Chapter 090: The God of Fire Stealing

The demons nodded, water is a very good thing, an important resource that any life needs. As an Aquarius person, although this sign is named after an Aquarius, it is inevitable that it will be associated with water, water is so weak and so fierce, many gods need water to destroy the world.

At this time, Honglian's footsteps stopped, and she was a little puzzled: "By the way, are your humans here made by Prometheus?"

"Ah, this, how to say, there are many human beings, especially after merging with other races, there are many sub-races. Of course, it is normal for humans to have gods and spirits, but this is only a small part, and most of them are still ancient. ”

"I see, it means that there are people who are contemporaries of the gods, and there are also gods who create people alone, I see. Then let's talk about this Aquarius myth, which is the story of Prometheus stealing fire. ”

The demons nodded, and when it came to Prometheus, it was terrible. His fame is not ordinary, and it is estimated that he has done a good job in publicity. Immediately, the demons began to listen carefully, saying that they were listening to Red Lotus, but in fact, they wanted to see how the humans on their earth knew. Maybe there is a great god who has entered that universe, such as Tai Chi gossip or something?

Red Lotus also began to organize the wording, and mentioned before that she wanted to talk about the 12 zodiac signs, but after thinking about it, it is better to get the zodiac signs first: "Aquarius itself is also a complex sign: it has two ruling planets, Saturn and Uranus. But unlike Pluto and Mars, the ruling planets of Scorpio. Saturn and Uranus have little in common. Their relationship is even incompatible, in line with the duality and ambiguity inherent in Aquarius itself.

And what we are going to talk about now is Prometheus, the second generation of the Titan God. In order to seize power in the heavenly realm, Prometheus fought side by side with Zeus. Helped him. The reason for the two gods to turn against each other is simple: Zeus forbade humans to use fire, while Prometheus stole fire from Mount Olympus and brought it to mankind.

About this Titan God created man is also the same as many great gods, pinching clay people to play. The earth and water are shaped into human form in the image of the gods. Here, it was Athena who breathed the breath of life into mankind and imparted various knowledge and wisdom to mankind in architecture, navigation, astronomy, medicine, metallurgy, etc.

He intuitively taught humans to transcend their own animality. Become like the gods. Prometheus's kindness to humanity is the main theme of Aquarius. It is also the best portrayal of this constellation.

But it's not that simple, and like any zodiac myth, Aquarius has another side to it. And the figure of this opposite is the god-king Zeus, in this story. Zeus, the god-king, just wanted to destroy humanity. Like many god-kings, he was a jealous god, and he was not used to the lowly species of humans, and often even wanted to kill them.

Prometheus, who protected humanity, did not hide his contempt for the dictatorship of Zeus. He would also often work against Zeus. Here's a little story about sacrifice.

It is said that one day he was asked by humans to be the arbiter of which half of the beef should be sacrificed to the gods and which half should be reserved for the humans themselves to eat. He peeled off the bull's skin and sewed it into two open cowhide bags. One of them is filled with beef, which is hidden under the belly, and the other bag is filled with beef bones. And cover with a thick layer of butter, then let Zeus choose himself.

But the God King was not lucky, and he chose the bag of butter. He was furious when he discovered that the butter was full of bones, and as punishment for Prometheus, he refused to allow humans to use fire. "Just let them eat beef raw!" roared the King of the Universe. Speaking of which, we pay attention to the narrative of the story, which is kind of hilarious.

Just like the war of a hundred countries in our country, if I am not happy with you, I will fight a certain country, if I am not happy, I will fight a certain country, and I will not open the forest, but I will still fight a certain country. It's the same here, as a lowly species, human beings are all beaten.

But myths must highlight the painstaking efforts of the gods, which is what all myths follow, especially the victory of the gods on the side of mankind. After this, Prometheus turned to Athena and secretly went up to Mount Olympus, lit a torch while the sun god's sun chariot passed by, burned it into coals, and stuffed it into the hollow stem of a large bulb fennel, thus bringing fire to mankind.

And how could Zeus, who was known for his violent temper, be a god-king? He swore revenge.

He ordered Hezhestus to create a woman out of clay, and the four wind gods blew life into her and asked the gods to give her different gifts.

Among them, Athena is dressed in gorgeous clothes, and Hermes is given the ability to lie. The first woman in the world was a charming woman, and because she received a gift from every god that was harmful to men, Zeus called her Pandora. It means incitement.

