Chapter 1984: Love and Resentment (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket!!! Please Subscribe!!! Please Recommend!!!)

This person has never been liked and supported by everyone.

The more people like you, the more people will hate you, especially women. If a woman is very popular with men, she will definitely not be very popular with other women. Aphrodite is the most typical example.

If it were still the Pantheon dominated by the patriarchal society in the past, Aphrodite would definitely be hated by more goddesses.

So Aphrodite would join the female gods faction headed by Hera, otherwise her life would be really hard. You know, men are not only kind to beautiful women, on the contrary, men have no less malice towards beautiful women, and even more frightening.

After all, sometimes, beauty can also be a disaster.

Beauty is short-lived, and most beautiful women have a rough life. When there is not enough strength behind the beauty to support it, it is difficult for you to control your own destiny. When you always have enough beauty, you will even feel the malice of the world in all aspects. Because beauty is a resource, not power. If a girl who only has beauty is not smart enough, not wise enough, and does not have strong cognition, then others will use her beauty for her. If beauty has no support, then the more attention you take, the more malice you will bear. If you observe carefully, you will find that very few beautiful girls born in rural areas can be admitted to college. Even if they are admitted to college, even fewer can go on to further studies. The probability of a mediocre life is much greater than that of ordinary-looking people, because in the process of their growth, their psychological energy, attention, time, and energy have been constantly consumed by the people around them since childhood, and their appearance will affect the way people around them treat them.

The most typical example is the objects of the gods' cheating.

Many of the gods' cheating objects are actually mortals. But these girls did nothing wrong, and then they were targeted by a series of goddesses such as Hera, who regarded them as "fox spirits" who interfered with their marriages.

But the reality is that many of those girls have no choice at all.

Zeus himself had seven wives, in the order of marriage: 1. Medes, goddess of wisdom; 2. Themis, goddess of law and rules; 3. Eurynome, goddess of water, grass and pasture; 4. Demeter, goddess of agriculture and grain; 5. Mnemosyne, goddess of memory; 6. Leto, goddess of feeding; 7. Hera, queen of heaven.

He was not satisfied with 7 wives, because he was in charge of the sky and could see all the beautiful women in the world, so he had many extramarital lovers. There were 12 more famous ones, all of whom were beauties.

The first girl was called Io, the outstanding daughter of the Pelasgians, an early inhabitant of Greece. Zeus disguised himself as a handsome man and seduced her. The second girl was called Europa, the daughter of the king of Phoenicia (now Lebanon). Zeus disguised himself as a strong and handsome bull and abducted her to Europe. The third girl was called Pluto, but she was not a mortal woman, but the goddess of wealth. The fourth girl was Danae, the daughter of the king of Argos. Zeus turned into a golden raindrop and fell on Danae, and took possession of her. The fifth girl was Semele, the daughter of the king of Thebes in Greece. Zeus turned into a fish and tried to violate her bathing in the river, but failed. He then broke into the palace at night and took possession of her. The sixth girl was Aegina, the daughter of the god of the Asopus River. Zeus turned into an eagle and snatched her away. Then he built the city of Aegina and made their son Aeacus the king. The seventh girl was Antiope, the daughter of the king of Thebes in Greece. Zeus took advantage of her sleeping under a tree and violated her. The eighth woman was Leda, the queen of the famous Greek city-state of Sparta. Zeus turned into a swan and married her while she was bathing in the river. The ninth woman was Diya, the queen of the Greek Lapiths. Zeus turned into a stallion and chased Diya, and successfully captured her. The 10th woman was Alcmene, the queen of the Greek city-state of Thebes. Zeus took advantage of her husband's absence to fight and sneaked into the palace to possess her. The 11th girl was Laodamia, the princess of Lycia. Zeus also possessed her by deception. The 12th woman was Olympias, the queen of the Macedonian city-state in northern Greece.

These are just the more famous ones. Most of these women were not willing. They didn't even know that it was Zeus who violated them, and many of them ended up miserable. For example, Semele, the mother of Dionysus, the god of wine, didn't know that her partner was Zeus.

