Chapter 534: Otherworldly Shinto

Helios could not bear the continued suffering of the inhabitants of the island, so he told Demeter of Persephone's whereabouts, and Demeter approached Hades and demanded that he return his daughter, but the king of Hades had already made Persephone swallow the pomegranate seeds of a pomegranate fruit in the underworld, so that he could not return to the human world (if the living consumed the food of the underworld, they would not be able to return to the yang world).

Demeter begged Zeus to allow her to go down to the underworld to accompany his daughter, but for the sake of the growth and reproduction of all things, Zeus refused her request, and since Zeus refused the request, Demeter no longer paid attention to the world, and the world was suddenly chaotic, plants no longer grew, the land became barren, and the black representing death slowly replaced the green of life.

Later, Zeus promised Demeter that he could go down to the underworld to accompany his daughter for three months of the year, and since then, the earth will no longer produce during the three months that Demeter has left the mortal world, and the world has presented a barren scene, so the time when Demeter went down to the underworld is called winter.

Hermes, the god of commerce, the god of travelers, the god of animal husbandry, the protector of travelers, the patron of merchants, the god of eloquence, the messenger of the gods, the herald and messenger of Zeus, the inventer of rulers, numbers and letters, clever and cunning, the creator of the art of deception, he passed on the art of deception to his son, and was the inventor of the lyre, the patron god of all kinds of athletic competitions, in charge of commerce, theft, travel, sports, athletics, crossings, the guidance of the Yellow Springs Road, with the staff of the snake, the winged boots, the tortoise, the lyre, the rooster, The snake is the symbol.

He was a stealer, he had played a joke with the gods, he had stolen Zeus's scepter, Poseidon's three-strand fork, Apollo's golden arrow, Artemis' silver bow, and Ares' sword, and when he was a child who slept in a cradle, he once broke free from his infant without his mother noticing. Sneaking out of the cave, he killed a giant turtle and made the first lyre out of the turtle's shell, three branches, and a few strings.

On another occasion he jumped out of a cave and, in the valley of Pierria, stole fifty of Apollo's cattle in order not to leave a trace. He tied the ox's feet with reeds and branches, and then he went back to the forest, and drove the oxen onward, until he reached Pylos, where he killed two oxen and sacrificed them to the gods, and hid the others in the cave, and returned to his mother's place of residence as if nothing happened, and climbed into the cradle.

But his mother noticed what he was doing. They reproached him for being too reckless, and feared that Apollo would retaliate against them, and sure enough, when Apollo found out that his cattle had been stolen, he asked Hermes to find herd, and Zeus ordered Hermes to return the herd, and when Apollo pulled his cattle out of the cave, Hermes was sitting on the stone at the entrance of the cave and playing the harp, and the beautiful sound of the harp made Apollo very intoxicated. He even agreed to change the piano with a cow.

Dionysus was not originally one of the twelve Greek gods. Later, however, Hestia gave up the position of the main god to him, and he was the god of wine, who not only possessed the intoxicating power of wine, but also became a charismatic god with his joy and love.

He was the son of Zeus and Semele, who was the princess of Thebais. Zeus fell in love with her and had a tryst with her, and when Hera learned about it, she was very jealous and became a relative of the princess, instigating the princess to make a request to Zeus. It is necessary to see the true body of Zeus to verify Zeus's love for her.

Zeus could not resist the princess's request and showed his original form, as a result of which Semele was burned to death in the thunder fire, Zeus rescued the infant Dionysus, who was less than a month, sewed him in his thigh, and did not take him out until full-term, because when he was in Zeus's lap, Zeus walked like a lame, hence the name Dionysus, which means lame man.

As an infant, Dionysus first entrusted the care of his mother's own sister, the second wife of the Theban king Athamas, Ino, who regarded Dionysus as her own son, but Zeus, who was afraid of the revenge of the queen of heaven, finally chose to ask Hechuli to take the child to the house of Nicead, and put it on the mountain nymphs, who carefully nursed him to grow up.

As a teenager, he was appointed as the god of revelry, and the half-man, half-sheep god of the mountains was his tutor, educating and accompanying him on his travels, and he roamed around in his chariot drawn by the wild beast Panther, where he mastered all the secrets of nature and the history of wine, and wherever he went, he taught people how to grow grapes and make sweet wines.

He roamed like this, and wherever he went, music, singing, and binge drinking followed, and his attendants, known as the Dionysian devotees, were also known for their noisy disorder, laughing unbridledly, and drinking and dancing and singing carelessly, and among his female followers, the most uninhibited were the Dionysian priests, who, in the atmosphere of revelry, drunk and dancing, accompanied him from kingdom to kingdom.

When they were mad or excited, they used brutal violence, and they tore apart the siblings of the talented musician Orps, even the king of Thebais, Penthos, who was punished by the god of wine and the Thebais who followed the god of wine because of the worship of bacchus by his people, and who led the group of fanatical women to punish Pentheus, was his own mother Agowa.

This is the twelve main gods of Olympus, in this world, the gods are the masters of the world, and mortals, basically, have no chance to become gods, because, in the flood and wilderness, there is a spiritual energy, so mortals can cultivate into immortals, and this world is different, there is no aura in it, whether it is mortals or other animals, it is impossible to cultivate.

Therefore, in the midst of the desolation, Shinto, which is not valued at all, is the mainstream here, and the immortal path that pursues detachment has never appeared in this world at all, which makes mortals mortals mortals all their lives, and the gods are destined to be high, accept the worship of mortals, and wantonly play with the fate of mortals.

And the so-called gods, including which monster titans or something, are able to have immortal life and powerful power, in the final analysis, it is still the power of the bloodline, they are all descendants of the earth goddess Gaia, inheriting her bloodline, so that they can become gods.

As for mortals, although they do not have the opportunity to obtain eternal life, they can kill monsters or make great achievements in the war, so as to become heroes admired by everyone, and even have the opportunity to take gods as wives, just like the current Flying father Peleus, who is the most outstanding hero, so he took the goddess of the sea and gave birth to the reincarnation of Flying Achilles.

As for the gods, the gods in the wilderness are all behaving in a proper manner, and basically do not oppress the people, but this world is different, the gods do not have too many constraints, they can act recklessly, and do whatever they want, if mortals dare to disrespect the gods, they will definitely be killed by the gods. (To be continued......)