Reversing Greek Mythology

Although there is a saying in strategy that befriends far away and attacks close, there is also a saying that rabbits do not eat grass near their nests.

If there are interactions between countries, it is applicable to distant relations and close attacks.

But what applies to pirates is obviously that rabbits don’t eat grass beside their nests.

Because the essence of piracy is that areas with advanced navigation technology and civilization use navigation technology to plunder and even colonize areas with backward civilization.

If pirates plunder adjacent areas, even if the neighbors do not have advanced navigation technology, they can still launch a revenge war against the pirates' hometown from land.

Therefore, for the safety of their hometown, pirates usually live in peace with their neighbors and go to remote areas with backward civilization to plunder.

The island of Cyprus is across the sea from the Cilicia region. In order to prevent their hometown from being attacked by Cyprus, the Cilicia pirates did not regard Cyprus as a target for plundering wealth.

After hearing Luo Yin's request for information about the Cilicia pirates, King Alathia of Cyprus said with a troubled expression.

"Our relationship with the Cilician pirates has always been peaceful. If we betray their information, the Cilician pirates will definitely retaliate against us."

"The Kingdom of Cyprus is a maritime power. Don't you even have the confidence to deal with pirates?"

Luo Yin teased with a sneer.

"If you are worried about retaliation from pirates, we can assure you that we will use massacre to deal a fatal blow to the Cilicia pirates, so that the Cilicia pirates will never recover."

"Even if you say so..."

Alasia looked troubled, obviously not believing that the Mycenaeans' cross-sea expedition could deal a fatal blow to the Cilicias fighting on the mainland.

Seeing Alashia's reaction, Amphitryon said with an unhappy expression.

"King Alashia, do you no longer regard us as compatriots and your own people?"

"Compatriots? One of our own?"

Alashia couldn't help but sneered.

"After hundreds of years of integrating into the local area, you are already Mycenaeans, and we are Cypriots. Who are your compatriots and our own people? Even if we have the same ancestors, we are different now. Nationality. Do you think that the three brothers Zeus worshiped by your Mycenaeans and the three brothers Baal on the east coast of the Eastern Mediterranean are different identities of the same god? "

Amphitryon shook his head without hesitation.

The Mycenaeans worshiped the three Zeus brothers as the supreme god and helped Zeus dominate the Peloponnese Peninsula.

The three Baal brothers on the east coast of the Eastern Mediterranean are religious gods without a throne. They can only rely on spiritual victory to declare themselves the kings of the gods in territories ruled by foreign invaders.

Neither Zeus nor the Mycenaeans could afford to be ashamed of treating the three brothers of Zeus and the three brothers of Baal as the same gods.

What's more, after hundreds of years, the three brothers Zeus and the three brothers Baal have evolved into different gods.

The core of the three brother gods composed of the sky god, the sea god, and the underworld god was originally a storm god with the attributes of the sky god worshiped by the Semitic people on the east coast of the Eastern Mediterranean.

After being confused with Insikul, the god of thunder and rain in Sumerian mythology, the storm god Adela evolved into the god of storms and thunderstorms in mythology.

Of course, the confusion between gods never means that two different gods merge into the same god in reality.

So Adad, the storm god, is still Adad, the storm god, and Yinsi Kul, the thunder and rain god, is still Yin Xikul, the thunder and rain god.

Influenced by Sumerian mythology, Inshtar, as Adad's sister and companion, became the war goddess Astarte worshiped by the Semitic people.

What is more likely is that the goddess Astarte, whom the Semitic people had always worshiped, absorbed the concept of Inshtar and evolved into a goddess similar to Inshtar.

Therefore, the Semitic goddess Astarte has similarities with the Sumerian goddess Inshtar, but there are also fundamental differences.

Looking up and looking at Aphrodite's beautiful Bi Tong, Luo Yin couldn't help but whisper in his heart.

"The goddess Astartes has been rewritten beyond recognition by foreign invaders. Perhaps Astartes has left her past territory and become Aphrodite on the island of Cyprus. Just like the three Storm God brothers went to Pelopon The Nyssa Peninsula evolved into the three brothers of the God of Thunder.”

In Sumerian mythology, Insikull, the god of thunder and rain, is just an insignificant deity.

Adad, the storm god, is the supreme god worshiped by the Semitic people.

If these two gods are confused in mythology, the Semitic king of gods, the storm god Adad, is regarded as the same god as the thunder god Yinsikul in Sumerian mythology - to the Mesopotamia Several kings of gods bowed down to their subordinate gods. I am afraid that the people in Mesopotamia would happily accept the Semitic king of gods to kneel down and worship their king of gods. The Semitic people would never accept the gods of Mesopotamia. Over their storm god Adad.

There are usually two examples of confusion between gods from different myths.

The first example is that the powerful myth of Mesopotamia absorbed Adad, and mixed the Semitic king of gods Adad with the god of thunder and rain, Yinsikul, to produce the Semitic supreme god who was replaced by the supreme god of Mesopotamia. the result of domination.

Then the people in Mesopotamia can claim that your Semitic gods are ruled by our gods in Mesopotamia, so you Semites should also be ruled by us people in Mesopotamia.

The Romans confused the Twelve Roman Gods with the Twelve Greek Gods. They also wanted the Twelve Roman Gods to merge and absorb the Twelve Greek Gods, and claimed to the Greeks that the Romans and the Greeks believed in the same Twelve Gods, so The Greeks were not supposed to rebel against Roman rule.

But I didn’t expect that the Twelve Greek Gods had a profound mythological heritage. Not only were they not absorbed by the Twelve Roman Gods, they also merged with the Twelve Roman Gods.

But the original intention of the Romans in confusing the Twelve Roman Gods with the Twelve Greek Gods was definitely to have the Twelve Roman Gods absorb the Twelve Greek Gods, rather than to have their own gods be absorbed by the Greek gods.

The second example of confusion between gods is the confusion between Apollo and the sun god Helios.

This kind of confusion is usually caused by weak gods deliberately confusing themselves with powerful gods in order to improve their own status, and eventually annexing and absorbing powerful gods.

No matter how the gods are confused in mythology, it must be understood that in reality, different gods are always different gods.

The two river basins are not adjacent to the sea, so although there is worship of water gods in the two river basins, there is no worship of sea gods.

Yin Xikuer, the god of thunder and rain in the Mesopotamia, therefore has no sea god as his brother.

The Semitic people lived on the east coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, and obtaining food from the ocean was an important way for them to survive.

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Therefore, the Semitic storm god Adad had a brother named Yam, the sea god.

This is also an important proof that Adad and Yinsikul are different gods in reality.

The territory where the Semitic people live is adjacent to the Mesopotamia and the Egyptian region, and they have in-depth exchanges with the Egyptian region.

When the worship of Hades in Egypt was absorbed by the Semitic people, the Semitic storm god Adad had another brother - Mot, the god of Hades.