Greece: Age of Ascension

Chapter 187 The Rise of the New Generation
The flood receded, the dark clouds dissipated, and facing the devastated world filled with mud and fog, Deucalion, the son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha, the daughter of Epimetheus, fell into speechless silence one after another.

The two don't know how they should build a brand new society. If they only rely on childbearing, it is obviously difficult to restore the old view.

Because although it is a world with gods now, medical technology is very backward after all, and women face many difficulties in childbearing.

It may be okay to give birth to one or two, but if you want to give birth to a whole society, you may end up encountering ghosts after walking around at night, and you will easily have dystocia.

The key point is that Deucalion's small body can't stand such a toss.

The two looked at each other for a while, and both saw helplessness in each other's eyes. After hesitating for a while, Pila suggested, "Why don't we ask the gods for help?"

Her words awakened Deucalion. Yes, the gods brought destruction, but human beings were also created by the gods. If you pray to them, maybe things will turn around.

So, the two piously built an altar with stones, filled the gaps with mud to reinforce it, and found plump fresh fish in the puddles as sacrifices.

When everything was ready, the male and female couple knelt down and prayed devoutly, begging the gods for help.

Zeus curled his lips in disdain when he heard the sound, without even looking at it.

The Queen of Heaven, Hera, and other gods also saw the crude altar and the fish with a fishy smell, and all turned their heads away in disgust.

Only Themis, who represents law and justice, can't help but feel pity for the pity of human beings.

Smart, he has already understood the subtext of the god king: "Zeus is not as cruel as he imagined, if he wants to do everything right, he won't even keep these two humans.

In this case"

In front of the altar, Deucalion and Pyrrha worshiped devoutly and silently recited the names of the gods. However, after waiting for a long time, the sun fell from the sky to the west, but there was still no response from the gods. Yet?"

Thinking of what happened to human beings and the confusion about the future, the two men and women could not help but hug each other and weep.

At this moment, an ethereal voice suddenly sounded, "Don't cry, the future of mankind still needs you to continue, you should face all difficulties with strength."

Following this sound, Themis, the god of law and justice, slowly appeared on the altar in a burst of golden light. She bent down gracefully, held the delicious fish in her hand, and looked at the two humans with a smile.

"I am Themis, the god of law and justice, Deucalion and Pyrrha, you are already the last humans, and you should shoulder the important task of prospering the human race."

"But...but we..." the two faltered, blushing for a while, "but we really...can't have so many children."

Deucalion knelt down and said: "Great goddess, please give us and mankind a last bit of help. We are willing to build the most magnificent temple for you. We only hope that you can restore human prosperity again."

Hearing his words, the God of Law and Justice smiled slightly, and said: "If you want to make mankind prosperous again, you must throw your mother's bones behind your heads."

After all, Themis carried the two fishes and disappeared into a golden light, leaving only two bewildered humans looking at each other.

To throw the mother's bones behind the head?
What does this mean?
The two of them thought hard, but they still couldn't find a solution. In the end, their stomachs were growling.

So Deucalion decided to find something to eat first to fill his stomach.

He lifted his trousers and looked around in the mud and puddles, and soon found a few live fish, then ground them into flakes with stones, cleaned up the fish, and set up a flame to roast them.

The mouths of the two people were full of fishy smell, but their stomachs were also full. After a feast, they couldn't help rubbing their stomachs and rested contentedly.

"Mother Earth never disappoints her followers, this is truly the most satisfying meal I've ever had."

Pila rubbed her swollen belly, feeling very satisfied, but just as she finished speaking, a scream came from her ear, "Ah, what did you say?"

Deucalion sat up and looked at her with piercing eyes. Pyrrha scratched his head, not knowing why, "I said, this is the most satisfying meal I have ever had."

"No, it's the previous sentence." Deucalion grabbed his wife's shoulder and shook it vigorously.

Pilar blinked. "I said, Mother Earth would never."