Zeus offered her as a gift to Prometheus' brother, but was rejected because he had been warned by his prescient brother not to accept Zeus' gift. So Zeus bound Prometheus naked to a pillar on the Caucasus Mountain, and sent a vulture to peck at his liver day after day, year after year, and how much the liver was eaten, it returned to its original state every night.

I am afraid that I will suffer the same fate as my brother, and Pandora's beautiful appearance makes everyone fall in love with it. Epimetatheus happily welcomed her into the house. The couple had a happy life, but soon disaster struck the world.

While Prometheus was busy teaching people how to survive, he entrusted a bucket to Epimetheus. He had warned his brother not to open the lid of the barrel. Pandora is curious. Her husband did not allow her to look at the contents of the bucket, much to her chagrin.

One day away on Epimetheus, she opened the lid of the barrel, and out of the barrel came discord and war, pestilence and disease, theft and violence, sorrow and anxieties, and other misfortunes that mankind would henceforth become. Only hope is locked in the mouth of the barrel and can never fly out, so this is the meaning that people often hide hope in their hearts.

This is the prototype of the famous Pandora's box story.

After this, Zeus's never-ending punishment of Prometheus was actually limited in time. Because of the intercession of the martial immortal Hercules, and the fact that a monster named Chiron volunteered to die in place of Prometheus, Zeus agreed to release him. And the punishment after that, we won't talk about it now.

Now let's return to the parable of the story itself, where Prometheus redeemed humanity from darkness and from whom all human skill comes from, qualities of kindness that are evident in Aquarius – concern for human welfare and development. Zeus, another image of Aquarius, is not so simple, and the meaning of the torture he represents is not easy to understand.

This characteristic of the twelve zodiac signs, as well as the characteristics of all things in time, is what we earthlings call a paradox. On the one hand, there is a strong desire for awakening, and on the other hand, there is an equally strong desire for the unconscious. The same is true of yin and yang in our China, but the name is different.

We can think of Prometheus as a hero, because it is he who gives mankind the divine fire. But from the point of view of the divine realm, he has committed a great sin, and this situation is exactly the problem that everyone has to face, just like our demon moon, we work hard to sweep away the evil, but we also bring a lot of evil because of it, and the good and bad cannot be said for a while.

Well, now, we have to return to the representative of Aquarius, Ka Miao, who is also able to illustrate this contradiction of Aquarius very well.

He is not only the Golden Saint Seiya, but also the master of the Immortal Xiaoqiang Group Binghe. He knows that Binghe is sentimental by nature, which is precisely the most fatal flaw of Saint Seiya. In order to test the glacier, he went to the Libra Palace and knocked his mother's sleeping boat into the bottom of the sea in front of the glacier. Looking at Binghe's grief-stricken and painful expression, although Ka Miao's face was as cold as ice, in his heart, there was sadness and helplessness.

It is impossible for such a glacier that cannot cut off feelings to defeat the Golden Saint Seiya. He didn't want to see his disciples become the target of other Saint Seiya's destruction. So I shot it myself. Do you remember what I said before, whether it is an Aquarius woman or an Aquarius man, they are all based on their own principles.

The only way to keep Binghe out of battle was to seal him in an ice coffin, and when he froze Binghe, Ka Miao had no expression on his face. But then, when he looked at Binghe sleeping in the ice coffin, he couldn't help but cry, the cold mask could disguise his face, but not his heart.

Among all the Saint Seiyas, Ka Miao loved his disciples deeply, but he always hid this emotion under the cold exterior. And this tragedy is the battle between Ka Miao and the Aquarius Palace of the Glacier.

The rapid growth of the glacier in the battle made Ka Miao extremely happy. However, Ka Miao did not give Binghe even the slightest praise for this, and he still greeted Binghe with a cold face. He did this in order to guide Binghe to his seventh sense. In order to make Binghe surpass himself, he knocked Binghe down again and again, watching his disciple Sun struggle to get up from the ground, Ka Miao was distressed and sad, but he had to do it.

When Binghe still raised his arms and assumed the forgiveness posture of the Goddess of Dawn after losing his five senses, Kass was full of comfort that Binghe finally realized the seventh sense, and his mission was about to be completed. The duel in the Aquarius Palace, this is the last lesson that Ka Miao gave up his life to Binghe!

This is also the best interpretation of Aquarius. (To be continued......)