Mount Olympus
Once upon a time, the Twelve Gods of Greece lived on Mount Olympus, and people could not climb it. Mount Olympus is magnificent and stands among the mountains of Greece. In winter, snow-capped peaks shine in the sun; In summer, the valley is shaded by trees. Every day, when the sun rises in the east, the dawn first shines on the peak of this holy mountain; When the sun goes down, the silver moon rises from the east, and the brilliant peak of Olympus is covered by sunset. Sometimes, large dark clouds will float from all directions to the hillside of this mountain, so the valley is dark, the wind blows hard and it rains heavily.
Olympus Mons is a sacred and steep mountain, where the great gods chose to build their palaces and rule the world. Above the sea of clouds, there is a colonnade, and in front of the colonnade is a garden with strange flowers and herbs. Strong winds have never reached this paradise, and there has never been a storm over these rock-solid palaces. The top of the mountain is always sunny, sunny and full of flowers.
On this splendid Mount Olympus, every great god has his palace. The most magnificent is the palace of Zeus, the king of gods. Every morning, when Aurora [Aurora: Leona in Greek mythology. When you open the Tianmen with your rosy fingers and let out the sunshine, the gods on Mount Olympus gather in their leader's palace. Zeus, their supreme commander, sat on a golden throne and received them in the largest hall of the palace. The gods sat around Zeus, just like a family around their father. They enjoyed eternal joy and infinite joy together. They enjoy unimaginable happiness, as if they were in a never-ending banquet. Apollo with red face and brown curly hair [Apollo: the sun god in Greek mythology, also known as Phobos. Playing the harp for them, the melodious music intoxicated them. Beautiful charity [charity: the three goddesses of beauty] is the general name of the three goddesses of charm, elegance and beauty. They are the daughters of Zeus. They were named Aglaea, Ophrodine and Talia, which means brilliance, joy and flowers. They all like poetry, music and dance. Dressed in red and green, dancing on the grass and among the trees. Muse: A general term for nine goddesses of literature and science, all of whom are the daughters of Zeus and Menemostuni, the goddess of memory. They live in Helikon Mountain and are in charge of literature and science. The soft and sweet singing charmed the gods. During the intermission, the graceful herb [herb: the goddess of youth, the daughter of Zeus. Send exquisite food and fairy wine to Zeus' guests. She filled a golden cup with fairy wine and gave it to the gods of Olympus. These drinks make them happy, keep their youth and vitality forever, and never get tired of ruling the world and mankind. They get together every day like a family. When Knox [Knox: Goddess of the Night]. When the stars in the sky were lit, all the gods returned to their homes, and Olympus was silent. Only the family goddess Hestia, who kept the girl pure all her life, remained in the palace of the gods, because she was responsible for illuminating the apartments of the gods on Mount Olympus.
Every god does not live alone in his magnificent palace. They are like kings, and the twelve gods have their own numerous followers. Some are responsible for delivering orders, some are responsible for organizing banquets, pouring tea and water, and some are responsible for performing songs and dances. They let the immortals of Olympus spend their leisure time happily. As we said before, the task of Muse and Boai is to perform cultural programs for the gods in the auditorium, while Herb offers them exquisite food and wine during the intermission. The splendid Tianmen of Olympus consists of three young girls who remain chaste all their lives. ] responsible for taking care of. They are gentle, with gold necklaces around their necks and clothes decorated with flowers and fruits. After they opened the Golden Gate of Olympus, they ran lightly to meet the Muse and the Goddess of Love, and together they formed a choir to sing the coming of light. They coordinated the seasonal changes on the earth.
Hull's mother, themis or the goddess of justice, often sits beside the throne of Zeus. She enforces the law fairly. She used her wisdom to make gods [God: in Greek mythology, it refers to Zeus, the master of nature. Make all kinds of indisputable decisions. The charming Simis is the goddess in charge of the temple of Olympus and the whole universe. Zeus is not only the father of Olympus gods, but also the king of mankind. The related decisions and orders made by God at the suggestion of themis were informed by the goddess Iriz【Iriz: the rainbow goddess in Greek mythology]. To the gods. Iriz has a pair of wings and her feet walk as fast as a gust of wind. When she fell from the sky to the earth, the speed was like hail falling from the clouds to the ground. She repeated God's decision to people word by word, then spread a pair of rainbow wings and flew back to Olympus. She sat on the steps of Zeus' throne like a watchdog. Even in her sleep, she never untied her shoelaces or lifted her veil, because once God gave the order, she had to fly to the designated place immediately.
