flower god in greek mythology

earth, kingdom of kerius

The carriage took Demeter to a simple farmyard, an hour and a half drive from the king's castle.For this small kingdom, such a drive has already reached a remote village.The coachman told Demeter that he was going to have a drink at a country pub not far away, and if Demeter couldn't find him after he came out, he could look for him there.Demeter agrees with this, she has a hunch that she will need some time next, and this meeting may not be easy.

As for the coachman, who was said to be very talkative in the royal family, he was so talkative, and he also made up his mind in his heart, just drink a glass of ale this time, and don't keep this talkative nurse waiting for a long time.

After the coachman left, Demeter took a closer look at the gate in front of him. The gate of this courtyard is facing the very spacious main road in the kingdom, and it is the only one in the nearby houses that opens the gate in this way.The travelers passing by thought that this is why they always ask for water from this family, and that is why the man named Iasion was entrusted by the king and queen.Thinking like this, she walked slowly towards the closed door.When she came to the door, she knocked on the wooden door.

"Excuse me, is this Iasion's house?" Demeter asked loudly.

"Dear guest, the door is ajar, please come in quickly." A male voice came from the door.

Demeter couldn't help frowning when she heard this. She felt that the master was a little ignorant.It would be a very bad thing if mortals treated gods with this attitude.However, Demeter thought again: Those who don't know are not guilty. I came here as a wandering mortal, and the other party should not know my identity. Therefore, such an attitude is acceptable.

Walking into the courtyard, I have to say that this small courtyard is very tidy and everything is in order.There is a cow pen in the yard, where a yellow cow is chewing hay, but the person who just made a sound was not seen.This uninhabited courtyard was a little weird, which made Demeter feel strange. If it was an ordinary mortal woman, she might have left here immediately.However, Demeter didn't. She was a goddess after all, so she turned around and closed the door again.Then, she called inside: "Mr. Iasion, are you there? I am the nanny of the little prince Temophoon. I heard from the king and queen that you can help me..."

"Oh, noble daughter of Cronus, crowned with flowers and ears of corn, Madonna of farmers, Demeter, goddess of agriculture and harvest, welcome here." The male voice just now came from the cattle pen .

Now, Demeter turned his attention to the scalper in the cow pen.

"You are Iasion?" Demeter was a little surprised, but she didn't think there was any problem with the cattle talking, so she turned to the cattle pen.

"No, Iasion is my son. I sent him to dig the ground. My name is Ia." The ox said.

"Io? Are you the daughter of the king of the city of Argos?" Demeter heard "Io" as "Io". Some time ago, because of Hera, he was successively attacked by the hundred-eyed monster Al. The mortal mistress of Zeus, the keeper of Gos and persecuted by the sting of the gadfly, because the Argos princess Io, who was turned into a heifer by Zeus in a panic, was the talk of the gods on the mountain of Olympus after dinner.So, Demeter got it wrong.

"No, Your Highness Demeter, my pronunciation is similar to that of that mortal woman's name, but we don't have more intersections." The scalper said.

"So, who are you? And why do you know my identity?" Demeter asked.

"Who am I? Oh, Your Majesty Pontus, no one in this world remembers me." A tear rolled down the scalper's eyes, "Ah, once I was as beautiful as that rose, and I once had The love of the Lord of Thunder, I am the nymph of the sea, chosen by Theseus, the goddess of the sea, to take care of the prince Titan who was replaced by a stone. Oh, the daughter of the sky and the earth, after learning that I have a prince For her schemes, she separated me from the future king, and cursed me and my poor son viciously. Turned me into a bull, and my son was almost incomprehensible because of that curse. The most pitiful thing is my ignorant child, he should have enjoyed the glory of the eldest son of Zeus, but even his father God doesn't know his existence."

Hearing these cries, Demeter was terrified. Before she became Zeus' lover, she vaguely heard that Zeus had been devoted to him when he was young, but the creature who made Zeus fall in love with him fell overnight. Time disappeared in Zeus's world, so Zeus lost that single-minded feeling, and has been playing tricks ever since.The wives and mistresses of Zeus actually didn't know much about this matter, because it happened when Zeus was a teenager. It's in Adam's stomach.Only a few creatures in the sea area knew about it, and even the news that came out was not very clear, and it was impossible to restore the true nature of this matter.Most of the wives and mistresses of Zeus who heard about this incident were of the same generation or elders of Zeus. The younger ones didn’t know about it. They often laughed noncommittally in front of others. I have an idea, but most of them don't believe it.

