Chapter 533: The Twelve Gods (II)
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, and lame blacksmith god, but she was not a loyal wife, and Ares, the god of war, fornicated with her, gave birth to five children, had many friendships with Hermes, and gave birth to Aeneas with the hero Anchises.
Hephaestus learned of his wife's infidelity from the sun god, and the god of fire was so calm that he 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.
Ignoring the precautions, Ares and Aphrodite were caught in the middle of the rain, and Hephaestus came back to catch his wife for her adultery with Ares, and 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 on the condition that Ares pay compensation for his adultery.
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 quietly placed it in the place where Hera, his mother, who did not recognize the mother-child relationship, 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 madman, the god of war in this world, is in charge of war, strife, slaughter, destruction, fire, terror, disaster, strength, and bravery, symbolizing strength, power, war, calamity, conquest, bloodlust, force, and bravery, and is 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 a defended castle", who was fiery and aggressive, dancing at the sound of war drums and fascinated by the smell of blood.
Wherever there is a fierce battle, he immediately rushes to where, and slashes without asking indiscriminately, he puts on the battle uniform with a majestic posture, wears a feathered armor, wears leather sleeves on his arms, and holds a copper spear aggressively, he is endowed with majesty, agility, tirelessness, force, and magnificence.
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 goddess Eris, his daughter 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 stove, but also the god of the family, the flame symbolizes her existence, and the family is sustainable. 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, and every town has its own altar, and the fire on the altar symbolizes the life of the town, and whenever the people of a town go to a new place to establish a colony, the sacred flame accompanies these brave immigrants to other places.
Hestia wanted to live with humans and avoid the pursuit of Poseidon and Apollo, so he gave up the position of one of the main gods to Dionysus, who was easy-going, humble, and kind-hearted, and 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, dignified, majestic, 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.
Demeter searched all over Sicily, but in the end she found nothing, and in her anger she took out her anger on the innocent inhabitants, causing all the crops on the island to wither and the whole island to become dead and lifeless. (To be continued......)