Chapter 1988 Golden Network (Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket!!! Please Subscribe!!! Please Recommend!!!)

All gods have their own followers, but a long time ago, only the gods of Hades had no followers... There was no other way, they were in charge of the dead, how could the dead have followers?

So even though Hades ruled the entire underworld, he actually didn't have many subordinates at all. Unlike other gods, Athena had her own city-state of Athens, Ares had his own city-state of Spartacus, and Apollo had even more city-states (although modern people are more familiar with Athens and Sparta, in fact, many ancient city-states at that time were dominated by Apollo beliefs, and Apollo was widely believed), and even Artemis had her own city-state of Ephesus.

Poseidon was even more awesome, he had a continent - Atlantis. Zeus didn't have a specific family, but that was another situation, he was the king of the gods, so basically every city-state would serve him.

Only Hades had only one fucking temple. (In Eleusis, northwest of Athens, there is a cave, which is said to be the dividing point between the underworld and the human world. But this is not the only way to the underworld. There were many entrances to the underworld in ancient Greece. These things are somewhat contradictory. The residents of each place swear that we have an entrance to the underworld here. And this place is of great significance to the ancient Greeks. In fact, experts have inferred from the relics here that this was once a temple. From the reliefs and texts on the stones, it is inferred that this temple was dedicated to Hades. You must know that there are almost no temples dedicated to Hades.)

Not to mention the city-state.

But after leaving the earth, the gods of the underworld also began to have their own city-states.

In this way, there will be a stable belief, and you can expand your followers.

What do you say about followers? They are a bit between mortals and demigods, and are essentially the thugs of gods. These are also the private soldiers of their respective gods. They are all creatures shaped by the power of gods. They are not as noble as demigods, but much stronger than mortals.

They are the main force of the gods.

After all, demigods are still very precious.

But how can I say it? As for mortals, not many people are close to death. The most typical example is that among the folks, there are definitely more people who worship Guanyin, the Goddess of Childbirth, than those who worship the King of Hell. Compared with death, everyone likes the birth that represents life.

So Chinese gods and goddesses must be very popular if they are associated with childbirth. In fact, many Chinese gods and goddesses are related to childbirth, such as Guanyin, the Goddess of Childbirth, Zhang Xian, Bixia Yuanjun, and Tudigong and Tudipo are also responsible for childbirth. By the way, there are some gods who are not related at all, but can also give birth, such as Maitreya Buddha... Maitreya Buddha is obviously the future Buddha, and others are serious Buddhist gods, but when he came to China, he was actually related to childbirth!

In addition, there is the City God, who has a wide range of business, managing half of the things in heaven and all the things on earth. You can also ask the City God for things like childbirth...

But look at the King of Hell, the King of Hell is of course important in folk mythology. But you can see that his temples are very few. (There are still temples for Hades, but compared with the temples of other gods, there are much fewer)

The situation is similar in the world ruled by the Olympian pantheon. Compared with the previous situation of Hades, where neither his grandmother nor his uncle loved him, there has been a breakthrough. Even if there are no temples dedicated to the gods of the underworld in many places, there will be many shrines. Some places with strong death beliefs will also have large temples such as the Palace of Hades.

This also leads to the fact that the number of Hades' troops is relatively small among the gods. Hades, the king of the underworld, is like this, not to mention the Queen of the Underworld.

Although the Queen of the Underworld has many divine positions, she is generally a pendant of Hades. Sometimes people will put up statues of the Queen of the Underworld when serving Hades.

The image of Persephone reflects her duality. As the female ruler of the underworld, she is depicted as a majestic and cold queen of the underworld who holds a torch in one hand and a pomegranate in the other, and is with Hades, the god of the underworld; as the goddess of the harvest, she is depicted as a beautiful girl holding ears of grain, or picking flowers in the meadow with Artemis and Athena. When Persephone returns to the underworld, everything on earth withers, and when she returns to the earth and is with her mother, everything revives, which is a symbol of rebirth and death. The offerings people make to Persephone, the goddess of the underworld, are black, sterile cows. In ancient Greece, there was no temple dedicated to her alone.

