Reversing Greek Mythology

When the Greek mainland was still a city-state civilization with one city and one country, the Western Empire and the Egyptian Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean had already entered the era of nominally unified empires.

Affected by these advanced civilizations, the island of Cyprus, which covers an area larger than the two Kingdoms of Athens combined, has now entered the era of a nominally unified kingdom.

The king who ruled the island of Cyprus was Arathia, and his kingdom was also called the Kingdom of Arathia.

Lydra City.

This is the most powerful city-state on the island of Cyprus, and the king of Lydra City is the king of Cyprus, Alasia, recognized by all the city-states on the island of Cyprus.

After Luo Yin and Amphitryon landed on the island of Cyprus, they went to the palace of Lydra City together and visited King Alathia.

Palace hall.

Luo Yin and Amphitryon walked into the hall under the leadership of the palace maid, and saw Alasia standing up on the throne and saying.

"My dear countrymen, welcome to my palace."

During the era of the great migration of the Cretans, not only the Peloponnese Peninsula in Greece and the west coast of Asia Minor were the targets of Cretan immigrants, but also the island of Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean because of its rich natural resources. Resources became an important target for Cretan immigrants.

The royal family that rules the city of Lydra are the descendants of Cretan immigrants.

Amphitryon would take Luo Yin to visit Arathia because the Mycenaean royal family and the Yinlish royal family are also descendants of Cretan immigrants.

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"Great King Alathia, it is a pleasure to meet your venerable compatriot."

Amphitryon said with a salute that was neither humble nor haughty.

"I am Amphitryon from the city of Mycenae. We came to the Eastern Mediterranean to fight against the pirates raging in the Aegean Sea. I came to visit you today because I want to ask you about those people who are called the sons of Typhon. Are the pirates related to the city-state of Cyprus?”

The island of Cyprus is a very important maritime power in the Eastern Mediterranean.

In real history, when the Egyptian Empire was troubled by the problem of pirates, the Pharaoh once personally wrote a letter to the king of Cyprus asking whether the pirates were supported by them.

Alasia was not surprised to hear Amphitryon's inquiry.

He said with an innocent expression on his face.

"Dear compatriot Amphitryon, it is well known that the patron goddess of our island of Cyprus is the beautiful and powerful goddess Aphrodite. Those sons of Typhon worshiped the male god known as the Storm God. God, so those sons of Typhon have nothing to do with us.”

"King Alashia, do you think that since we are from the Central Mediterranean, we don't understand the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean?"

Luo Yin looked at Alashia and rolled his eyes and said.

"The goddess named Aphrodite does not have anything to do with the storm god Typhon who protected the pirates, but the goddess Astarte, who can be called the prototype of Aphrodite, was The Semitic people regarded her as the mistress and virgin goddess of the gods, but she was also regarded as the sister and companion of Adad [Baal], the male master of the gods.”

"Aha……"

As soon as Luo Yin finished speaking, Aphrodite's voice sighed.

"You are really going too far! We have different natures from Astartes. How can I, the patron saint of sailing, be related to the patron saint of pirates because of Astartes?"

While speaking, Aphrodite's figure suddenly appeared in the hall, accompanied by brilliant golden light.

Seeing the goddess coming, Alashia, who had a calm expression on her face, hurriedly said.

"Great Aphrodite, it is my fault that I failed to let strangers understand your greatness and holiness."

Aphrodite said with a teasing smile.

"I can appear directly in front of foreigners and make them understand their misunderstandings about us."

Looking at Aphrodite, whose beautiful body seemed to be shrouded in divine light, with the wings of the sky god spread out behind her, Luo Yin realized that he was really wrong.

Perhaps in the ancient times four thousand years ago, when Inshtar came to the east coast of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Mesopotamia in the most primitive manner, Astarte could indeed be regarded as the prototype of Aphrodite.

But in the current era, Aphrodite has in turn become the archetype that influenced the Astartes.

This change will occur not only because Aphrodite is still the patron saint with a divine throne, but Astartes has lost his divine throne and transformed into a god in faith.

What's more, various foreign invaders have intertwined on the east coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, and have changed Astartes beyond recognition.

The current goddess Astarte on the east coast of the Eastern Mediterranean is a fusion of the images of Inshtar from Mesopotamia, Aphrodite from Cyprus, the Lion Goddess from Egypt, and the Moon Goddess from the Western Empire. Complex goddesses together.

Despite possessing complex and diverse divinities, the Astartes are not powerful, and even her existence itself cannot be confirmed.

This is not only because Astartes does not have a patron saint's throne, but also because the areas where Astartes and Adad [Baal] were worshiped were either conquered by the Western Empire, the Egyptian Empire, or the Mi The conquest of the Tanni Kingdom left no room for independence.

When the Xitai Empire conquered this area, the Sun Queen was the supreme god in this area.

When the Egyptian Empire conquered this area, the sun god Amun was the supreme god in this area.

When the Mitanni Kingdom conquered this area, the supreme god of the Mitanni people was the supreme god of this area.

A region that has been repeatedly conquered by invaders for hundreds of years actually deceives itself and uses the method of spiritual victory to regard its male god Adad [Baal] and goddess Astarte as the master and mistress of the gods. worship.

This method of spiritual victory, which was in the same vein as the Mycenaeans, made Luo Yin have to doubt that Baal and Astarte did not exist at all.

Or perhaps, after this area was ravaged by invaders, Baal had already fled to Crete with his brother Yam, the god of the sea, and Mot, the king of Hades, and then moved from Crete to Perth. Loponnese Peninsula.

Since the three Baal brothers have long since transformed into the three brothers from the Peloponnese, then Typhon, the storm god on the east coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, is naturally no longer the original Adad, and Astarte is no longer Inshtar. you.

Thinking of this, Luo Yin smiled bitterly and apologized to Aphrodite.

"It seems we have indeed misunderstood! Echidna, the wife of Typhon, the patron saint of pirates in Cilicia, is the goddess of snakes. The prototype is probably the mother goddess of the snake land or the goddess of the sea in Cilicia. Just This is what proves that the goddess Aphrodite, as a virgin goddess and winged sky god, has nothing to do with the storm god Typhon. It is just because of your origins that you are both regarded as the sky in Greek mythology. The children of the god Uranus and the Sumerian god An. Since you have nothing to do with the Cilicia pirates, can you tell us the hometown of the Cilicia pirates?”