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Volume 3: A blow of destiny, the king appears Chapter 95: The Birth of the Gods

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    <> Christianity quotes Greek mythology for enlightenment: (¡®In every myth there is the filth of Daedalus¡¯).  [The learned Sudeis believed that the figure of Daedalus corresponded to Pasiphi's 'evil interest' in Poseidon's bull: since the origin and fault of these demons were attributed to Daedalus, while he  They hate him, and so he becomes the protagonist of Proverbs.

    The Mycenaean civilization discovered by the legendary German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in the 19th century and the Minoan civilization in Crete discovered by the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans in the 20th century are both examples of a large number of  The questions raised by Homer provide explanations and provide archaeological evidence for many mythological details about gods and heroes.

    Unfortunately, the Mycenaean and Minoan Linear b scrolls, the monumental evidence of myth and ritual, are mainly used to record inventories, although quite a few names of gods and heroes appear in them.

    The geometric designs of pottery from the 8th century BC are often inspired by the siege of Troy or the adventures of Hercules.

    The importance of the visual expression of these myths is shown in two aspects: first, many Greek myths appeared on pottery much earlier than written records, such as The Twelve Labors of Hercules, Only the Capture of Cerberus Alive  This item has written records at the same time as the pottery, and other written records are later than the pottery paintings; secondly, the pottery designs sometimes even depict some myths or scenes that do not have written records.

    Sometimes the first-hand record of a mythological story comes from geometric art, and by the time it appears in written records, it is often centuries later.

    During the Archaic period (c. 750 to 500 B.C.), the Classical Hellenistic period (c. 480 to 323 B.C.), and the Hellenistic period (c. 323 to 146 B.C.), Homeric and many other myths  Scenarios abound, and these are corroborated by written records.

    Greek mythology has continued to change in different eras in order to adapt to its cultural evolution.  In the written records that still exist of Greek mythology.  When Greek politics changed, it was also the end of an era in Greek mythology.

    The early inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula were an agricultural population who believed in animism. They believed that any natural phenomenon had a corresponding soul.  Eventually, these imageless souls were personified and gradually formed the gods of local mythology.

    When the northern tribes invaded the entire Balkans, they brought with them their pantheon of gods representing conquest, strength, valor and violent heroism.

    The gods of other agricultural worlds were conquered by these more powerful gods, became subordinate to them, or were replaced entirely.

    After the middle period of the Archaic period.  The growing number of myths about the connection between male gods and male heroes represents the development of male homosexuality in ancient Greece, which probably became popular around 630 BC.

    At the end of the 5th century BC, poetry mentioned that every male god (except Ares) had at least one adolescent boy as their male companion.  Many legendary heroes also have similar male companions.

    Early existing myths, such as the stories about Achilles and Patroclus, all mention similar plots.

    First, the poets of Alexandria, and then the myth collectors of the early Roman Empire, tended to use this method to depict the characters in Greek mythology.

    The achievement of an epic is to create an entire storyline while developing a new mythological chronicle.  Therefore Greek mythology actually presents the process of the world and human development.

    Because some of the contradictions in these stories prevent a complete timeline, only a rough chronology can be seen.  From this, the ¡®history of the world¡¯ in mythology can be roughly divided into three or four eras:

    1. The origin myth or the age of the gods ("Theogony", "The Birth of the Gods"): the world.  origin myths of gods and humans;

    2. The era when gods and humans freely mixed: the story of the early interactions between gods, demigods and humans;

    3. In the Age of Heroes, the activities of the gods became more restricted.  The last and greatest heroic saga is the story of the Trojan War and its aftermath (some researchers divide it into a separate era).

    Because the mythology of the previous period focused more on the Age of Gods, Greek authors in the ancient and classical periods preferred the Age of Heroes.  Having gained an explanation for the formation of the world, they established a chronicle and record of human achievement.

    For example, the heroic epics "Iliad" and "Odyssey" belittle the absolute rights of God.  Under the influence of Homer, "hero worship" became an important component of spiritual life, manifesting itself in the separation of the realm of the dead (heroes) from the realm of the gods.  That is to say, it separates Chthonius from Olympus.

    &nbsp; In "Works and Days" Hesiod divided the human century into five parts: gold and silver.  Bronze, Hero and Black Iron.

    These ages are divided according to the products of the gods: the Golden Age belongs to the reign of Cronus, and the next age comes from the reign of Zeus; Hesiod places the Heroic Age after the Bronze Age; and finally the Black Iron Age.  The poet himself lived in an era that he believed was the darkest era, because the demons brought by Pandora were rampant in the world, but hope was locked in a pot.

    In "Metamorphoses", Ovid followed Hesiod and also divided the human era into four.

    The Age of the Gods, the Origin of the Universe, and Cosmic Philosophy, see also: Greek Primordial Gods, Genealogy of the Greek Gods, and List of Greek Gods and Characters.

    ¡®Origin myths¡¯ or ¡®creation myths¡¯ are intended to describe humankind¡¯s concept of the universe and explain the origin of the world.

    The most accepted version now is Hesiod's description in Theogony: The world began with Chaos, a concept of chaos; then from the void came Eurynome, Gaia (Earth) and other major primitives.  Gods: Eros (love), Tartarus (hell) and Erebus (darkness);

    Gaia later split into a single-sex couple, Uranus (Sky), who also became her husband; they gave birth to the first generation of Titans, six males: Coos, Cleos, Cronus, and Xu.  Perion, Iapetus and Oceanus and six women: Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Rhea, Theia, Themis and Thetis;

    After Cronus was born, Gaia and Uranus never gave birth to any Titans. After that, three cyclops and three hundred-armed giants were born; Cronus ('the youngest and youngest of Gaia's descendants)  Cunning and the most terrible one 'castrated his father and became ruler of the gods and leader of all other Titans, his consort being his sister Rhea.

    The theme of the struggle between father and son reappears, this time with Cronus being overthrown by his own son Zeus.  Because Cronus betrayed his father, Cronus lived in fear of his children, fearing that he would get the same result.

    So whenever Rhea gave birth, he would devour his children.  Rhea hated him for doing this and placed a stone in Zeus's cradle for Cronus to eat.

    When Zeus became an adult, he gave Cronus a herb that caused him to vomit out all the other children he had eaten.  (Another theory is that Metis gave Cronus herbs and asked him to vomit out all his descendants, including Zeus.) Zeus challenged Cronus and finally seized the throne of the gods with the help of the Cyclops.  and imprisoned Cronus and the other Titans in Tartarus.

    Zeus was tormented by the same worries. When his first wife Metis predicted that she would give birth to a "god greater than himself," Zeus devoured her.

    Even so, Metis was already pregnant with Athena, and they made Zeus suffer until Athena flew out of Zeus' head, fully armed and ready to fight.
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