Chapter 171: Under the Gods
Hera, the queen of the gods, the goddess of marriage, the goddess of women and fertility, the queen of the universe, the goddess of the highest status, presides over marriage and childbirth, defends the family, is the sister of Zeus, and is united with Zeus.
Zeus courted his sister Hera, but was rejected, so he turned himself into a soaked cuckoo bird and flew to Hera's side, and the deceived Hera felt pity for the drenched bird and put the bird on his chest to warm it, and at this moment, Zeus appeared and took possession of Hera while she was panicking.
Three hundred years after the secret union of Zeus and Hera, Zeus announced this to the gods, and at the wedding feast of Zeus and Hera, the Earth Mother Gaia presented him with a golden apple from the Holy Garden. When Zeus and Hera were united, the earth celebrated their happy marriage by giving birth to many apple trees full of golden apples, which are also known as the Tree of Life.
Hera was the most authoritative goddess, she wore golden straw sandals and sat on the golden temple, her glory and majesty were simply incomparable, Hera was the queen of heaven, she was very authoritative, the gods were intimidated by her majesty, she was authoritarian, jealous, and quite belligerent.
Apollo. He is in charge of light, youth, medicine, animal husbandry, music, etc., and is the god of protection of mankind, the god of light, the god of prophecy, the god of migration and navigation, the god of healing, and the god of disaster relief, and is symbolized by a harp, a bow and arrow, and a crown made of palm trees, goddess of love, and laurel trees.
Zeus was very fond of the goddess Leto, and after they fell in love, Leto became pregnant, but it caused Hera's jealousy.
Hera was jealous that her cousin had married Leto, the dark goddess of Zeus, before she did. He prevented her from giving birth on the earth, and ordered the gods of the earth to forbid help Leto, so that Leto hid in the earth in agony, with no place to live, and not only that, Hera also sent the giant serpent skin, born of Gaia, the mother of the earth, to pursue, and the arrival of Pitong undoubtedly made Leto even worse.
Later, she turned into a swan and came to a floating island, and with the help of Zeus, fixed the floating island to the bottom of the sea with four heel pillars. Apollo and his sister Artemis were born on this island, which was later named Delos.
When Apollo was born, his body glowed with golden light, and the goddesses of heaven screamed with joy.
In order to gain the recognition of the gods, Apollo decided to go to Mount Olympus to show his unique skills, but the gods of Olympus did not take him seriously at all, especially Hera, who looked down on him at all. So, Apollo decided to go out into the world on his own. And he has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and his fame is getting bigger and bigger.
Once, Apollo met Cupid, the little god of love, and he laughed at Cupid's arrows like toys, and it was impossible to establish immortal feats, and Cupid took out two arrows of different colors from his quiver. One is of gold and the other is lead, the arrow of gold is the arrow of love, and the arrow of lead is the one that resists love.
Cupid shoots a golden arrow at Apollo and a lead arrow at the fairy Daphne. A love tragedy began, Apollo fell in love with Daphne, and Daphne saw Apollo as if he saw a devil, and finally, in order to avoid Apollo, Daphne turned into a laurel tree, and Apollo used laurel branches to decorate his bow in honor of Daphne.
Apollo was in charge of music and harp, but also in charge of dance, poetry and inspiration, poets and prophets relied on his revelations, Apollo was the god who illuminated the world, nothing escaped the judgment of this great god, and his miraculous light shone everywhere, and sometimes illuminated the wisdom of people, making everything real and possible.
One of Apollo's sons was named Asclepius, he would heal the sick and save people, and bring the dead back to life, so that the order of nature was destroyed, and hell was empty, Hades was furious, and went to Zeus to decide, Zeus killed Asclepius with thunder and lightning, and Apollo was powerless despite his grief.
Artemis, the goddess of the moon, is the sister of Apollo, the god of the sun, and she is a lively, toned and hearty goddess, with almost the same divinity as her brother, with the first quarter moon as her bow and the moonlight as her arrow.
