Hikigu's Godslayer Story

To study an ancient Greek god, we might as well start from its birth. After all, ancient Greek culture is a rising star. Before ancient Greece, the neighboring eastern world has gone through thousands of years.

Even North Africa predates it.

When it comes to the myth of Athena, nothing is more famous than her birth.

Because of this goddess who ended the tradition of inheritance of gods and kings in ancient Greek mythology, she should have been a male god, but in fact she became a girl, and she didn't have a mother.

In other words, her mother has a beard - Zeus has a beard like Poseidon, and successful men in those days seemed to be proud of a beard, whether they were gods or humans...

Of course, the biggest bright spot is that Ya wasn't born from below, but came out of her father's head, and she played yo-yo.

But it has to be said that this birth can largely reflect the power that Athena possesses.

There is no doubt about the profound influence of Near Eastern culture on Greece. The so-called "Orientalization Revolution" occurred in the early Archaic Age, and related comparative studies have already identified ancient Near Eastern themes that may be included in Greek mythology, such as The Hittite version of Julian's myth "The Throne of Heaven".

This Hittite myth may have inspired Hesiod, so much so that the succession myth between Uranus, Cronus and Zeus depicted in The Theogony is clearly distinct from this Near Eastern creation myth. Similarity, and the way Athena was born from the head is obviously derived from the way of birth of gods such as Kazar in West Asian mythology.

But that's not all.

In Mesopotamian mythology, the story of Inanna returning from the underworld to the sun may also be the predecessor of the myth of Athena's birth. The seven gates in the illusion are obviously the seven gates of the underworld in the myth of Inanna's seizure of the underworld.

This goddess is the main god of the sky and the earth. She is both a god of love and a god of war. As a god of war, she is similar to Athena in some aspects. For example, she also has an owl in her logo, and her great strength comes from her body. A variety of clothes and decorations, which can not help but reminiscent of Athena's attitude and characteristics as the god of war.

If most of the early myths are closer to the essence of gods, then when myths evolve and spread to later generations, although the information becomes complicated and difficult to identify, it can more completely reflect the abilities and corresponding postures of these gods.

In the story of Inanna returning to the sun, Inanna re-decorated various symbols of power to return the sun spectacularly, not only like the scene of Athena's fully armed and earth-shattering birth, but also involved a middleman - the same Enki and Hephaestus, the gods of craftsmanship, were the ones who helped the two goddesses to be reborn or born, which had to make Hikigu suspect that the so-called birth of Athena was also her posture when she was resurrected.

Because the word referring to Zeus' head in mythology also has the meaning of "mountain", and in Mesopotamian visual art and mythology, mountains often symbolize the underworld, so some visual arts have depicted Inanna Station On the top of the mountain, which symbolizes the underworld, it is used to indicate that Inanna transcended death and was able to "rise" from the underworld alive and return to the earth after going down to the underworld to die.

In this way, there is a more terrifying explanation of the way Athena was born from the top of Zeus's head - it is not the soft squat like in TV, but the unique unparalleled mode.

This girl is really fierce...

It was with this emotion that Hikigu had been sitting by the lake for several days.

But it wasn't a waste of time, he had basically figured out what was presented in the illusion.

The top of the mountain is the underworld, the head of Zeus, the owl and the snake are the important symbols of Athena. The female warrior died after breaking the seven gates. Inanna's expedition to the underworld is the process of the female warrior itself. The characteristics of the female warrior itself reflect that it is the ancient Greek medicine. The Scythian race described by the father Hippocrates in "Climate, Water and Soil", this race has produced a very famous other cultural impression for the world - the Amathon/Amazon female warrior group, and They are regarded as the descendants of the snake woman. Coincidentally, one of the many faces of Athena is the snake goddess, and the confluence of the Cretan snake goddess and the Mycenaean shield goddess is an important part of Athena, the god of war. source.

And the full moon in that sky, which undoubtedly represents Athena's ability as a virgin—not the physical features of a woman, but the completeness of life force, a description of the idea of ​​life force in ancient Greeks, like the moon Generally, you can restore your own vitality without relying on any external force, even the vitality of nature, just like the moon from the lack of the moon to the full moon.

The god of war in the image of the female warrior, the virgin goddess who is not attracted to the opposite sex, the invention and patron of civilized craftsmanship, the god of wisdom, the god marked by owls, the god of snakes, the guardian of the city, and born from the father to defend the male The goddess who oppresses women's rights, these are the eight faces of Athena that Bikigu can see, and he suspects that the other party has more faces.

