Chapter 144: Love-hate relationship
The underworld in Greek mythology can be roughly divided into three parts: Aspedros, where the souls of ordinary people live after death; Elysium, where heroes and innocent souls live; and Tartarus, where the guilty souls are punished. In addition to all the dead souls, some of the Titans overthrown by Zeus were also imprisoned in the underworld.
The poet Dante mentioned the three worlds after death in "The Divine Comedy" - Purgatory, Hell and Heaven.
Is there a strange sense of déjà vu between the two?
That’s right, as the ultimate patchwork of the future, Christian mythology is likely to have borrowed from the triple setting of the afterlife in Greek mythology.
Therefore, now that the Dionysian Church has been established, it is time to seize the time to create the legendary "Last Judgement" and "Purgatory", "Hell", and "Heaven" one after another, perfect its own theological worldview independent of the Olympus genealogy, and further increase its influence on believers and their cohesion in the sect.
After making this move, Loen could already foresee that the power of faith he had obtained would surge again.
Moreover, he can also plant a few hidden chess pieces of his own in the underworld.
——He didn't believe in Zeus, but he also didn't believe in the goddess in front of him who seemed to be of great help to him.
"What are you thinking about?" Hecate asked curiously, dragging her chin.
Loen raised his head, looked at the illusory and misty figure in front of him, and spoke meaningfully.
"I was wondering, since it was you who made the fate of this world, why do you want me to break it?"
“……!”
In an instant, Hecate's smile froze, and her dark eyes stared deeply at the figure in front of her, like an abyss and darkness that swallowed everything.
However, facing the goddess's scrutiny and the incomparable oppression, Loen remained unmoved and instead showed a playful smile.
"Is that right? Then let me continue to guess. Are you the part that was abandoned by [Necessity]?"
"A half-step forward is a genius, a step forward is a madman, being too smart is not necessarily a good thing."
Hecate picked up the wine glass and took a sip, reminding quietly, with a hint of gloom in her tone.
But the more this happened, the more the smile on Loen's face became.
In the original texts of Orphism (originally Dionysianism), Nyx was regarded as the supreme god of the three goddesses, and possessed three different super-god identities. She could be Ananke, the goddess of destiny, Adrastia, the goddess of retribution, and Hermarmene, the goddess of cause and effect. She represented all inevitable destinies and was the [mother] of the three goddesses of fate.
But Hecate, who is also a three-phase goddess and is the closest to Nyx, has a completely different divinity, representing [game], [opportunity] and [possibility]...
So Loen guessed that something must have happened.
- For example, Nyx, the original body, split for some reason, forming the three goddesses of fate representing [necessity] and [constant], and Hecate representing [chance] and [opportunity].
To put it in a way that is easier for Oriental people to understand, there are fifty great ways, forty-nine are derived from heaven, and one is missing.
If Nyx is compared to the [Tao], then the three goddesses of fate are the [Heavenly Way] that determines the operation of the world, and the one who escaped is Hecate, representing the possibility of [change] and [subversion].
Perhaps all the differences began when Zeus swallowed Metis and transcended his own destiny.
It is for this reason that the king of the gods of Olympus respects and fears Hecate.
Because, like the three goddesses of fate, she is part of Nyx.
Only in this way can we explain why Hecate can turn the wheel of fate and make everything no longer certain!
Loen smiled and let go, and the serpentine twelve-sided dice rolled in front of the two of them.
——God plays dice.
Although Einstein opposed this, more and more evidence later showed that the future of mankind is in a world where everything is determined by "chance", whether it is the currently popular big data, artificial intelligence, or biomedicine, gene editing, all disciplines and fields, including our lives, are inseparable from and cannot be circumvented by "God's dice".
In other words, [randomness] and [accident] may be the inherent norm of the world and the underlying color of the world.
"You want to use me to overturn your inevitable fate and take back your original authority?"
Loen looked at the three-phase goddess in front of him and asked thoughtfully.
"And that so-called divergence point is Zeus?"
Hecate did not answer, but stared at the table quietly, somewhat absent-mindedly.
"Don't worry, I'm no threat to you, and I have no intention of becoming your enemy, so you don't have to be so defensive against me."
Lorne stated the truth frankly, then spoke calmly.
"It's just that we are both variables that are denied by [Fate], so shouldn't we talk about some things openly and honestly?"
Not knowing what she was thinking of, Hecate looked up again with a playful smile on her face.
"What do you want to know?"
"Why me?"
“Opportunities and possibilities are everywhere. They can exist in the past, the present, or the future. They can be Poros who has never been born, Zagreus who has been resurrected from the dead, or Dionysus who has been reborn and died again…”
Luo En seemed to be thinking about something, his eyes flickering faintly.
"It could also be me, a [variable] outside of fate?"
Then, he smiled to himself, his eyes meeting those deep eyes.
"So? You had this planned long ago?"
"It is accidental, but also inevitable."
Hecate groaned meaningfully, loosened her five fingers as well, and threw her twelve-sided dice onto the table.
With a rolling sound, the dice finally rolled out the number of points composed of several petals.
——This is the emblem of Aphrodite.
Lorne looked down with a subtle look in his eyes.
——His own one, too.
Dice usually come in pairs, and Ananke, the goddess of constants, also has a corresponding spouse, Chronos, the god of chance.
However, Chronos and his consort Ananke are gods that only exist in the Orphic cult (Dionysianism), and no other cult has them. The early Orphic cult believed that Phanes was the original god and the creator of the universe.
The god Chronos was added to the later "Twenty-Four Lines of the Sacred Text" and other versions. The "Sacred Text" believes that Chronos is the first origin and created everything.
Similarly, Ananke, who created the world with Chronos, is only one side of the three-phase goddess Nyx.
"The stakes have been placed, and the game has officially begun. Show your worth. I will spin the wheel of fate for you to see if you can survive the desperate situation by gamble everything on it!"
The low voice gradually faded away and finally disappeared.
The figure in front of the seat also disappeared into thin air, leaving only the aftertaste of the sound.
Loen looked at the dice spinning on the table again, his expression uncertain.
(End of this chapter)
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