Nine days after Artemis was born, he helped his mother deliver his younger brother Apollo, and because he was chosen by the goddess of fate to be the goddess of midwifery, he asked his father Zeus for the job of taking care of women giving birth.
She was the goddess of hunting, and the protector of wild beasts, and she especially loved small animals, so that the pastures and cultivated fields were green and grassy, and the goddess often led the fairies who served her to find out the hidden places, parade and hunt, and whenever she was tired, she played the harp or flute, and danced with the fairies, and the goddess of the muses and the goddess of grace often came to help the fun.
Artemis, the goddess of the moon, brings morning dew and rain and frost to the earth, and she brings benefits to the fields where the cultivated land has a good harvest of grain, but if people forget to sacrifice to her, she freezes the crops with hail and banishes the wild beasts to trample the crops.
Artemis was fond of wandering through the forest and grassland, with a childish face and a quiver on her shoulder, often accompanied by a stag or hound.
Aphrodis, she is the goddess of love and beauty, born from the foam splashed by the cut off ** official of Ouranos into the Aegean Sea, not only the goddess, but also the goddess who governs all the friendships in the world, with white porcelain-like skin, a mixture of elegance and charm
On Mount Olympus, both Hera and Athena said they could rival Aphrodis, and once, while the gods were feasting, the goddess of strife crept into the banquet hall of Mount Olympus, and she placed on the table a golden apple engraved with the most beautiful one.
Hera took the apple, but neither Athena nor Aphrodisi agreed, and asked Zeus to make a ruling, the matter was very tricky, Zeus had to give it to a shepherd named Paris, Hera promised to make him king, Athena promised to make him a hero, Aphrodisi promised to give him a most beautiful wife, Paris looked at the three goddesses, and after much consideration, he gave the golden apple to Aphrodis. The dispute between the three goddesses was resolved, and from then on, Aphrodisi became the undisputed god of beauty, but the terrible Trojan War broke out, and the gods were divided into two factions to participate, and in the end, there was a Trojan horse massacre.
Aphrodite's beauty conquered not only the gods of Mount Olympus, but also the hearts of men, she ignited passion with sweet wishes, made them love, made them feel happy or miserable, her influence spread throughout nature, on the vast sea, she appeared in the form of light, the stormy waves would immediately calm down when they saw her, and the storms would immediately stop, she was also the mother of plants, making the earth full of life and flowers.
However, as soon as Aphrodite arrived on Mount Olympus, she was forced to marry Hephaestus, the ugly, short, lame blacksmith god, but she was not a loyal wife, and the god of war Ares fornicated with her, gave birth to five children, and gave birth to Aeneas with Hermes** and the hero Ancasses many times.
Hephaestus learned of his wife's infidelity from the sun god, who was calm and made an invisible and indestructible net hanging, hung it on the marriage bed he shared with Aphrodite, and told Aphrodite that he was going to leave for the island of Lemnos.
In the case of negligence, Ares and Aphrodite were caught in the net, Hephaestus came back to catch his wife and Ares adultery, he summoned the other gods to visit the pair of naked mandarin ducks, and after humiliating them to the fullest, Hephaestus agreed to untie the net on them, but only if Ares made reparations for his ** actions.
Hepistus, the son of Zeus and Hera, the brother of Ares, was only born because of his ugly appearance, weak body, and disability, and was thrown down Mount Olympus by Hera at birth, and after a few days and nights he fell into the ocean and was adopted by the goddess of the ocean.
When he grew up, he learned various crafts. Then he built an extremely beautiful chair, the Throne of Hephaestus, and he quietly placed it in the place where Hera, his mother, who did not recognize the relationship between mother and child, had to pass.
The vain Hera immediately took the bait, she liked the charming chair, so she sat on it, and then, her joints were locked by the chair's mechanism. I couldn't move, and my mana was gone.
At this time, Hera found out that it was too late, and she ordered Hephaestus to let her go, so Hephaestus forced her to admit herself, because Hephaestus was a cripple and ugly, and Hera did not want to admit it, so Hephaestus did not untie Hera. Walk away.