Halfway through the speech, Pila couldn't help opening his eyes wide, "Throwing the mother's bones behind her head, do you mean??"

"Yes, yes, what are the remains of the earth?" Deucalion looked up and saw only high and low, undulating stones, so he hurriedly picked up a stone and threw it behind his head without looking at it.

Suddenly, a miracle happened! !
When the stone was thrown on the ground by his hands, it quickly rolled three times, and then, under the eyes of the two in disbelief, it turned into a tall man.

Deucalion couldn't help cheering immediately, "It's true, it's true!!"

Seeing this, Pyrrha hurried to try it too. She picked up the stone and threw it behind her without looking at it. Then, just like Deucalion did, the stone turned into a woman.

The two immediately solved the mystery, and happily picked up a pile of stones and threw them as they walked.

Following the actions of the two, the stone rolled three times on the ground, turning into men and women one after another.

These human beings transformed from stones are called "Leleji people".

In addition to these stone men, Deucalion and Pyrrha also gave birth to several children themselves.

The first is "Helen", the Helen people are also the famous ancestors of the Greeks.His sons became the famous ancestors of the Dorians and the Aeolians; his third son Sutos and his grandsons became the ancestors of the Achaeans and the Ionians.

The four branches of Helen's descendants were thus descended from Deucalion, and Greek heroes and royal dynasties were often mentioned as direct descendants of Deucalion.

At this moment, Deucalion and Pyrrha are as important as Adam and Eve in Christianity. They were admired by the Greeks, so that the Greeks traced their roots and regarded the Prometheus family and even the god of foresight as important. The father, Iapseus, god of souls and death, is regarded as the first ancestor of mankind.

This is like the theory of bloodlines. The higher one goes, the more noble the bloodline seems to be. Tracing back to the history of mankind, it seems that we are also descendants of Titans.

As for why there are Deucalion and Pyrrha in Greek mythology, and Adam and Eve in Christianity, the stories here are somewhat intriguing, because the rise of Christianity was slow, and later in order to reflect the greatness of God, the Greek stories were adapted and changed. After a while, he became God.

Even in the Norse mythology, it is written that the twilight of the gods, the new era, the final root has become God, and everything is Christians who have adapted all the stories in order to reflect the greatness of God.

If the Christians had conquered the East back then, perhaps the myths of the East would have been rewritten, and the Haotian Jade Emperor would have become the only God, and all paths are possible.

Now, let’s go back to the couple of Deucalion.

The two re-continued the blood of mankind by throwing stones. Through the accumulation of the previous generation, they taught new humans how to use fire and tools, and also laid the foundation for everyone to organize a new world.

In Epirus in the northwest of Greece, in a valley on the eastern slope of Tomaros, here is Dodona, where Deucalion led the emerging human beings and established a city-state.

In addition, there is a magnificent temple of Zeus.

This is the promise the two made to ask the gods for forgiveness. The temple is built of marble. The entire building is located on a foundation that is 205 meters long and 130 meters wide. The temple itself is 107.75 meters long and 41 meters wide. , a total of 104 Corinthian columns.Each stone pillar is 17.25 meters high, with a top diameter of 1.3 meters, and approximately 1.55 tons of marble are used.

This is a miracle, a miracle of human beings, but Zeus likes it very much. He often descends on the temple to enjoy the sacrifices in the temple.

Today, human beings are divided into males and females, multiply and expand in the world, build city-states, and establish countries.Ships and carriages, farmhouses and castles, culture and trade, merchants and markets, agriculture and economics, weapons and wheat appeared one by one.In short, human civilization was born.It was the age of kings and queens and princes and princesses, of hunters and warriors and shepherds and potters and poets.

The key words of this era are empire, slavery, war, trade and treaties, sacrifices, offerings and worship.

To say who has benefited the most from this catastrophe of human extinction, it must be Hades, the king of the underworld.

He once complained that there was nothing in the underworld, because Poseidon was spared, so that the construction of his palace became far away. Now, with the extinction of a generation of human beings, the entire underworld has become overcrowded.

