[Greek mythology] Grey-eyed goddess

The blue bird is a symbol of hope.According to legend, it is the family member of the goddess of prayer, and if you make a wish when the blue bird appears, your dream will come true.

A five-meter-sized cyan bird flapped its wings and held an olive branch in its mouth. It crossed the sky from the east and landed on a temple at the foot of a mountain.

This is the temple of Zeus. Now after the renovation, there are statues of the twelve main gods in a circle, with a square altar in the center.

Below, gather the kings and warriors of the various city-states.

The Kingdom of Thor fought with its neighbors a year ago, and received the help of Ares, the god of war, to repel the foreign enemies.In order to maintain the country's valor, the king decided to hold a sports meeting.

It happened that several border countries wanted to take a glimpse of the reality of the Kingdom of Thor, so the scale of the games gradually expanded.It's just that it is difficult for these countries to sit together, so I hope that the Goddess' Temple will come forward to ease the relationship.And invite all the city-states on the earth to participate in this grand event.

In front of the Temple of Zeus in the Kingdom of Thor, thousands of warriors and wise men competed.

"It's the blue bird of His Highness." There were twelve queues in front of the Temple of Zeus, each of which was a group of priests, symbolizing the families of the twelve main gods standing under the statues of the main gods.

One of the priests in white robes knelt down and recited praises immediately after seeing the blue bird.

The blue bird felt it, landed in front of the temple and put an olive branch on the ground.

Athena's family then performed magic, and the olive tree grew slowly, turning into a towering tree and covering the statues of the twelve main gods.

Then the gods and priests stepped forward to bless the olive tree one by one.This is the tree of peace, declaring this sacred and inviolable realm of peace.

Finally, the priest of the goddess of hope stepped forward to light the sacred fire with an olive branch.

A priest beside King Thor spoke in a low voice: "Your Majesty, this time, the sports meeting will be held in the Kingdom of Thor. Your Majesty, please offer the holy fire to the gods."

The king stood up, came under the olive tree, took the holy fire from the high priest, and walked step by step to the square fire altar at the foot of the statue of Zeus.The holy fire ignited the firewood, and suddenly the fire altars under the feet of the other eleven main gods raised the holy fire one by one.The bright flames shot up into the sky, and a rainbow appeared in the sky.

"Everyone, under the witness of the gods, let us have a fair contest and show the glory of all countries." When King Thor announced the start of the sports meeting, the gods descended on the rainbow one by one and stood in the sky looking down.

Hera smiled suddenly: "It seems that this sports meeting is not only helping Eris to transform his priesthood, but also helping our gods." Tianhou can feel the power of faith gathered in the entire sports meeting.

The golden cloud light unfurls, the milky white faith sinks into the clouds, and the vast sea of ​​clouds turns into a sea of ​​faith.

During the competition, everyone's thoughts are pure, and in order to give the victory to their main god and kingdom, they are all excited.And this kind of spiritual power turned into a sea of ​​clouds and was collected by the torch prepared by Sfitia in advance.

The statues of the twelve main gods form a magic circle, collect the power of faith into the fire altar below, and then absorb the core power and fly into the main pillar of the holy mountain to transform the divine power for the gods.

"With our discussions a few days ago, we will slowly cut off contact with humans. But this cut off is not a retreat, but another high-profile acquisition." Hope Goddess smiled brightly: "The influence of the gods permeates every human being. In one corner, human beliefs will continuously provide power for the gods."

The gods were thoughtful, looking at the sports meeting below, each of them could feel the increase of the main divine pillar flowing into them.

All the gods have their own ways to enhance their divine power. The Artemis brothers and sisters have the sun and the moon. As long as the living beings worship the sun and the moon, they have a share of power to obtain.As the king of gods, Zeus has the most profit.Poseidon also has a sea boundary domain, and has a wide range of ways.But other people can't do it. Ares' war, Hera's marriage, Aphrodite's love and Sfitia's hope all require the power of faith.

From this point of view, the gods on the natural side are stronger than Hera and Sfitia, the concept gods that rely on living beings.Therefore, other main gods except Sfitia have their own city-states to provide divine power.

However, belief is poisonous.Dionysus warned Yang Yan that she must not be the patron saint of the city-states. There will be a great chaos in the future, which will affect the patron saints of these city-states.

Even Apollo and Artemis had already been prepared, leaving a retreat in secret.

Therefore, Sfitia could only use the faith of the living beings to find the light of hope and find another way to use sports to improve divine power.