In addition to themis helping Zeus manage the universe, he also had his three daughters, Palka [Palka: the three goddesses in Greek mythology who were in charge of human destiny and life and death. ) but also help parents and supervise people to abide by the law. They live in a bronze palace not far from Hull. Every day they write everyone's fate on the wall of the palace and mark the route of the celestial bodies. Nothing can erase their handwriting on the wall. They are wearing white dresses decorated with stars, daffodils and wool balls. These three goddesses sit on the radiant throne, decide everyone's fate and weave the thread of life for everyone. The youngest of their three sisters is Closso, who is obsessed with spindles. Lacrose turns the spindle to spin the thread of destiny for everyone; Atropos decided the length of everyone's lifeline, and once she made a decision, she could not change it. According to Zeus' orders and everyone's merits and demerits, they decided the fortunes and misfortunes that everyone should encounter on the ground. Three sisters in Palka weave lifelines for people with white wool, golden fleece and black wool. White and gold represent happy days, and black represents unfortunate days.
This is how the great gods and small gods on Olympus spend their days. They usually live in this quiet environment, but only occasionally come to the earth. When they came to the earth, they all appeared in the form of people or animals.
The twelve gods on Mount Olympus are Zeus, Apollo, Ares, hephaestus, Hermes, Poseidon and Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Hestia, Artemis and Demeter.
Dionysus later came to Olympus, and Hades, the brother of Zeus and Poseidon, was always the king of the underworld.
Prometheus, who was condemned to suffer for a long time on the cliff, always wore an iron ring inlaid with a stone from Caucasus Mountain, so that Zeus could boast that his enemy was still locked in the mountain.
Prometheus
Heaven and earth were created, and the sea fluctuated between the two banks. Fish are swimming in the water. Birds are singing in the air. The earth is crowded with animals. But no soul can dominate the creatures all over the world. At this time, the prophet Prometheus landed on earth. He is a descendant of the god exiled by Zeus and the mother Gaia of the earth. Land god, the embodiment of the earth; It is also the god of harvest. Son of Partos, son of Uranus. He is alert and wise. He knew that the seeds of God were hidden in the soil, so he picked up some soil, moistened it with river water, and shaped it into the image of God, the ruler of the world. In order to give life to the clay figurine, he absorbed good and evil from the hearts of various animals and sealed it in the chest of man. In God, he has a friend, Athena, the goddess of wisdom. She was amazed at the son of Titan (son of Titan: Prometheus). In Greek mythology, the children of Caia and Uranos (gods) are always called Titan, which means descendants of Uranos. ) creation, because the soul and sacred breath passed to this half-life creature.
In this way, the first human beings were created, and soon they filled the earth and were everywhere. But for a long time, they didn't know how to use their noble limbs and the holy spirit blowing in them. They turn a blind eye, but they don't listen. They move aimlessly, like human figures in dreams, and don't know how to use everything in the universe. They don't know how to cut stones, burn bricks, carve rafters from trees, or build houses with these materials. They are like busy ants, living in a hole without sunshine, unable to tell the exact symptoms of winter. Spring is full of flowers and summer is fruitful. They don't have a plan for anything. So Prometheus came to help them, taught them to observe the rise and fall of stars, taught them to calculate, exchanged ideas with written symbols, taught them how to control livestock and let them share human labor. He trained horse-drawn carts and invented boats and sails to sail on the sea. He also cares about all other activities in human life. Once upon a time, sick people had no medical knowledge, didn't know what to eat and drink, or didn't eat and drink, and didn't know how to take medicine to relieve pain. People died tragically because there was no medicine. Now Prometheus showed them how to prepare drugs to treat various diseases. Secondly, he taught them to predict the future, explain dreams and visions to them, and watch birds fly by and make sacrifices. He instructed them to explore underground so that they could find minerals, iron, silver and gold. In a word, he introduced them to all the life skills and daily necessities.
