Reversing Greek Mythology

royal palace.

Garden garden with blooming flowers.

After Laoyinus succeeded to the throne with the support of Creon and the nobles, Luoyin and Laoyinus came to the courtyard together.

Looking at the butterflies and bees flying and busy in the flower bed, Layoos said with a smile.

"Chrysippus! Although my cousin Amphion and your aunt Niobe are dead, this does not affect our relationship as distant cousins. You will live with me in the city of Thebes, I will definitely take good care of you as an older brother.”

Luo Yin shook his head expressionlessly and said.

"Layos, I have no reason to stay in Thebes. I plan to leave Thebes in accordance with Mnemosyne's request and personally find the truth and answer I want."

After saying that, Luo Yin spread his white wings behind his back.

Then, under Layoos's unbelievably shocked gaze, Luo Yin's body turned into a stream of white light and flew up into the sky.

"Chrysippus——"

Looking at Luo Yin flying away, Layoos said with a painful expression.

"Are you still unwilling to accept my feelings for you after all?"

On the vast sea between the Attica Peninsula and the Argos region.

Luo Yin fell from the sky and landed on an uninhabited island.

When a fleet carrying food came to the island to replenish the Danshui, Luo Yin asked the leader of the fleet for help and left the island with the fleet.

Because the goal of this fleet is to go to the Argos area guarded by Zeus.

This grain transport fleet drifted on the sea for a day and a night. The next morning, the port of Tiryns appeared in front of the fleet.

Just when the leader of the fleet ordered the sailors to row with all their strength and let the fleet sail towards the port of Tiryns at full speed, many small boats suddenly appeared on the sea and rushed towards the grain transport fleet like arrows.

The keen-eyed leader of the fleet saw the sailors on the boat clearly and immediately shouted in panic.

"The son of Typhon is coming, everyone, hurry up and fight."

Son of Typhon——

After hearing the words of the fleet leader, Luo Yin immediately looked curiously at the small boats approaching the fleet.

Although the sailors on the boat were murderous, they were all ordinary humans, and there were no demigods or gods that fit the identity of [Son of Typhon].

In the blink of an eye, the sons of Typhon were tangled up with the grain fleet in their famous boats.

Seeing that the sailors of the grain transport fleet were all ready for battle, the sons of Typhon shouted angrily.

"Hurry up and put down your weapons and surrender. As long as you hand over the food and goods, we promise not to harm you or take away your ship."

Only then did Luo Yin suddenly say.

"So the so-called sons of Typhon are pirates!"

Typhon - This is a very famous name in Greek mythology.

In the myths fabricated by people hundreds of years later, Typhon was set as the son of Gaia, the mother goddess of the earth, and a Titan god of the same generation as the twelve Titans.

Typhon not only gave birth to Nemean lion, the three-headed dog Cerberus, the sphinx and other mythical beasts with Echidna, the goddess with a human head and a snake body, but he also once competed with Zeus for the throne of the supreme god. God's throne.

There are many mythological versions of the war between Typhon and Zeus.

In some normal versions, Zeus uses his wisdom and strength to defeat Typhon.

But in the version where Typhon is confused with the Egyptian storm god Set, because the storm god Seth once reigned over the Egyptian gods as the king of the gods, Typhon defeated Zeus, and the gods were afraid of Typhon. The story of escaping from Mount Olympus by transforming into various animals.

In fact, Olympus is the holy mountain of nomads.

After the Dorians invaded the Peloponnese and seized hegemony, Mount Olympus became the mythical abode of the gods.

So it is obvious that the myth of Typhon was completely fabricated by people hundreds of years later.

As for Typhon's real-life prototype, he is not a native Greek god, but a storm god from the Eastern Mediterranean.

Although Set, the storm god who once became the king of gods in Egypt, was one of the prototypes of Typhon, Typhon was not the incarnation of Set.

Because if you deeply understand the mythology and history of Egypt, you will find that Set, the Egyptian storm god, is a very complex god in himself.

Over the course of thousands of years, Seth, as the native god of Egypt, integrated both the desert gods from the west of Egypt and the foreign gods from the east of Egypt.

There will be confusion between Typhon and Seth, not because of Seth's attributes as a native Egyptian god, nor because of Seth's attributes as a desert god, but because of Seth's attributes as a foreign god-the storm god.

In other words, the real prototype of Typhon is not Set, but the storm god who was confused with Set.

After seeing that the captain of the fleet refused to surrender to the pirates, the Sons of Typhon, the sailors and pirates began to fight, and Luo Yin began to think about the reason why the Sons of Typhon appeared in this era.

In mythology, Typhon appeared after Zeus imprisoned the first generation of Titans, and competed with Zeus for the dominance of Mount Olympus.

This is obviously a made-up mythical story, and there can be no realistic prototype to explore.

"Although the myth of Typhon is completely fictitious and it is impossible to explore the time when Typhon appeared, Typhon's wife Echidna has a timeline that can be explored. Theogony fabricated by people hundreds of years later, Echidna Dena is set as the daughter of Phorcys, the father of all monsters, but there is also a version in which Echidna is set as the daughter of Chrysaor and the sea goddess Calliroe. Chrysaor is Pere. The son of Poseidon who was born when Perseus killed Medusa, that is to say, Chrysaor was a contemporary of Perseus, and Echidna was Chrysaor and Callillo. The daughter of E was a contemporary of the children of Perseus. The era when Typhon and Echidna gave birth to many sons of Typhon and launched war against Zeus was the era of Perseus's grandsons. . And now, I am living in the time when Perseus’ grandson ruled Mycenae.”

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"If the myth of Typhon has a reasonable realistic prototype, it is obvious that Zeus symbolizes the Mycenaeans, and Typhon symbolizes the pirates. The pirates plundered the fleets that transported food to the Mycenaeans. It was Typhon who launched the attack on Zeus. In mythology, Typhon's power is so great that he can compete with Zeus for Mount Olympus. It is probably because the pirates plundered too much food that the Mycenaeans even faced an existential crisis. The symbol of pirates is that these pirates worship the storm god, and the real name of the storm god cannot be Typhon."

Just when Luo Yin wanted to explore the origin of Typhon more deeply, a fleet sailed quickly from the port of Tiryns and joined the battle between the grain transport fleet and the pirate ship.

After the pirates fled hastily in the face of attacks from both sides, the leader of the grain transport fleet said to the leader of the fleet who came to the rescue.

"These Sons of Typhon are becoming more and more rampant. Can't we find a way to deal with them?"

The leader of the rescue fleet said with a smile.

"Now in order to deal with these sons of Typhon, the royal family and nobles are discussing with the city of Athens to join forces and launch a war against the hometown of these sons of Typhon."