Persephone and Demeter, the two goddesses, have always been worshipped together. In Eleusis, the common worship of these two goddesses has the nature of a secret festival. With the further development of religious concepts, the two harvest goddesses began to be regarded as the founders and legislators of settled life that is inseparable from agriculture. In Athens, people called Demeter and Persephone "Thesmophora (legislator)" and believed that they were the protectors of marriage and family relationships. In autumn, a festival dedicated to them was held - the Festival of the Goddess of Legislation.

For the ancient Greeks, after Persephone became the wife of Hades, the god of the underworld, she changed from her previous innocence to cold-bloodedness and was extremely terrifying. Persephone had great power in the underworld. She commanded the demons and monsters in the underworld and cut off the last connection between the dying and the living. Persephone was also the embodiment of a dark magic power. She ruthlessly pulled all life into the embrace of the dark abyss underground, so people called the tomb "Persephone's room". Therefore, the ancient Greeks did not dare to call her by her name, but only wanted to call her "Kor" (meaning girl). Her story is also the background of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Legend has it that this ceremony allows participants to dine with the dead legendary heroes in front of the terrible Persephone, thereby gaining eternal life.

[The Eleusinian Mysteries is the annual initiation ceremony of a secret sect located in Eleusis in ancient Greece. This sect worships Demeter and Persephone. The Eleusinian Mysteries are considered to be the most important of all the secret worships in ancient times. These worships and rituals are kept strictly confidential, and the initiation ceremony attended by all believers is an important channel for believers to communicate directly with gods in order to obtain the protection of divine power and rewards in the afterlife. Even now, this ceremony is still circulated in many worlds.

In short, Persephone does not have a separate temple, so her number of followers is particularly small.

Now it is not easy to meet a man who dares to destroy the temple of Aphrodite, the bitch, for his mother, and he seems to be very good. So Melinoe plans to bring him directly to his mother, let his mother personally give him eternal glory, and let him fight forever for the Queen of the Underworld (this is a lie, after all, even the gods can't make themselves eternal, let alone their followers).

At least Melinoe thinks this reward is absolutely enough.

Although going to the Almighty City is great, it is the ultimate dream of almost all believers of the gods in the Pantheon. But in comparison, those fanatics are still more willing to serve around their own gods.

Since the man in front of him is a fanatic of his mother Persephone... there is no doubt about this. After all, for the sake of the gods he believes in, people who are willing to tear down the temples of hostile gods, what else can they be but fanatics?

It is impossible for the city-states ruled by many gods to be harmonious. All mortals are driven by desires, and this is even more true in the city-state era. The city-state era is a huge competition of the worst among the mob. Dictatorship, republic, aristocratic representative system, tribal union, family rule, in short, all kinds of ruling systems and methods can be found here. At the same time, the territory of the city-state cannot be too large, which leads to their very, very small ability to resist risks.

Often a flood can directly bankrupt a city-state, and a plague can only make a city-state disappear.

In short, in such an uncertain situation, it is almost impossible for everyone to develop the economy and productivity in a stable manner.

So war becomes the most commonly used option.

What if there is no food?

Steal the one next door!

What if we go bankrupt?

Steal the one next door!

Damn, the woman next door is so beautiful, what do you want to do?

Robbing the neighbor!

I'm in a bad mood today, what should I do if I want to find something to do?

Robbing the neighbor!

As a result, war is simply the most common daily activity under the rule of Olympus. But wars are so frequent that it is not uncommon to carry out massacres after the city is broken. But after the city is broken, it is very rare to destroy the temple and kill the temple priests.

In many cases, the temple itself exists as a temporary shelter.

No one will destroy the temple of the true God.

Because it will lead to very terrible revenge.

