Chapter 2023: Patricide Curse (Double Monthly Tickets on the Last Day! Please Give Me Monthly Tickets!!!)

On the other side, in the Pantheon.

Today is a special day. The parliament that has been meeting and enjoying all day has finally quieted down today. The magnificent palace has also dimmed. The top floor of the almighty city that seemed to never have night has also ushered in the sunset today.

The once noisy and magnificent palace has finally retreated from the glitz and extravagance.

Finally, there is some solemnity and solemnity.

In the deepest part of the hall, several primitive torches were lit. Zeus lay on the soft bed with his upper body naked. There were beautiful fairies around him. They were cleaning Zeus's wounds. The golden blood flowing from his chest was collected.

The fairies were cautious, fearing that Zeus would be hurt again.

On the contrary, Zeus didn't care... Although this guy was a bastard, he had always been very tolerant of beautiful women.

After Zeus suppressed the rebellion of the Titans and the Giants, the gods ushered in a peaceful period. During this time, there was no war, and everything was so beautiful. As the old saying goes: When you are well fed and warm, you will think about lust. Then the gods began their own journey of hunting for beauties, and the most famous one among them was the king of gods Zeus. For the Greeks, Zeus was the outstanding father of fertility, the power of world reproduction, and the embodiment of reproductive ability. No matter whether it was a man or a woman, as long as Zeus liked them, they would definitely not escape the fate of pregnancy. (Pregnancy is for women, and men basically become servants after they are taken in) Zeus's way and means of pursuing women are absolutely textbook-like. Because he is a god, he can change into anything, whether it is a person or a lifeless stone, etc., which are all methods commonly used by Zeus.

This guy is very willing to use means to pursue women, and the most talked about thing is his unpredictable nature - Zeus will transform into various animals and have (relations) with women.

This version of Quapel is very decorative. Europa rides on the back of a bull, and Zeus takes Europa away, crosses the Aegean Sea and escapes to Crete, and then they fall in love. The sunset is warm orange and the sea is blue. This scene is so beautiful. The painter used bright and lively colors to render the free and unrestrained, romantic and lyrical mood of the graceful human figures with different movements. Europa was the beautiful daughter of Agenor, the king of Phoenicia. When the romantic Zeus saw her playing on the beach, he was once again out of control. Zeus transformed into a white bull and charmed Europa with his beauty and gentleness. When Europa climbed on his back, he immediately rushed into the sea and kidnapped Europa.

With the help of the goddess of love Aphrodite, the famous Greek beauty Leda became the wife of Tyndares, the king of Sparta, and was placed on an island almost isolated from the world by her husband - but for Zeus, isolation was completely useless. As long as he liked her, there was nothing he couldn't get. It happened that Aphrodite was resentful that the King of Sparta did not thank her for this marriage, so the two of them performed a play together: while Leda was bathing in the lake, Aphrodite turned into an eagle and chased Zeus, who had turned into a swan, and flew to Leda. Leda felt pity for it and held it in her arms and caressed it. Aphrodite took the opportunity to cast a spell, making Leda pregnant, giving birth to four eggs, and hatching several swan-like children.

There are even golden rain... This is really hard to hold.

But Zeus likes this, and he does everything he can.

But he doesn't have such good patience for men, and usually just snatches them away.

Ganymede, the son of the King of Troy, was young and beautiful, and was loved by Zeus, so he turned into an eagle and took him to Mount Olympus, letting him replace the goddess of youth, pour wine for himself, and flirt with him openly. After Hera found out, she turned the beautiful boy into a water bottle in anger. The sad Zeus had to seal his soul in the sky, and it became today's Aquarius.

Well, he just took him away...

He is quite tolerant of women... especially beautiful women.

So even if he was hurt by these fairies, he would just grin and not scold or do other extreme behaviors.

"Father... are you really that old?"

A strong man appeared in the shadows where the firelight could not reach. However, his tone was not very good. It was cold and without a trace of warmth.

"Oh, you are finally here. I thought you would never come to see me, your father, in this life." Zeus seemed very tolerant of the visitor.

"Since you are not dead, why do you let me come? Or are you finally willing to accept the curse and let me kill you with my own hands?" The strong man's words were still unpleasant.

"No! I haven't lived enough, Hercules."

Zeus was obviously very unhappy with this topic.

Being killed by one's own children has always been the most terrible curse of the Greek gods. Fortunately... Generally speaking, only the king of gods has this treatment. It's hard to say about other gods.

After all, the first-generation king of gods Uranus has no brothers, so I don't know.

But the second-generation king of gods is a bit bad, his brothers and sisters are implicated.