——So, this weeping bull in front of you is the object of Zeus's single-minded affection?

Demeter felt that this incident happened too suddenly. She always thought that the creature that Zeus fell in love with was rumored to be Zeus's first wife. The female strategist, the mother of Trithogenia, who was born of the armored sword that was swallowed by Zeus because of Gaia's prophecy, the jewel in the palm of Theseus, the goddess of the sea, and Oceanus, the god of the circulation ocean. , Metis, goddess of sea wisdom.She once thought that the rumor was just created because Eurynome was jealous of Themis, who had been the wife of Zeus after her sister Metis, but the prototype was Metis.But I never thought that this prototype really existed, and it was not Metis.

Out of kindness, Demeter comforted the poor former sea nymph who was turned into a bull.Then, he said to it: "So, you came to me, do you want me to tell Zeus about your experience?"

"No, noble goddess, I don't want to meet him like this, so please postpone the report." The scalper said.

"So, do you need me to do something for you?" Demeter asked, looking at the poor creature.The image of this bull is very similar to the image of a bull that Zeus transformed into to abduct Europa back then. It seems that Zeus still has this missing "true love" in his subconscious mind. The constellation in the sky may not be Zeus himself. Like, but this sea fairy who once had the true love of the god king in her youth.Perhaps, for Zeus, the sincere and dedicated emotion that was destroyed by various factors and buried for a long time is a feeling of being disappointed. He thinks women are fickle.The best way to deal with fickle women is to be more fickle than they are, and that's what Zeus has always done.

Even the gods with a love like Zeus and Gaia have single-minded expectations for their love at the beginning, but they are destined to be let down by love, so they start to have many lovers, making their gods flourish.

"Yes, noble goddess, please lift the curse for me and my son. If you can help me, then I will tell you the whereabouts of your daughter Persephone." The ox said.

After hearing this, Demeter was startled, and immediately asked: "Do you know the whereabouts of my daughter?"

"Yes, I heard about it by chance." Scalper said.

"Then how do I break the curse?" Demeter asked.

In addition to being Zeus' lover, Demeter is also Zeus' sister. She is a kind and upright goddess. She hopes that Zeus will be well, and at the same time, she also hopes that Zeus will find his single-minded emotion and stop harming more lovers. up.

"This method may make you feel a little embarrassed, but please believe that if I have any other methods, I will not propose it to you so brazenly." The scalper sighed helplessly.

"Whatever it is, please tell me," Demeter said.

"I beg you to unite with my son and give birth to him an eternal Son of God." The scalper hesitated again and again, and finally made the request.

Demeter was taken aback when she heard such a request, she had never thought of such a request.It's so embarrassing.

"I know that you are also Zeus' mistress now, but I heard that you were married to Poseidon before Zeus. So, you are a romantic goddess, and at the same time, you are Zeus' sister, and Zeus will not care about you if you want to come One more guest. My son is the eldest son of Zeus, and he will be a mighty god if he is freed from the curse. I will let him marry you, officially. And, the Persephone you seek I will give you the whereabouts immediately." Seeing Demeter's embarrassment, the scalper said immediately.

The kind and upright Demeter felt very sympathetic to the ox in front of her. At the same time, as a mother who had been searching for Persephone for so long, there was no reason for her to have a creature who knew her daughter's whereabouts.She thought about it, maybe this should also be a love arranged by Chaos. The scalper was right, Zeus would not care that he had an extra guest, and he was not a goddess who guarded himself like a jade. Over the years, Zeus With so many mistresses, I don't see her caring more about which mistress.

"Okay, I agree, but I can't do it today. I have to go back to the palace. The child I take care of still needs a few days of tempering." Demeter said, "I hope your news will not let me disappointment."

"Of course not." The scalper nodded.

Demeter and the scalper reached a seemingly win-win deal, but they all forgot that Theseus, the goddess of the sea, had a very high IQ and EQ among the Titan Protoss. Could the curse be so easily broken?

The author has something to say:

I have to work overtime on weekends.So there is only this update this week.

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I have been embedding mythology. Iasion and Temophoion are important experiences about Demeter in Greek mythology. Iasion actively pursues it in mythology, but here I am because of the needs of the plot. It had to be arranged like this.Do you accept it?