Semele was the daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia. She was a proud girl, but she was deceived by Zeus, the old bastard, but she really didn't know Zeus's true identity. You know, any girl who knew that Zeus liked them basically chose to avoid him. Not many girls wanted to be liked by Zeus.

Unfortunately, Hera still knew about this, so she turned into an old woman to help Semele. Semele was not wary of her, so she urged Semele to reveal her true identity. Semele also wanted to know who her man was, so she asked Zeus to reveal his true identity. Zeus, this scumbag, dared to agree to anything before he succeeded. So before he succeeded, he promised Semele that as long as it was Semele's request, he would do it no matter what.

The promise of the gods has an extraordinary effect, and no one can break the oath, let alone the gods.

Semele's mortal eyes could not bear the glorious image of Zeus, so, at that moment, she died!

So what did Semele do wrong?

She did not know the true identity of Zeus, and did not subjectively interfere in the feelings of the king of gods and the queen of heaven. But neither Zeus nor Hera gave her a choice.

There are many similar stories, and many girls fell into tragic situations because of Zeus and Hera.

This is the disaster brought about by beauty without power.

Aphrodite was actually the same. She was born with a yearning for freedom, but Zeus let her marry an old and ugly man. She couldn't resist.

If Aphrodite had not joined Hera's faction of female gods, her situation would probably not be much better than that of Semele.

She still has many enemies, which is why she has been suppressed by Athena among the internal factions. Although her philosophy is more in line with the tastes of those goddesses, she is not very powerful. At least not enough for Athena and Persephone.

Speaking of the Queen of Hades, she can be considered a pitiful person. Persephone had lived with her mother Demeter since she was a child, and had never considered marriage. Once, Persephone was picking flowers in Enna with the nymphs in the jungle. The earth goddess Gaia, with the tacit approval of Zeus, caused a daffodil to bloom on the earth. Persephone was unaware of it while picking flowers. Feeling far away from his friends, he was about to pick the seemingly harmless narcissus when the earth opened and four black horses appeared pulling the chariot of Hades. He forced Persephone into the carriage and drove. Sailed back to the underworld. Hades had fallen in love with her long ago, and carried out this plan with the acquiescence and help of Zeus. The kidnapped Persephone cried out sadly for her mother. When Demeter heard Persephone's cry for help, her heart was as sharp as a knife. She quickly put down her farm work and ran toward the cry, but at this time, Persephone Ersephone has long since disappeared. Demeter was extremely anxious and searched everywhere for her daughter's whereabouts. Therefore, everything on the earth stopped growing (Demeter is the goddess of fertility and agriculture). The sun god Helios saw everything and told Demeter (some say it was the spring nymph Aretu) about the whereabouts of Persephone. Sa revealed the truth to Demeter).

After Demeter knew the truth, she immediately found Zeus and asked him to order Hades to bring Persephone back to her immediately, otherwise she would continue to let the earth be barren. Finally, Zeus was afraid of the desolation of all things on the earth, so he sent Hermes to persuade Hades to return Persephone to Demeter. But before Hermes arrived, Hades tricked Persephone into eating four pomegranate seeds, which forced Persephone to return to the underworld for four months every year.

But this is all in the past. With the migration out of the earth, the status of the gods of Hades in their respective pantheons has been rising.

The Queen of Hades will naturally rise as the tide rises.

In addition, Hades had an unexpected fondness for Persephone.

She doesn't even care about finding a love interest.

Even when she and Zeus gave birth to a daughter, Hades ignored her.

Well, yes, Persephone also had an affair with Zeus, but what I want to emphasize here is that Persephone herself was not wrong in this matter.

The main reason is that the grandson of Zeus is not a good person. He secretly transformed into Hades and slept with Persephone. Zeus is so fierce. Any girl he sleeps with will definitely become pregnant, and his hit rate is very high.

Zeus transformed into Hades and united with Persephone at the mouth of the weeping river Cocytos, thus giving birth to Melinoe. Melinoe governs plots and ghosts, and often appears as a ghost, sometimes visible and sometimes disappearing, sometimes shining brightly in the darkness, attacking from the night.