Now, among the gods in heaven, there is Cronus, whose father recently exiled him [Cronus: Uranus was the first king of gods; Cronus overthrew his father, Uranus, and became the second generation God King. Zeus defeated his father Cronus and Titan and became the third generation king of gods. Zeus, who established his authority, began to notice this new creation-human beings. They are willing to protect mankind, but they demand that mankind obey them in return. In Mercon, Greece, on a designated day, man and God get together to decide the rights and obligations of human beings. At this meeting, Prometheus, who appeared as a consultant to mankind, tried to make the gods-as protectors-not give too much burden to mankind.
Zeus refused to give man the last thing he needed to complete civilization: fire. But Partos's clever son immediately figured out a way to make up for this defect. He picked a woody fennel and walked to the solar car. When it crossed the sky, he put the branch into the flame until it burned. He fell to the ground with this fire, and then the first pillar of fire in the jungle rose to the sky. Zeus, an angry man, stung his soul when he saw the flame rising from human beings and shooting into the distance.
Zeus turned to take revenge on Prometheus himself. He gave the sinner to Vulcan and the patron saint of ironmaking, hephaestus, the son of Zeus and Hera. ) and his two servants, Kratos and Biya, nicknamed rape. He asked them to drag him to the wasteland of Scartia. There, it faces the dangerous chán Valley: a dangerous and deep valley. ), with a strong chain to lock him in the Caucasus mountains hanging cliff. Hephaestus reluctantly carried out his father's orders because he loved the son of Titan. He is a descendant of God and his great-grandfather Uranus. He was forced to carry out cruel orders, but he said sympathetic words, which did not please his two cruel servants. So Prometheus was forced to be locked on the cliff, hanging straight, unable to sleep, and his tired knees never bent. Hephaestus said: "How many complaints and lamentations you will make, but everything is useless, because Zeus's will will will not waver;" Anyone who takes power from others and keeps it for himself is the most cruel! "
The prisoner's suffering is considered permanent, at least for 30 thousand years. He wailed loudly and shouted to the wind, the river, the void where there is nowhere to hide and the earth of the mother of all things to prove his pain, but his spirit was still very strong. "Whoever learns to realize the unshakable power of fate," he said, "must endure the pain given by the goddess of fate." Zeus's threats failed to convince him to explain his ominous prediction that a new marriage would corrupt and destroy the king of the gods. Zeus kept his promise. He sends a vulture eagle every day [jiù eagle: a genus of birds, raptor, with hooked mouth, strong eyesight and feathers on its legs, also called eagle. ) to peck at the prisoner's liver, but the liver grows back after eating it. This kind of pain will continue until someone voluntarily comes out to suffer for him.
As far as the judgment of Zeus is concerned, it finally came earlier than the intention of the son of Titan. After years of misery when he was hung from a cliff, Hercules (the most famous hero in Greek legend, the patron saint of sports). He did twelve great things, and the eleventh great thing was to seize the golden apple of Hera, the queen of God. When Zeus and Hera got married, Gaia gave them an apple tree with golden apples on it. In the process of searching for the golden apple, he passed by Scutia and released Prometheus. In order to find the golden apples in Hesperides, he came here and saw the descendants of God locked in the Caucasus Mountains. He wanted to ask him how to find the golden apple, but he couldn't help feeling sorry for his fate, because he saw the vulture perched on the unfortunate Prometheus' knee. Hercules put his walking stick and lion skin on the ground behind him, bent his bow and arrow, and shot down fierce vultures from Prometheus' liver. Then he loosened the chain, untied Prometheus and set him free. However, in order to meet the conditions stipulated by Zeus, he created Kai Long Xing Centaur [Kai Long Xing Centaur: Centaur is a nation in Greek mythology, and they are all centaurs. Kay Long Xing, one of the most famous people in Sagittarius, is a close friend of Hercules. Later, he was killed by Hercules' poisoned arrow and turned into Sagittarius by Zeus after his death. Make his body double. Although Kay Long Xing can claim eternal life, he is willing to give his life for Titan. In order to fully fulfill the judgment of Zeus, the son of Cronus, Prometheus, who was sentenced to long-term suffering on the cliff, always wore an iron ring with a stone from Caucasus Mountain, so that Zeus could boast that his enemy was still locked in the mountain.