Zeus' birth was not blessed and expected. He is the son of the second-generation king of the Titans, Kronos, and Kronos became the second-generation king of gods by overthrowing his father, the god of heaven Uranus. When he overthrew Uranus, the angry gods issued a curse to Kronos: to be overthrown by his own children. Sure enough, Zeus overthrew the rule of his father Kronos, but became another Kronos. His struggle for power is the same as that of human society: marriage, promises, enfeoffment, exile, imprisonment, and killing of the losers of the Titan War, and all those who dared to oppose him were thrown into hell.

So it is not certain whether other gods will also be affected by the curse. But Zeus is not going to escape!

In the end, he will still be killed by his own child.

In Greek mythology, the mother of the gods is Gaia, the mother of the earth. Although all gods are born by Gaia, the goddess Gaia does not have any substantial power. All power is in the hands of her son Uranus.

The god Uranus only has sexual desire. He rapes Gaia day and night, and in order to maintain his power, he binds the child in Gaia's body. So Gaia, who can't bear it anymore, decides to resist. She and Uranus' son Kronos stand up and say they want to kill Uranus. So Kronos cut off his father's genitals while his father was venting his lust on his mother.

The first interesting point is here: Uranus's genitals fell into the sea and turned into a beautiful goddess named Aphrodite. In other words, the goddess of love and beauty in the secular world was transformed from the JB of the man who raped his mother day and night (smiley face). Kronos, who overthrew his father, rescued his brothers and sisters and was supported by them to become the new king, but the god Uranus, who was overthrown by him, cursed him, saying that he would definitely be overthrown by his son. Then what did the new king Kronos do? He imprisoned his rescued brothers in hell, and swallowed his own children after his wife (also his sister) Rhea gave birth to them. Rhea was in great pain. In order to protect her children, she exchanged the children for stones when the sixth child was born, causing Kronos to swallow a stone, and she sent Zeus to a small island. When Zeus grew up, he wanted to rescue his brothers and sisters, so he designed with the help of the goddess of wisdom Metis to make his father Kronos spit out the children and drove Kronos out of the palace. Later, with the help of his brothers and sisters, he defeated Kronos and his men and became the new king.

After that, Zeus began to pursue Metis, the goddess of wisdom, madly. After Metis refused in every possible way, she was forced to become Zeus' first wife. After Zeus chased Metis, he did not stop. He molested and sexually assaulted goddesses and women like a stallion, and married several more wives. Some goddesses avoided Zeus. In order to get women, Zeus would disguise himself as various people, and even turn into animals to approach the target, and sexually assault them when they relaxed their vigilance. Most women would be abandoned by Zeus once they became pregnant.

In addition to ordinary beauties, his targets also included his own sisters, aunts, and even his daughter Persephone, who he was obsessed with. He turned into his son-in-law Hades, slept with his daughter, and made his daughter pregnant and gave birth to Melinoe.

Back to Metis. There was an oracle saying that if Zeus and Metis gave birth to a son, the son would overthrow his rule, and if a daughter was born, the daughter would become Zeus's left arm and right arm. So Zeus was afraid and swallowed his wife, the goddess of wisdom Metis, who was already pregnant and pursued by him madly (smile.jpg).

After swallowing his wife, Zeus began to have a headache, so Hephaestus, the god of fire, took an axe and split Zeus' head open. From Zeus' head, he picked out a goddess holding a weapon and wearing armor - Zeus' daughter, the god of war Athena, was born.

Of course, gods will not die after their heads are split, so Zeus is still alive, and the goddess of wisdom Metis will always stay in his head and become the source of his wisdom (eat it all, applause).

There is also the story of Hephaestus. The originally ugly god of fire Hephaestus became a cripple. Hephaestus is also the god of forging and craftsmanship. In order to avenge his mother, he made a chair to trap Hera and made several requests.

One of them was to let Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, marry him.

Under the pressure of the gods, Aphrodite was forced to marry the ugly and lame god of fire Hephaestus, but she did not love this man and was unwilling to do so, so she cheated on Hephaestus's brother, the god of war Ares, and was unwilling to see the god of fire Hephaestus. Some people may think that although Hephaestus is ugly and lame, he may be a pitiful and honest man. Then we can see the character of Hephaestus from one thing: once, when the god of war Athena went to Hephaestus to order something, Hephaestus began to court Athena, but was strongly rejected by Athena. However, in the process, Hephaestus touched Athena's thigh. After Athena wiped it with wool, she threw the wool on the ground, causing Gaia, the mother of the earth, to become pregnant and give birth to the king of Athens (Gaia was unlucky enough to suffer this unprovoked disaster).

