Reversing Greek Mythology

Circe seemed to have not heard Luo Yin's words. The little bird lay in Luo Yin's arms, greedily smelling the scent of Luo Yin.

"The smell of my brother that I am most familiar with...why didn't I recognize him at first sight?"

Luo Yin helplessly pressed Circe's long white-blond hair with her chin, guessing in her mind why she mistook him for her brother.

In the theogony of Greek mythology, Circe is the granddaughter of the first generation Titans, the sun god Hyperion and the light goddess Theia, and the second generation sun god Helios and the sea goddess Perseins. daughter.

Circe mistakenly thought that he was her brother, probably because her brother Aeetes or Phaethon inherited the light godhead of his grandmother, Theia, the goddess of light.

Because she also possesses the godhead of light, Circe regards herself as her brother who inherits the godhead of light.

Thinking of this, Luo Yin immediately felt enlightened.

Thetis probably mistook herself for Circe's brother, so she offered her the kiss of the goddess to help her.

"Circe, do you know what my name means?"

"How could I not know? My brother's name means burning fire."

The burning flame——

This is the meaning of the name Phaethon.

It seems that the two sons of the sun god Helios, Aeetes inherited the kingdom of Colchis and became the king, and Phaethon inherited the light godhead of his grandmother, the goddess of light Theia.

In other words, Circe regarded herself as her brother Phaethon, who also had the godhead of light.

"Circe! Although I possess the divine power of light, I am not your brother Phaethon."

"Brother refuses to forgive me, is it because I have not been punished? Then let me sleep with him as punishment. I will serve him wholeheartedly."

After saying that, Circe pushed Luo Yin towards the back bedroom.

Looking down and seeing Circe smiling brightly like a madwoman, Luo Yin immediately stopped, grabbed Circe's shoulders with both hands and pushed her away from her arms and said.

"You don't look like you are going to be punished. Instead, you look like you are going to receive a reward."

"Hehehe... my brother saw through it."

"Circe! Since you consider me your brother, you should listen to me and provide me with information about the ship and Odysseus."

"don't want!"

Circe shook her head and said.

"If I meet my brother's request, he will leave from the island of Aea. But I am trapped here by the gods of Olympus and cannot leave with my brother and serve him all the time. So my brother will stay in Aea. Only if Edao stays with me for a while will I satisfy my brother’s request.”

"You are trapped on the island of Aeaea - it seems that you have a similar experience to Calypso."

"My situation is completely different from Calypso's!"

Circe said with a wry smile.

"Brother, have you really forgotten?"

"Uh - I'm sorry! I did forget that although you and Calypso are both prisoners trapped on the island, your situations are completely different."

In Greek mythology, Calypso was a prisoner imprisoned by Zeus on the island of Ogygia.

But Calypso is not the goddess of the sea. She was originally the patron saint of a city-state in the Peloponnese Peninsula in mainland Greece.

In the city-state era of the real world, city-states that worshiped Zeus gradually dominated the Greek mainland and created a mythical world with Zeus as the core.

After the city-state guarded by Calypso was conquered by Zeus's city-state, Calypso was relegated to a prisoner goddess in Greek mythology because she was unwilling to surrender to Zeus.

Whether in the mythical world or the real world, Circe is a goddess belonging to the far east.

Among the gods from the East, such as Apollo, Aphrodite, and Hephaestus, the farthest from mainland Greece is Aphrodite, the Near Eastern goddess on the island of Cyprus.

In other words, in the eyes of the Greeks, the gods from the East were gods who belonged to the same Mediterranean world as them and could be integrated into their mythological world.

Circe did not belong to the Mediterranean world.

She is a goddess from the far east - the east coast of the Black Sea.

In the real world, the civilization that believed in and worshiped Circe was too far away from the Greeks.

Therefore, in the mythical world, Circe was not absorbed and fused like gods such as Apollo and Aphrodite, but like Calypso who fought against Zeus, she was degraded and became a prisoner on the island of Aeaea.

"The ideas of the ancient Greeks were so simple! Because they could not plunder the wealth from the east coast of the Black Sea and colonize the area, they devalued the goddess of the other party's belief in their own mythology."

If the civilization that worshiped Circe had been colonized by the Argonauts who plundered its wealth, her treatment in Greek mythology would never have been so bad.

Apollo was able to be integrated into Greek mythology as the son of Zeus because the city of Troy guarded by Apollo was destroyed by the Greek coalition forces, and the west coast of the Asia Minor Peninsula became a Greek colony.

In order for the people of Asia Minor to accept Greek rule, Apollo's identity became the son of Zeus.

"Brother, what are you thinking about?"

After hearing Circe's question, Luo Yin came back to his senses and said.

"Circe, I sympathize with your plight. After I complete my mission, I am willing to take you back to your hometown of Colchis."

Hearing Luo Yin's words, Circe said with a disappointed expression.

"Brother clearly knows... what I really want is to be with you forever."

Facing Circe's affectionate confession, Luo Yin felt helpless.

If this was the real world and she could get Circe's wholehearted love, Luo Yin wouldn't mind indulging in Circe's tenderness.

But this is just a false mission world. For Luo Yin, the most important thing is to complete the system mission, not to stay with Circe and fall in love with her.

Seeing Luo Yin's reaction, Circe forced a smile and said.

"I won't make things difficult for my brother! Since he must leave, then I will meet his request."

After holding Luo Yin's left hand with both hands, Circe pulled Luo Yin outside and said.

"Brother, I will give you a boat now."

After a while.

Loyin and Circe arrived at the coastal port of Aeaea.

Seeing that the port was empty, not even a fishing boat, Luo Yin looked at Circe beside him and asked.

"Circe, where is the ship you spoke of?"

"right here!"

After Circe finished speaking, he pointed at the port with his left hand and released white-gold divine power from his palm.

Gululu——Gululu——

Circe's divine power penetrated into the sea water, and bubbles began to emerge from the sea surface.

After a while, a ship that could accommodate twenty people floated from the bottom of the sea to the surface.

"This is the best ship among the sunken ships at the bottom of the sea, and now I give it to my brother."

Circe turned around, looked into Luo Yin's eyes and said.

"Brother wants to know where Odysseus is, and I can tell you. Now Odysseus is imprisoned in a cave by Polyphemus, the giant son of Poseidon, a giant from Cyclops. If the brother wants to kill Odysseus, he can wait for Odysseus on the island of Gramvossa ruled by the wind god Aeolus, because after Odysseus escapes from Polyphemus, he will visit the wind god. Aeolus.”

"Let me go and wait for the wind god Aeolus - are you worried that I can't defeat the giant son of Poseidon?"

Circe shook her head and said.

"Poseidon's giant son is nothing. I am afraid that my brother will conflict with Poseidon. After all, the sea is the domain of Poseidon. If my brother kills Poseidon's giant son, I am worried that Poseidon will ——”

"Your worries are unnecessary."

After saying that, Luo Yin walked towards the ship in the port.