Hera was imprisoned in solitude for many years, without sociality, adoring glances and flattering kisses, and at last she could not stand it anymore and begged her son to let her go, saying that she was at fault.
After becoming the god of Olympus, Hephaestus built a splendid palace for the gods and also built a workshop on the mountain. For forging tools, he made a king's scepter and an aegis for Zeus. He made the Dionysian staff for the god of wine, armor for the hero Achilles, a solar chariot for the sun god Apollo, and pinched out Pandora with his hands, and the chains that bound Prometheus were also forged by Hephaestus, although he was very sad about it, as a friend of Prometheus.
Ares. The mad war maniac, the god of war in this world, is in charge of war, fighting, killing, destroying, fire, horror, disaster, power, symbolizing power, war, scourge, conquering, bloodthirsty, force, bravery, marked by spears, helmets, dogs, chariots, and wild boars.
Among the gods. The god of war, Ares, was the most hated, described as a bloodthirsty murderer and conqueror of defended castles.
Wherever there is a fierce battle, he immediately rushes to where, and slashes without asking, he puts on the battle uniform and is majestic, wearing the armor with a feather on his head, wearing leather sleeves on his arms, and holding a copper spear aggressively, he is blessed, majestic and agile, tireless in battle, powerful and burly.
He was also the enemy of wisdom and the scourge of mankind, and he fought his opponents, usually on foot, sometimes from a four-horse chariot, and was accompanied by his sons: the god of terror, the god of trembling, the god of panic and fear, as well as his sister and daughter of the goddess Eris, the goddess of destruction of cities, and a group of bloodthirsty demons.
Hestia, the goddess of the hearth, was in charge of the family affairs of all the peoples, was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, the sister of Zeus and Hera, Apollo and Poseidon both proposed to her, but she swore not to marry for the rest of her life in order to maintain the virginity, and Zeus, considering that she wanted a place to live, promised to let each family give her a seat.
She quietly left Mount Olympus, to protect every family with a stove, she is not only the god of the hearth, but also the god of the family, the flame symbolizes her existence and the guarantee of the family's sustainable stability and prosperity and prosperity, in this world, the fire on the altar is lit by the ancestors, and their descendants are obliged to let the candle continue to be lit, because the extinguishing of the candle flame means the extinction of the human race, every family has its own stove, each town has its own altar, the fire on the altar symbolizes the life of the town, whenever the people of a town go to a new place to establish a colony, the sacred fire is accompanied by these brave immigrants to other places。
Because Hestia wanted to live with humans and avoid the pursuit of Poseidon and Apollo, he gave up the position of one of the main gods to Dionysus, who was easy and humble and kind-hearted, and was deeply loved by the gods and the people.
Demeter, the goddess of grains in charge of agriculture, the goddess of fertility, the patron of the abundant yield of the land, agricultural and social habits and family life, the goddess of legislation, was a noble goddess, tall and dignified, with beautiful blonde hair that fell on her shoulders like waves, and golden dreadlocks symbolizing ripe ears of corn.
She sat on a chariot drawn by a winged dragon, holding a bunch of ears of wheat in one hand and a lit torch in the other, two things, both powerful artifacts of her ability, with incredible power.
Demeter had a daughter named Persephone, who was the jewel of Demeter's palm, Persephone was very fond of flowers and gardening, and spent her days frolicking among the wildflowers, one day, she was picking flowers in the fields of Sicily, and suddenly a crack opened in the cliff, and Hades, the king of Hades, drove out of it in a golden chariot.
The first time Hades saw Persephone, he fell in love with her completely, so he forcibly put Persephone in the carriage and drove back to Hades. When Demeter heard his daughter's cries for help and rushed to the field, her daughter was long gone.
Filled with a search of Sicily and finding nothing, Demeter took out her anger on the innocent inhabitants, causing all the crops to wither and the island to become lifeless.