Because the goddess of love and beauty did not want to see him, Hephaestus went to his mother Hera for help. Hera gave Hephaestus a thorny ring engraved with roses representing love, and asked Hephaestus to give the ring to Aphrodite to tell her that love (?) is responsible and she must be loyal to Hephaestus.

So with the help of the goddess of marriage, Aphrodite accepted Hephaestus, the god of fire. (Everyone is happy, smile)

Seeing this, we can probably conclude something: gods have desires just like humans.

The god-king's fear comes from the threat of his brothers, especially his sons. He is afraid of being overthrown by his own descendants. This fear is deeply rooted in the brain and passed down from generation to generation. They are happy to sow seeds, but they have no extra love for their children, while most goddesses love their own offspring. Although Gaia gave birth to all the lives of gods, she could not control the real power. She could only overthrow her husband by uniting her own flesh and blood and descendants. She loved her children, but she would also be insulted by her descendants. These male gods like to conquer women with sex, but this does not mean that they love women. They just enjoy the process of chasing women. They can transform into birds, beasts, men, and women to seduce women, and even sexually assault women in these forms, and then They left after getting pregnant. Loving your beauty ≠ loving you, and they think this is normal. Zeus can easily fall in love with any beautiful woman, but this love is not pure or holy, and has no aura. It only means that he has the urge to have sex with that beautiful woman. Of course, if a man is beautiful enough, even a straight stud like Zeus will take action. If they meet a powerful woman, such as Hera, they may be impressed by her and give her some power, but this does not prevent them from continuing to bully and hunt other women.

Even Hera, who insisted on monogamy, succumbed to her husband. But when a woman is controlled by a man, but cannot control him, and she is abiding by the rules, but the other party is living and drinking, this sense of powerlessness about fate and the pain brought by her husband The uneasy feeling that her status could be replaced at any time can easily make her throw her anger at a third party and become jealous and vicious, even if she is as powerful as Hera. Men don’t care too much about jealousy and jealousy among women. He may even find it exciting and enjoy it (for another gender, everyone who reads romance novels also likes to see plots where jealousy kills love rivals. If you think about it, it’s the pleasure of Zeus. Zeus occasionally Helping her lover should be no different from the heroine's mentality in persuading the jealous hero in the novel.

But it is not difficult to see that in these stories, women are tragic characters. Some people may ask, doesn’t Zeus have a daughter whom he truly loves and loves? Yes, it is said that Zeus's two favorite daughters, one is Athena, because she is wise and powerful, and is Zeus's right-hand man. The other is Artemis, the goddess of hunting. For this goddess, Zeus simply loves her. It should be mentioned that these two goddesses are both virgins, especially Artemis. She promised to Zeus to be a virgin forever. They are also the gods of unmarried girls. Artemis also likes pure girls best. Unmarried girl. It is said that Zeus liked Artemis so much that he responded to her requests and even promised to make Artemis' status no less than that of any of her other siblings. Just think about it, which man doesn’t love a girl who is always pure? (There should be a smiley face here)

So the question is, why do so many sons kill their fathers in Greek mythology? In Greek mythology, the most famous story of human patricide is probably Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother. The king abandoned his son because of the prophecy that "the son will kill his father and marry his mother." The abandoned child Oedipus When he grew up, he killed his father and married his mother without knowing it. Later, the male Oedipus was called the Oedipus plot. Oedipus is much more shameless than the several powerful god-kings in Greek mythology. At least the prophecy was fulfilled without knowing it, and he was in pain after knowing the truth. But in Greek mythology, so many patricide stories also represent the core point of another patriarchal society-the seizure of power.

In all the patricide stories, the son successfully obtained the father's power and various resources (including female relatives), and their uneasiness came from the fear that their brothers or even their own sons would take away their power. The root cause of patricide is the struggle for power, which is the foundation of a patriarchal society. What men with power want most is women (sexual resources), which is the foundation of the struggle. In order to protect their resources from being robbed, they are afraid of the same sex, and the loss of resources is the root of their fear.

At the Pantheon, such conflicts still exist.

Yes, Zeus does allow his children and himself to enjoy power, but the problem is that he still holds the highest power... and the most terrible thing is that he holds it for too long!

His children couldn't wait any longer.

Among them, Hercules stands out the most.

He knew from the beginning that he was the one to kill Zeus.

But the education Hercules received since childhood prevented him from directly rebelling.

He can only wait!

He didn't know what he was waiting for, but he knew that when the opportunity came, he must overthrow Zeus. This is his mission and his long-cherished wish.