It's scary baby...

Hikigu, who had been sitting for several days, suddenly burst out laughing.

Only by defeating such an opponent can you feel the value of being a godslayer.

He took out the Gorgon Stone and let go of the suppression.

On the stone, the suppressed Gorgon image was lost, and the snake hair waved again, and Hikigu could feel its anger and anticipation.

"I'm looking forward to it too..." he muttered to himself, then stood up.

After several days of his suppression, the stone was surging with divine power, calling out to its owner.

Magical tool, what a wonderful thing.

Like Hui Na's sword, like the bow he usurped from Di Jun, to be honest, he still hasn't figured out what these things are.

The invitation has already been sent, and it will depend on when the goddess responds.

He believed that Athena would not make him wait too long.

"Hachiman." A voice called from behind.

Hikigu turned around, not far away, Liliana was running over, she should have felt the vitality of the Gorgon Stone.

After all, she is a witch, and she is naturally sensitive to the breath of the mother goddess. Hikigu, who has watched TV, knows this.

Although he was very curious about the so-called hero of steel, the earth goddess in TV is a kind of big goddess, so what is "steel"?

He put away the Gorgon Stone and went up to it.

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PS: Ya Dian is coming soon. In that case, let’s go to a meeting first. In addition, I am inexplicable lazy cancer, so I will not check for typos...

Big data is on top, it's still a new update, if I read it wrong, you can hit me hehe.

A small note before the update tonight

I woke up this morning and saw a book friend in the book review area saying that the myth of yesterday's chapter felt a bit messy, so I'll explain it.

I also told you in advance that Athena’s magical transformation is the largest in this book, and it is also the most different from the original. Of course, the so-called magical transformation, the original also exists, and the essence of the magical transformation is in mythology after all. Based on the author's own understanding, the purpose is of course to serve the plot as the first principle.

For example, the core of the magic transformation of the original Godslayer is undoubtedly the Hero of Steel and the Earth Goddess. The latter is good to say, the former should not have this special category in the study of mythology. I don’t know much about the Japanese school. In terms of schools, our views rely on Western academic circles. For example, the Great Mother Goddess I wrote about is the product of the prehistoric Great Mother Goddess worship. The time division is almost the period of the feminist society before the Bronze Age. The Mother Goddess of Earth is the Great Mother Goddess with the attributes of land as the main goddess, and I have written about Hator in the old edition. I personally guess that the predecessor should be the Great Mother Goddess with attributes of the sky, as well as the Xi who is indirectly mentioned in this book. He is the Chinese goddess of the sun.

Going far, the last chapter is not really a summary, because the complexity of Athena is second to none in Greek mythology. There are five large-scale source directions alone, surrounding the entire ancient Mediterranean world, and she is not After one or two fusions, she is actually a brand-new god born from the hands of the ancient Greeks. Her predecessors come from different places, and there have been fusions and evolutions in those places, and Athena is the most special place. It is that, compared with other main gods of the Olympian religion, she is not a completely imported product, and the local gods also occupy a very important part. As the representative of the local national spirit to surrender and maintain independence, she has a strong political character in the world, so She belongs to a god who is difficult to cover for a while, or even once or twice in the plot, so she can only take it slowly, and in the last chapter, I can only give a general idea, and I have already mentioned the eight faces in detail. Name which eight, and then be a little more specific about her resurrection ability. In fact, this goddess can almost play the book to the end, because she has too many abilities and is strong enough. She should have replaced her. Zeus became the king of the ancient Greek gods. In mythology, she is almost equal to Zeus in many times and is regarded as the appearance of Zeus.

In fact, I personally really don’t like the style of the original author in many places, probably because of preconceived notions, and many things are unacceptable, such as monkeys, Japan’s Fujian theory is completely unacceptable, and Osiris’s so-called land god theory is also I can't accept it, everyone should be able to see it, I rarely write about gods according to the original author's settings.

That's it for Athena's explanation. I was really touched when I saw that there are book friends in the book review area who comforted us and put our work first.

However, the update is still the same as what was said in the sticky post. I will add as many votes and rewards as I have. It is different from the basics. Even if the added part cannot be completed on the same day, I will make it up. Of course, if there is any addition. , I just try to ensure that there are basic updates. Even if there is still time on that day, I probably won't update it. At most, it will be used as a manuscript. I hope everyone understands in this regard. After all, I am still not on the shelves. Write, with no income, I'm going to allocate my time to more important things.

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