[Greek mythology] The daily life of the master of the abyss

Although Hera's tone was mocking, Zeus had to pay attention to her words.

Hera will not aim at nothing, and what she said must be well-founded.

This is the first time that Zeus has not come to the world for hunting.

cough.

He came to a country called Arcadia, took the form of a mortal traveler, and said that he was from a very far away place, and was therefore entertained by King Lycaon.

Zeus did not come to a country casually, he specially asked Hermes to investigate the ungodly people.

Lycaon was the one Hermes found out.

He is an ocean goddess and the son of a human, but he has the blood of a god, not only does he not respect the gods, but even his fifty sons do not respect the gods.

But even pretending to be a human, Zeus did not dress up as a poor man, wearing a delicate and gorgeous short robe, holding a cane made of silver and precious stones, a bright and beautiful sword pinned to his waist, and a money bag hanging on the other side , it looks very...well, trenchant.

Otherwise, even guests from afar would not be entertained by the king.

"Are you the traveler?" Lycaon looked Zeus up and down, looked at his luxurious attire, and slightly softened his face, but his tone was still quite arrogant: "Welcome to Arcadia, I am the king here Lycaon."

But even though he was entertained, Lycaon has always been very arrogant. Zeus couldn't bear it, and directly stated his identity as a god.

Lycaon froze for a moment, then said that since he is a god, he must treat him well.

But although Lycaon said he believed it verbally, he was somewhat disapproving in his heart.

So he went to the back kitchen, asked the guards to kill a hostage, and asked the cook to make a dish and serve it on the table for dinner.

You know, the gods don't accept living sacrifices—that is, killing human beings as sacrifices.

If you want to use humans as sacrifices, you can, kill them, you can't.

Even this is an offense and provocation.

Lycaon made human flesh into dinner for the gods, which shows his contempt and malice.

But... the gods can see it.

Communication with all things is the basic skill of the gods. Although it cannot be controlled, it is possible to get some information.

So Zeus learned of this without any surprise.

And there is no suspense in anger.

Originally

He came here to investigate the mentality of human beings, but was so offended that Zeus turned Lycaon into a wolf the moment this dish was served on the table.

Then he went back to Mount Olympus angrily.

Hera was sitting in front of the dressing table at this time, taking care of her skin carefully.

Even for gods, the condition of the skin changes. Although it can be repaired with divine power, the cosmetics passed down among the gods always have some special effects.

For example, make the skin more smooth and delicate, or bring a sweet aroma.

Which goddess doesn't want to make herself more attractive.

Hera was not immune either.

The Queen of God applied the facial mask while listening to her husband complaining there, unmoved.

"Hera, why don't you speak." Zeus said for a long time without responding, a little displeased.

"I'm putting on a mask." Hera looked back at him from the mirror, but didn't open her mouth, but imitated a voice with divine power: "The mask will wrinkle when you talk, I got it from my second sister, it's very precious."

Zeus: "..."

Does it matter that he doesn't have a mask? !

Rubbing his forehead, Zeus lowered his anger, calmed down and found that it was not a big deal.

The big deal is to destroy human beings again, which is easy to solve.

The difficult question is who will create human beings.

Gaia went on strike, Prometheus was cold, and few of the remaining gods were good at it.

Zeus raised this problem, and Hera sat down and gently pressed the mask, and said lightly: "It's not easy, you can let the second sister inform His Highness Gaia, and then let Themis formulate a one-time rule. gone."

Zeus felt that this method should work.

Then go to Themis and ask carefully.

Themis thought for a while, then nodded: "It can be done, but we have to leave a man and a woman as templates."

I went to find Demeter again. Although Demeter was so disgusted that he didn't even let him in, she nodded and agreed to ask him.

After the necessary conditions are resolved, the next step is who will do the destruction and who will be left behind.

Zeus rarely went to Poseidon.

Poseidon lay on the throne like a boneless man, watching the beautiful mermaid singing and dancing there, seeing him coming, he just stretched out his hand lazily and said, "Yo~ why are you here?"

Zeus directly stated his purpose.

When Poseidon heard it, he immediately shook his head and turned into a rattle: "No, no, no, if I destroy the world

Brother has to kill me. "

If so many humans die, Hades will be so busy that it explodes.

Hades could kill him straight away.

Think of Hades' terrible fighting power, he still wants to live.

"I'll help you talk to Hades," Zeus said.