This kind of sports meeting, closely related to the gods, is an excellent opportunity to promote the beliefs of the gods.

The gods quietly watched the arrival of their city-state, and Sfitia also began to pay attention to Perseus.

Today, Perseus, as the lord of the country, brought the warriors of the country to participate.

Each king is guided by a priest of the goddess of hope.

"Your Highness, the Olympic Games is a competition favored by the gods. If you perform well here, you can get the favor of the gods." The priest and Perseus explained the content of the games.

"Including Your Highness Sfitia?" Perseus's mother is a follower of Sfitia, who has been brainwashed by his mother for decades. He feels like a relative to this incarnation of hope and goddess of glory. After all He grew up on the Isle of Glory for the first year of his life.

Priestess Mystra glanced at Perseus respectfully, and could feel the golden radiance on his body, which was the favor of her own goddess.Sfitia once fed Perseus with the juice of the holy flower, and the two are naturally connected.

"He is His Highness's patron." Thinking of this, Mysra had a gentle attitude, without any airs, and said softly: "His Highness promulgates an oracle, which will grant a wish for the country that finally wins. Of course, it is within the scope of not causing disputes." Inside, Your Highness will not advocate war."

"I understand." Perseus thought about it, "This time the gods summoned a group of kings, let us lead the wise men and warriors in the country, but how do we compete?"

"The sports meeting is divided into two parts, one for brain power and the other for physical power. Brain power is attended by wise men and scholars in the kingdom, and there are five items in mathematics, poetry, music, skills, and wisdom."

"Oh? How do you compare?"

"Mathematics, His Majesty the Sun God will give twelve exam questions, and everyone is invited to answer. Each kingdom has a maximum of three people. The number can be incomplete, but they can't whisper to each other and participate as individuals."

"It's the same with music and poetry. The sun god sets the test, and the method is similar."

"As for skills, each country presents its latest research skills, which kingdom has the highest technical value, and which kingdom wins. This is the topic of Vulcan and Goddess of Wisdom."

"And the final wisdom is a test question that the gods asked each country. Whoever can solve it first will win."

Sfitia is the master of ceremonies for the entire games. After the mortals started the competition, she said to the gods: "The five events of brain power are presided over by the three highnesses of Apollo, Athena and Hephaestus." Sfitia Wearing a shining golden robe and a flower crown on his head: "As for the award ceremony over there, His Royal Highness Apollo is in charge."

"Understood." Apollo wore a laurel crown and walked over with the other two main gods to witness this mental exercise.

"As for physical strength, there are ten events in total. Riding, running, weightlifting, high jump, long jump, cake throwing, swimming, archery, dancing, and wrestling."

This is the subject that Sfitia found from the gods. Riding and swimming are suggested by Poseidon. Wrestling and cake throwing are the subjects of Ares. Dance and archery are given by Apollo. Weightlifting and high jump It's Zeus, while running and jumping is Hermes.

"You can go and see the projects you like."

Zeus consulted with Poseidon on the advice of Sfitia, and the two of them traveled among the mortals with several gods.Protected by divine power, mortals did not see the existence of these gods.

The four remaining goddesses, Luna, Cupid, Hera, and Sfitia, stand on the rainbow.

The outcome of the sports meeting is unpredictable, and in many cases, miracles will be caused by the power of belief.

During the race, a young man broke out suddenly at the last moment, and finally defeated the enemy warrior who had been far ahead, and finally won the victory crown.

In the dark, Sfitia felt a force falling on her.This kind of hope that does not give up at the last moment is her favorite strength.

"So, I'm one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Games."

Another biggest beneficiary is Ares, who feels the power of competition all the time in this sports meeting.Sports and athletics became his two new vocations.The God of War was so excited that he wanted to break in and compete for himself several times.

But Zeus and Poseidon stopped him, and several people stood by and watched the warriors from all over the world wrestling.

From time to time, Zeus marked some people, and told Hermes beside him: "Take them back to the Temple of Zeus and take them as my family members."

This sports meeting brings together the elites of mankind, and it is also a good opportunity for the main gods to choose the family members of the believers.

Poseidon also left his mark on some people from time to time, and gradually there were differences between the brothers.

"Wait a minute, this man's archery champion is obviously my first choice."

"But I marked it first."

"The first thing I saw was that I was marking another person."

"That's too late, first come first served."

The two brothers quarreled, and Hera, who was staying in the rainbow, saw the quarrel and said to Sfitia, "Go and see."