As I said, the Olympian gods are all very small-minded. If you accidentally offend him, you have to be careful of revenge, let alone overthrowing their temples?

This is a serious blasphemy! (In the movie Trojan War, Brad Pitt's Achilles chopped off the head of the statue of Poseidon with a sword, which is a serious blasphemy. In fact, this is impossible, because blaspheming Apollo is actually the same as blaspheming all gods. This is impossible. If Achilles really did this, his mother would be the first to stand up and kill him, because his mother is also a god, and she is in the same class as Apollo)

Generally speaking, people who do this will definitely be in big trouble, not only him, but also his family, friends and even the country will be in big trouble.

Even after they die, they will continue to be unlucky.

So there are only two types of people who dare to do this and really do this.

One is a madman.

There is nothing to say about this.

The other is a complete fanatic who thinks that the god he believes in is the greatest, and the rest are scum. For the enemies of his gods, it is even more revengeful to sacrifice their lives.

Such a good seedling, no reward is too much.

Melinoe had a good idea, giving Charon face without breaking the rules.

It was great.

But Charon suffered.

He was just making up a story, and even made up his own offspring. He did have offspring, but the problem was that Thor was a living person!

Regardless of whether he was his offspring or not, it was absolutely against the rules to let a living person enter the underworld. And Thor was also a god. Although they did not believe in gods, if the dead clothes on Thor were taken off, everyone could see that Thor was a god, and he was not a god of the Olympian pantheon. That would be fun!

If things go wrong, Charon might even be labeled as a traitor.

"No... I..."

It's hard to refuse, after all, Melinoe's intentions are good, and everything is made up by Charon himself. Others don't mean to make things difficult for you, they just go along with what you say, and then, it's a failure.

What's the big deal.

"What's wrong?" Melinoe didn't understand why Charon was hesitating.

Charon really didn't know how to explain it. If he had known this, he might as well admit to smuggling.

At this moment, a golden light flashed.

Melinoe and Thor were caught in a golden net.

And at the other end of the golden net.

Aphrodite grabbed the other end of the golden net with a smile on her face.

"Aphrodite!!!" Melinoe shouted.

The moment she saw Aphrodite, Melinoe understood everything, and at the same time, she turned her head and looked at Thor, who was confused, in horror.

From this moment on, Melinoe found Thor pleasing to the eye.

To be honest, Thor was not ugly, not only not ugly, but actually very handsome. And it was particularly in line with the aesthetics of Olympus, who, including the civilization derived from them, were standard visual animals.

They believed that a person's outer beauty was directly related to their inner beauty, that is, people who looked good had good moral character, while people who were "ugly" in people's eyes had lost their character. For example, beautiful ancient Greeks, especially men, were often described as "kaloskagathos", an adjective that combined "kalos" (meaning beautiful or handsome) and "agathos" (meaning good character or kindness).

In the evaluation of men, the focus of male beauty was on body shape. An athletic physique with round, firm muscles and low fat content was considered the most attractive. Thor just happened to be a big muscleman!

With a body of tendons, he was as fit as he could be.

Men with golden hair, plump lips and gleaming tan skin were considered the most beautiful in ancient Greece.

Well, Thor fits the bill perfectly.

The most important thing is that Thor has a big beard!

Mature men with beards are also a big plus! In ancient Greek culture, only elders and wise men were qualified to grow beards. Beards meant dignity and wisdom. The main reason for beards is endocrine problems, so: beards are momentum! The ancient Greeks fought in a similar posture to the Vikings. They were all a group of strong men with big beards, shields, and roaring.

The ancient Greeks believed that beards were sacred. The first strand of beard shaved by adult Greek men was dedicated to Apollo. Of course, this shaving ceremony was for future beards!

So a beautiful beard was very popular in ancient Greece!

So all of a sudden, Melinoe found that the man in front of him was completely in line with his aesthetic point!

Oh!

Why is this guy so handsome?