Chapter 608 The Three Great Gods of the Yamato Islands

"Brother Roy!"

Hearing the familiar voice, Procne turned around in surprise.

Seeing Roy actually appearing in front of him, Procne said in disbelief.

"Am I dreaming?"

"This is reality!"

Roy said with a smile.

"Procne, I'm back."

After speaking, Roy opened his hands to Procne.

Procne immediately burst into tears and threw herself into Roy's arms.

Seeing Procne burst into tears and soon wetting his clothes with uncontrollable tears, Roy said guiltily.

"I'm sorry, I should have come back to you sooner."

Procne shook her head and said.

"Philomela and her children need Brother Roy more, and Brother Roy should stay with them."

"Silly girl! Don't you want to be a mother and have your child?"

Procne immediately fell silent.

As she grew older, Procne saw many girls of similar age she knew becoming mothers, and of course she also had the idea of ​​becoming a mother.

Roy picked up Procne in a princess hug and said.

"We have been separated for so long, let me make it up to you! I will stay with you day and night until you have a child."

"Brother Roy..."

Procne said in disbelief.

"Will you really stay with me?"

"Of course! Being by your side will not affect my ability to run the war machine of the Athenian Empire."

A blink of an eye.

Time enters 1594 BC.

March.

Roy stayed in Athens for half a year.

For the past six months, Roy had been with Procne every day and every night.

The Indian Ocean naval fleet of the Athenian Empire also made an expedition to the East under the command of Roy.

Thanks to Loy's diligent work, Procne is now six months pregnant, as evidenced by her visibly protruding belly.

Roy also had the idea of ​​​​leaving the city of Athens after the expedition fleet stopped advancing.

Royal Palace of Athens.

After a happy afternoon with Procne, Roy spoke his mind over dinner.

Procne, who is considerate, will naturally not retain Roy.

late at night.

Procne burst into tears in her sleep.

Roy wiped away the tears on her face and then quietly disappeared from the palace.

The far east.

Honshu Island.

A temple built for Loy by the Athenian navy during its expedition to the East.

It was still night in the city of Athens, but it was already daytime with the sun shining brightly here.

Roy teleported to the sky above the temple, thinking he was on a peninsula on the mainland of China.

After flying tens of thousands of meters into the sky and looking down at the ground, Roy realized that he was on Honshu Island.

The purpose of Loy ordering the Athenian navy to expedition to the east was to make the Athenian navy the vanguard for his conquest of the Chinese continent.

Unexpectedly, the expedition fleet rushed over and came to the Yamato Islands in the east to occupy a corner.

The Yamato Archipelago is located on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. It is an arc-shaped island country extending from northeast to southwest, including four large islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu and more than 6,800 other small islands, with a total area of ​​378,000 square kilometers.

The confirmed human history on the Yamato Islands dates back to approximately 30,000 to 100,000 years ago.

About 12,000 years ago, due to the end of the last glacial period, rapid warming began, which caused great changes in people's culture and life, and the entire island entered the next Jomon period.

At this time, people made Jomon-style pottery, and after the early period, they became settled, and most of them lived in semi-burrowed houses.

They used bows and arrows for hunting, shell mound fishing, and plant collection to make a living. They also used broken stone tools, ground stone tools, bone and horn tools, etc., and began to plant rice in the later period.

The Jomon Period of Yamato Islands officially ended in 300 BC, and the Paleolithic Age began to enter the Neolithic Age.

It is now 1594 BC, and there are still 1,300 years before the Yamato Islands enter the Neolithic Age.

In other words, the current Yamato Islands are in the Paleolithic Age.

The Athenians with their iron civilization came to the Yamato Islands in the Paleolithic Age. Not to mention conquering the Yamato Islands with dimensionality reduction strikes, it is not surprising that they were regarded as gods by the indigenous people with backward civilization.

In another world, the Yamato mythology is so intricate that there are even claims of eight million gods.

But tracing back to the origin, the sun god Amaterasu, the moon god Tsukiyomi, and the sea god Susanoo are undoubtedly the three highest-status gods.

Amaterasu, the sun god, represents sun worship.

In ancient times, sun worship was widespread around the world, and the sun god was worshiped as the supreme god.

It is normal for the Yamato Islands to worship the sun god. The only special point is that the sun god Amaterasu of the Yamato Islands is a goddess.

Perhaps the aborigines of the Yamato Islands have retained the goddess worship from the matrilineal clan era.

Perhaps the sun god Amaterasu is also the clone of the ancient earth goddess, who evolved into the sun goddess on the Yamato Islands in order to meet human needs.

Although the Moon God Tsukiyomi is one of the three noble sons along with the Sun God Amaterasu and the Poseidon Susanoo, and is one of the three highest-status gods in the Yamato Islands, the Moon God Tsukiyomi itself does not have strong authority.

Like most moon gods in the world, they exist as vassals of the sun god.

Unlike Amaterasu's clear identity as the sun goddess, Tsukuyomi's gender is not determined and can be male or female.

There are both theories that she is the twin goddess of Amaterasu and the male god.

The Yamato Islands are surrounded by the sea, and fishing is an important source of food for fishermen along the coast of the Yamato Islands, which established Susanoo's status.

Later, with the evolution of time, Susanoo left the identity of the sea god and evolved into a ferocious war god.

Although in mythology, the sun god Amaterasu, the moon god Tsukuyomi, and the sea god Susanoo are three siblings, but reality is not a myth.

In reality, only the sun goddess Amaterasu and the moon goddess Tsukuyomi are worshipped as twin sisters.

The sea god Susanoo has nothing to do with the sun goddess Amaterasu and the moon goddess Tsukuyomi.

So in the myth of the sun god Amaterasu and the sea god Susanoo, Susanoo left the sea and came to Amaterasu's territory, and Amaterasu immediately armed herself and prepared to fight.

Susanoo stayed in Takama-ga-hara and refused to leave, so Amaterasu hid in Ama-iwato.

Amaterasu did not leave Ama-iwato until Susanoo left.

The real prototype corresponding to this myth.

It is obvious that the coastal tribes who worship Susanoo went deep into the inland and robbed the inland residents - the tribes who worship Amaterasu.

So in this myth, Amaterasu and Susanoo gave birth to eight children, three girls and five boys.

The myth that Susanoo killed Yamata no Orochi and obtained the sword of Ame-no-Kusu and Hime-Ki-inada is also related to Amaterasu, which seems to prove that Amaterasu is also a goddess of the earth in the form of a snake.

In the myth of Amaterasu and Susanoo, Amaterasu and Susanoo gave birth to eight children.

In the myth of Susanoo and Yamata no Orochi, Hime-Ki-inada is the eighth daughter of her parents, and Yamata no Orochi is a snake demon with eight heads and eight tails.

Eight - is the number that connects Amaterasu with Yamata no Orochi and Hime-Ki-inada.

In the long history, the coastal tribes who worship Susanoo must have launched many wars against the inland residents to survive and seize food and women.

Amaterasu, the sun goddess, is the patron saint of inland residents.

The eight-headed, eight-tailed Yamata no Orochi is a degraded image of Amaterasu.

The eight-woman, Kiinadahime, who married Susanoo --

The name "Rice Field" symbolizes food.

The name "Hime" symbolizes women.

Amaterasu, who gave birth to three daughters and five sons with Susanoo, is Kiinadahime, who married Susanoo.