According to the division of labor of the twelve main gods, Hermes is the messenger of the gods, sending messages for the gods.Sfitia symbolizes etiquette and is the host of various banquets.

She was guiding this sports meeting, and when she saw it, she hurried over.

"Why do your two majesties quarrel over a mortal? If you have someone you value, just mark it. Let the people in the temple get in touch later to see if they are willing to join. After all, their own wishes are also very important. But believe The two majesties can offer attractive conditions, and no one will reject the kindness of the two majesties." The goddess smiled to smooth things over, and the two kings were not easy to get angry, so they held back for the time being.

Sfitia looked at the two warriors selected by the king, both of whom were outstanding in each event.Sfitia also marked a few people casually, and then said to Ares: "Seeing that Your Highness is happy, how about marking a few warriors to wrestle with you?"

"Okay." Ares was already eager to try. At this time, ignoring Zeus and Poseidon next to him, he directly marked the champion of the wrestling event: "I can give him an artifact later and let him join my Temple of War."

Poseidon and Zeus planned in their hearts, and each prepared their own conditions.

Seeing that the dispute here subsided, Yang Yan went to the brain competition on the other side.

The five areas start at different times, with Mathematical Wisdom starting first.Athena asked the wise men from all over the world to take sheepskins of equal size to enclose land on the ground to see who can enclose the larger land.

For mathematics, Apollo chose twelve questions.Sfitia had read it beforehand, and she didn't understand some topics.Ancient Greek mathematics was very developed, and Apollo was one of the best.

However, there are some problems that Yang Yan also did in her previous life, such as chicken and rabbit in the same cage, calculation of pi, and trigonometric functions, etc.

"How?" Sfitia came to Apollo and asked.

"That's right. Although human beings don't have systematic education methods, many of them are smarter than the gods." Apollo's face was gloomy, and he could grasp the current situation of human beings in this sports meeting.This god feels threatened by humans.

In terms of physique, there is a gap between them and the gods, but these warriors are not lacking in the blood of gods, and they are extremely powerful.

In terms of wisdom, even the gods may not be able to completely answer the twelve questions chosen by Apollo, and Apollo was surprised by the many novel viewpoints among these mortals.

Seeing Apollo's vigilance, Sfitia pointed out something: "As long as the gods grasp the general direction and occupy the source of belief, can't human wisdom be used by the gods? If your highness is interested, why not choose a few a family member."

Apollo nodded silently, but secretly had his own thoughts.

These male gods are not at ease, even Hera, Gaia, and Demeter among the goddesses are not easy to be with.

Standing together with Apollo, Sfitia didn't expect that Apollo had so many thoughts in his mind, and even thought of setting up his own family.

The final winner of the mathematics competition is the king of a small country.In this sports meeting, I didn't mind the appearance of these kings. Even Perseus participated in a riding competition, saying that he wanted to dedicate the victory to the goddess of hope.

The riding competition was very long, and Sfitia and Apollo watched the music and poetry competitions here.

For the music competition, you need to compose a piece of music yourself.And poetry recitation must also be original.Among the two, one of the music to the god of beauty showed the dream scene of the birth of the god of beauty from the ocean in front of Apollo, and was selected as No.1.As for poetry, it was a troubadour's hymn to the sun god that Apollo liked most.

After the justice of Athena and Sfitia, Apollo brought the laurel crown to the two.

Not long after, Perseus brought back the sunflowers at the end on his divine horse and enshrined them in front of the temple of the Goddess of Hope.

Apollo glanced at the young king, and said to Sfitia: "It seems that he has a lot of predestined relationship with you, so he really doesn't want to build his own city-state?"

Sfitia shook her head slightly, but still walked over to collect the tribute: "I will maintain my transcendent status and will not establish my own city-state." Not only to Apollo, but also to other main gods.Establish her own city-state, she will no longer have the influence she has today.

When Zeus heard what the goddess said, his mind moved slightly: "Although she showed a look of desire and desire. But I hope that the temple has expanded too fast these years, and I must bring her under my control as soon as possible. It's a pity that she took her away early. marriage, you can't start from here."

Looking at Apollo, then at Hermes, and finally at himself, Zeus was hesitant, not knowing how to deal with this newly promoted lord god.

However, in a certain temple on the holy mountain, a goddess held a wisp of black hair with a smile on her mouth: "So that's the case, it seems that I can also prepare earlier. The protection of the world, the protection of time? It's a pity that time The greatness of you is not something you, a new goddess, can understand." The power of time flickered at the fingertips, and the black hair turned into dust and dispersed.