Hades still didn't blame Persephone for this, and even treated Melinoe as his biological daughter. Therefore, myths and legends have always regarded Zeus and Hades as Melinoe's biological father.

But I don’t blame Persephone, and I didn’t say I didn’t blame Zeus.

Ever since, the relationship between Hades and Zeus became worse and worse.

Of course, the relationship between Hades and Zeus was not very good, otherwise Zeus wouldn't be so good.

I thought they had joined forces to overthrow their fathers and gain real power, but the three brothers had differences over whose turn it was to be the boss. After the great victory in the Titan War, Zeus and his brothers disagreed with each other and were full of conflicts over how to distribute the dominance of the world. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades all thought they could be the boss. Especially Hades, he has the best reason, because he is the eldest son!

He is the eldest brother of Poseidon and Zeus, while Zeus is the youngest.

But the other two obviously didn't think so. Zeus believed that he had the greatest merit. If it weren't for him, these brothers and sisters would still be in their father's belly! (When Zeus’ father Cronus defeated his father Uralus, the sky god, Uralus cursed Cronus that he would be overthrown by his own children. Cronus naturally did not want this to happen, so He simply swallowed all his children, but because his children were gods when they were born, He did not die even in the belly, but grew up normally. When Zeus was born, Zeus's mother Rhea placed a stone in the swaddling clothes to deceive Kroros, so Zeus survived and grew up. Later, he used poisoned wine to give Kroros unbearable abdominal pain and vomited all his brothers and sisters out at once)

As for Poseidon...this guy was just making trouble (meaning to cause trouble), so he also got involved.

Seeing that they were about to start a war again, Prometheus, who was full of wisdom, proposed to use lots to determine the dominance of the world. According to the results of the lot, Zeus was assigned to the sky and became a god. Poseidon was assigned to the sea and became the god of the sea, while Hades was assigned to the underworld and became the god of the underworld. As for the land, the three brothers shared it through negotiation. The three brothers were worshiped by Zeus, who ruled the sky.

But after this incident, Hades had no contact with other people. Others also intentionally or unintentionally distanced themselves from Hades. After all, Hades was right about one thing, that is, Hades was the eldest son, and Hades himself was also very strong. This led to Zeus being very taboo about Hades. As long as you look through the mythology, you will find that the stories about Hades are quite rare.

By the way, there is another very counterintuitive thing.

That is, there is no Hades among the twelve main gods of Olympus!

That's right, when many people think of Hades, they will unconsciously regard him as one of the twelve main gods, but in fact... he is not. (In ancient Greece, only the legends of a very few regions would include him in the twelve main gods, but he was not included in the mainstream)

It shouldn't be.

Hades is Zeus's biological brother, and the eldest brother. At the same time, he also commands the entire underworld and has great power.

You know, there is no heaven or hell in ancient Greece. People can only go to the underworld after death. The underworld is not completely different from heaven/hell, but it is not exactly the same. There is a glorious area in the underworld called Elysium, which is similar to heaven.

According to Hesiod, there is a dark or gloomy, tormenting area in the underworld called Tartarus, a pit under the ground that corresponds to Hades and is the home of Nyx. The underworld has special areas for various types of death, including the Nikolaus Plain, which is a boring place for ghosts. This last place is the main area for the souls of the dead in the underworld - neither painful nor pleasant, but worse than life.

Hades is not the god of death, but the god of the dead, the king of the underworld. Everything after death belongs to him!

So he has great power!

But there is no place for him in the twelve main gods.

It can only be said that Zeus did too much to guard against his brother.

This also led to Hades and the Olympian gods not having a good relationship.

It is also because of this that Hades himself has always turned a blind eye to the smuggling of people like Charon.

It's none of his business.

Hades has a good temper since he didn't give Zeus a hard time.

Then again, Hades didn't like Aphrodite. So even without the Queen of the Underworld, it was still very risky for Aphrodite to smuggle two strangers from the underworld. This is why Charon hesitated before.

But since he has the wine of Dionysus, Charon has nothing to say.

If Hades, the god of the underworld, really finds out, a bottle of wine of Dionysus can really fool him.