosia yet, though it's the wine of the gods. 】

"It's the taste of wine, and I don't really understand it. But if you have to rate it, it smells like weeds."

[Have you seen it?] What? 】

"Roast suckling pig. Roast suckling pig should be brushed with more oil and evenly brushed, so that the skin will be crispy and delicious. However, no matter how crispy the crust is, there is always a hole in the chisel, and the puff pastry cannot be baked. Because you have to insert a chisel to insert the roast suckling pig, otherwise it will fall into the fire. The heel of Achilles is not the chisel inserted when roasting the suckling pig. For example, you can also hang a hook for roast duck. ”

"Wait." The smell of wine at the corner of his mouth dissipated, and Shang Luo suddenly thought, "If they want to ascend to the gods, then the ultimate goal is "

But we all know that it is death. He had soaked in the Great River Styx, and his body was indistinguishable from the dead, except for the 'Achilles' heel held by her mother, which belonged to the living. After this part was destroyed by Apollo's arrows, he was completely dead. 】

[It's not that you're going to die right away, or I wouldn't be able to let you drink it.] Because after all, it is the secret wine of the fairy world, the wine of secret rites, and it is generally a good thing. Achilles' mother foresaw that she would die in battle, so she smeared Achilles' whole body with Ambrosia. But this is only half of the ritual, the other half you already know, she soaked Achilles in the water of the Great River Styx, and 'King Kong is not bad' was established.

[I said. I'm sure Alexander won't be able to hear us now. No one can't help but get their hands on it, let alone Alexander. His temperament is known to people throughout the ages, but he can't swallow it in one breath. Don't forget, when he came across "King Solomon's Knot" in Virginia and couldn't untie it, his first instinct was to cut off the knot. 】

"This seems to be quite auspicious?"

"Huh?" Shang Luo felt that this family was too powerful from just now, but he didn't expect that there would be this layer.

[And that's not all. The most important ritual of Dionysian Esoteric Buddhism is to tear the bull by hand, because Dionysus will be reborn from blood. Zoroastrianism also believed that the world was born from the flesh and blood of a bull, and that Bactria, from which Alexander's wife came, was a Persian Zoroastrian religion – a path that was indeed practiced by them in Alexander's time. In Olympias's plan, she wanted Alexander to become the universal god-king, and her plan had already succeeded in Egypt, and it was only a matter of time before it could be replicated elsewhere. 】

[I mean literally,. His mother, Olympias, was a priestess of Dionysian Esoteric Religion. Following the legend of Achilles, gilding her son with an aura of divinity was her vocation as a priest. Alexander was clearly influenced as well, and his target was Achilles, the son of Zeus and Thetis, the son of the gods and the Nymphs, and the champion warrior of the Crusades. Now it seems that even the method of death has been imitated thoroughly: to die suddenly in the most glorious time of life. 】

[He has fucking logic. 】

"I wonder why Alexander took the initiative to put on his armor. Where is the logic of his actions? ”

[Geely, but this thing is very domineering, and the place outside of Arcadia is an invasive species.] Because Ambrosian grasses grow and multiply at different times, they can quickly take over the local ecosystem. Whether it's in the mountains or in the fields, it's all Ambrosian grass. It's just that because of the natural conditions, Ambrosian grass is actually difficult to grow outside of the Mediterranean climate. This thing symbolizes the 'food of the heavenly realm' in a way, and if you touch it, you become 'unearthly' - you die. 】

[It is an Ambrosian grass, a weed that grows in the mountains of Arcadia near Sparta.] Not only can the seeds grow, but even if they are cut into sections, they can sprout from each section separately and grow a new Ambrosian grass. In addition, the growth cycle of the whole population is staggered and overlapped, and in the warm and humid climate of the Mediterranean, it can continue to germinate in December of the year, whether it is a knife cut, a fire or a lightning strike, the whole population will continue to sprout again from the original area. It looks like immortality - so at Zeus's feast, Ambrosia was the 'secret wine' used to entertain the gods. 】

"Well, if they succeed"

"Huh?"

"Huh? Then I'll die if I drink it? ”

[It must be through the path of the god of wine to ascend to the god as the king of gods.] Dionysian Esoteric Religion would inevitably follow this path, and Olympias spent his life assembling ritual elements for Alexander—because the Dionysian system is characterized by two horns. The two horns symbolize fertility and desire, the adoptive father of Dionysus, the god of wine, is the mountain god of the two horns, the artistic image of the mad woman of the god of wine is also the double horns, and the god Amun, whom Alexander specially went to seek, is also the double horns. 】

"So this ritual, divided into two parts? Using [Ambrosia Secret Wine] first, and then soaking the Great River Styx, you can maintain the state of not being born and dying, not increasing or decreasing, and not being pure and dirty, and achieving the state of King Kong not being bad. How do I seem to have seen it somewhere? ”

You can see these elements. The god of wine and the god of the sun are united here—the grand plan of Olympias, both ritual and practical. Because this is the universal god-king, the king of the earth (Gaia), the sum of all the concepts of human civilization, and the god of human civilization who has approached it: Ceres. In fact, you can see from the Greek god system that the kinship between the gods and the gods is a metaphor for relative positions. Zeus, the direct ancestor of the celestial lineage, is the god of the earth mother, or the god of ceres. At that time, only the god of hunting had not yet entered this realm - Alexander had not become a god of the wilderness after all. 】

"I suddenly had a bad feeling. Did the conditions Alexander want to prescribe include what interpretation elements he would get from me? ”

(End of chapter)