"Then you go, as long as you can take care of big brother, I have no problem." Poseidon yawned, as if he was about to fall asleep.

So Zeus had to go to Hades again.

"What's the matter with you?" Hades took a rare vacation for himself, and Zeus came over.

Erebus was also there, and the two gods didn't know what they were talking about just now.

"Brother, I want to re-create human beings." Although he called Huan behind his back, Zeus obediently bowed his head and called Brother in front of the person involved.

#Zeus: I'm not afraid of him! #

Hades was very calm: "Yes."

Zeus: "?"

The king of gods is a little unbelievable.

After all, how busy Hades is, you can see how many banquets Hades has rejected.

Hades: ...not really busy.

Pluto simply doesn’t want to go. After all, except for some special cases, such as those who are too pure to stay in Elysee, those who are just and unqualified to be civil servants in the underworld when they are alive, and those who have God behind them, only Hades can judge without mercy. Let the underworld gods arrange the souls directly.

Moreover, the reincarnation system is very complete, and most souls go to reincarnation directly without the help of the underworld god.

Hades really had very little to deal with personally, and his work was more Hades than Judgment.

So not too busy.

"You just need to make sure that the first batch of humans has one-thousandth of what it is now." Hades said lightly.

"Animals have to create too." Erebus took a sip of tea and reminded him beside him.

Hades nodded after hearing this.

Zeus was silent.

How much is one thousandth? Although the current human beings only occupy a small part of the earth, the number is about 1000 billion.

The size of the earth is beyond imagination.

One thousandth, one hundred million.

"It's too difficult to create [-] million people at once." Zeus frowned.

How many years did it take for the current human population to reach it.

Hades is ruthless: "Hades doesn't have such a big place to put so many souls."

The underworld ruled by Hades is the size of the earth

Two-thirds of that, but the underworld used for reincarnation is only one-tenth.

The soul also occupies land in Hades.

"Okay, then I'll go back and think about it."

Zeus reluctantly agreed.

Creating [-] million people is not impossible, but it would take too much time.

"It's time-consuming." Hera said, "It's good if the elder brother agrees."

Zeus: ...Okay.

So it's settled.

As for who to choose for the remaining humans, Zeus did not hesitate for too long.

They were a couple named Deucalion and Pyrrha.

Although they are human beings, they are descendants of gods.

The former is the son of Prometheus and the sea nymph Pronoia, and the latter is the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora.

As for why the parents are the children of gods but human beings...

Probably degenerated.

But before that, Prometheus had reminded his son to build an ark to save his life.

Deucalion did so, and a short time later, the overwhelming flood swept the entire land.

He and his wife Pila hid in the ark and drifted for nine days and nine nights before the flood gradually receded.

The couple wandered around in the ark for a while, thanks to the descendants of the gods, nothing happened.

Otherwise, instead of dying in the flood, he would die of seasickness...

╮(￣▽￣")╭

The ark ran aground on the top of Mount Parnassus, and the two people who had been in the ark for a long time felt it the moment the ark stopped.

Probably this is down-to-earth happiness.

Deucalion boldly opened the door of the ark, and found that the flood had receded and corpses were everywhere.

Deucalion's legs went limp.

The corpses everywhere, human and animal, were swelled and rotted by the flood, and the whitened skin was stretched without wrinkles, and it had to be twice its original volume.

Coupled with the maggots, that impact...

Deucalion wiped his face, hid in a clean place and vomited.

Pila was a lot more courageous, so he wouldn't vomit, but he stayed away from those corpses.

After finally calming down, the couple made another simple sacrifice to the gods.

Because of their identities as descendants of the gods, these two have very devout beliefs in the gods.

It is also one of the reasons why it will be chosen by Zeus.

Although there are no sacrifices now, their beliefs are devout enough.

"God

, please tell us what to do. "They knelt on the ground and prayed to the gods.

And Themis heard all this.

Leaving aside the fact that she accepted the task of creating humans, her temper is fair and respects rules, but she is not lacking in kindness.

She has always had a good impression of devout believers.

In public and private, she will help Deucalion and Pyrrha.

So Deucalion and Pyrrha heard her cool voice—

"I am Themis, the goddess of justice. If you want to restore human civilization and prosperity, then take off your clothes, put on your veil, and throw your mother's bones behind you."

Although Themis is a cold goddess, the oracle has always been cumbersome and mysterious.

So, Deucalion and Pyrrha, who heard her words, were confused.