As a result, the dog-headed Boros couldn't help recommending himself, wanting to serve in the underworld again, as the god of death.

Humanity is crowding to the confluence of the rivers Styx (hatred) and Acheron (pain).It was there that the sullen and taciturn Charon held out his hand to the dead for a fare across the River Styx.If they can't pay, the ghosts will have to wait 100 years on the river bank until the merciless Charon is willing to cross them.

In order to avoid being stranded on the verge of hell, it is customary for the people of the underworld to leave some money under the tongue of the dying person, that is, a small silver coin commonly called an opulus, to pay the ferryman so that the dead can be safe and sound. Quickly cross the River Styx.

Charon, too, was polite, and when he received the money, he would drag the dead aboard, prop up the rust-colored flat-bottomed boat or rowboat, and cross the murky waters to the disembarkation point.

In other words, before going to hell, the souls of the dead meet here first.

Once dead, mortals can never return to the earth.

These dead people will be sent to Paradise, an archipelago known as the Island of Happiness or the Island of God's Blessing, according to their good, evil, and achievements in life, such as heroes, upright people, and souls with part of the blood of the gods.

Rumor has it that the blessed archipelago is the Canary Islands or the Azores, or the Lesser Antilles, or perhaps even Bermuda.

Anyway, in short it is very happy, it is a heavenly existence.

And most people have no merits and no faults, and their lives are neither particularly noble nor despicable. They will stay in the Narcissus Plain forever, and their name is taken from the white narcissus flowers all over the mountains and plains there.

The days after death of these dead souls are very pleasant, because before arriving there, they have to drink the water of forgetfulness from the Leth River to live happily and indifferently forever, without being disturbed by worldly memories.

The sinners, the drunkards, the blasphemers, the perpetrators, and the immoral, suffer a worse fate.

The lesser sinners will roam the underworld, forever without feeling, power, or real awareness of their own existence.But blasphemers are unforgivable, and they will be brought to the Land of Punishment, between the plain of Narcissus and deep Tartarus.There, their sins were precisely matched to their corresponding torments, from which they could never escape.

In Greek mythology, several famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, Ixion and Tantalus, were imprisoned here.

With these souls, Hades' Palace of Hades can finally start construction. Most of the human beings of this generation are villains who are heinous. The evil gods of the underworld have no psychological burden to bully them. He also built temples for himself.

The empty underworld has thus become prosperous.

At the same time, with the passage of time, human beings also began to spread their branches and leaves, growing and multiplying everywhere.

Led by heroic leaders, people learned from the ancestor of mankind, Deucalion, and established city-states and countries in various places.

Looking at the human beings who have developed tenaciously again, Zeus has mixed feelings in his heart, but this generation of human beings is very good, because the previous generation of human beings is extinct, and every time this generation of human beings establishes a city-state, they must choose a god Come and worship, and build magnificent temples to it.

The Greek gods were always selfish. When a city-state was established, it chose to worship different gods, and this god regarded the city-state as his property.

They do not interfere with the normal development of the city-state, and even sometimes, they are willing to provide some help.

However, once they are angered, they will abandon this toy without mercy. Even if this city-state has served and accompanied each other for many years, the gods will also abandon them without mercy.

Or, once there is a dispute between gods and gods, they dare not do it themselves due to the majesty of Zeus, but they will instigate the city-states that believe in themselves to take the initiative to launch a war against the city-states under the name of another god, even if this war involves many deaths But the gods don't care at all, as long as they can vent their anger on them, all the deaths and sacrifices of human beings are worthwhile.

It may sound a little heartless, but God is like this, just like humans don't care about the life and death of ants, filling the cave with boiling water is just a child's play to God.

Humans don't care about the life and death of ants, and similarly, gods don't care about human life or death.

Unless, this person is so beautiful that he can attract the attention of Zeus.
(End of this chapter)