Chapter 68: Several kids for one meal?
The lingering sound is lingering in my ears, awakening my hearing.
After listening to the whole story and combining it with the information he knew, Loen finally pieced together the complete truth.
In fact, the image of a bull and a human body with a bull's head represents sacredness and dignity, and is also a symbol of authority in many civilizations.
This was especially true of the Minoans.
Because the mother of the three Minoan brothers, the goddess Europa, was carried away by a bull transformed by Zeus, which led to the union of the two and the rise of the Minoan civilization.
Therefore, in their sacred emblems, in addition to goddesses incarnated by birds and snakes, the more common symbols are bulls and symbols of people with bull heads.
But if we follow King Minos's statement, it was he, the king, who sacrificed the bull, which embodied the royal power and divinity of Crete, to Poseidon.
According to the logic of the Age of Gods, this means that Crete will henceforth be branded as a province of Poseidon and be dominated by him.
At the same time, this sea god will replace the belief in the Great Mother Goddess and the Queen and become the main object of worship for the Minoans.
Later, once Poseidon wanted to extend the tentacles of his ocean theocracy to the earth, Crete and the Minoans would undoubtedly become his best springboards and targets for his manipulation.
I have to say that this move of replacing one thing with another is brilliant.
But in the end, King Minos discovered the clue and chose to retaliate in his own way. He hid the Cretan bull and sacrificed an ordinary bull to Poseidon.
However, the same method is reasonable when used by Poseidon, but blasphemous when used by King Minos.
The gap in strength determines the scale of justice; this is the cruel truth of the Age of Gods.
Poseidon was furious when his plan failed, and he cursed the bull on the pretext of blasphemy, causing King Minos' wife to suffer from zoophilia. He then seduced her into mating with the Cretan bull, and gave birth to the famous monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man - the Minotaur.
Since their faith is so vivid, it would be the greatest insult to tarnish it with filth and bad reputation.
After sorting out the general clues, Loen looked at the old man with a little more pity.
At this time, little Medusa on the side spoke with some curiosity.
"And the child?"
“Anna!”
Luo En's voice became heavier, his eyes showing anger.
It is not polite after all to let an old man who has suffered so much humiliation open this scar again.
"No problem."
King Minos waved his hand slightly, looked at little Medusa with gentle eyes, showed the tolerance of an elder to the little messenger of God, and answered in a deep voice.
"He's fine, but I locked him up in the underground palace. Because of the curse, he's full of evil spirits and can easily get out of control, so I can't let him out easily."
"Does he eat people?"
It was another innocent yet offensive question, and Lorne couldn't help but smile bitterly and cover his face.
"Haha, of course not! This is just a rumor spread by those city-states outside who are afraid of us Minoans in order to discredit and discredit our emblem."
King Minos smiled generously and explained patiently.
When little Medusa heard the news, she couldn't help but pat her chest and murmured with relief.
"That's good, that's good..."
As a fellow god and monster, she also possesses demonic nature. She is very afraid that her future will become like the rumors say, turning her into a bloodthirsty and murderous monster.
Loen, who had noticed something, reached out his hand unhappily and rubbed the little head that was full of fanciful thoughts, then looked at King Minos.
"So, Daedalus is also part of Poseidon's plan?"
King Minos nodded, his eyes cold.
"Although this man was talented, he was jealous and afraid that his nephew Talos would surpass him. He was so crazy that he tricked his young nephew onto the wall of Athens and pushed him down, killing the child. Eventually, his crime was exposed and he was sentenced to death by the Athenians.
However, because of his status and contributions, he was spared the death penalty and exiled to Crete.
At that time, I happened to be trapped by Poseidon's curse, and I admired his talent, so I recruited him, wanting to give him a chance to display what he had learned for the sake of the goddess.
But he didn’t expect that he had somehow reached a secret cooperation with Poseidon and smeared the thing he made with the body fluid of a cow in estrus…”
At this point, King Minos, as the victim, had a terribly gloomy expression on his face, and it was obvious that he wanted to drag Daedalus out and tear him into pieces.
At this moment, Loen understood.
It was the queen who suffered from zoophilia. When King Minos learned this, he would certainly hide his wife and be on guard against Poseidon's revenge by borrowing the Cretan bull.
But in the end, the queen did not take the initiative to find the Cretan bull to cheat. Instead, the queen who got into the wooden bull was accurately locked on by the Cretan bull that broke into the palace, and then killed.
Obviously, there must be something fishy going on here.
It doesn't make sense if Daedalus didn't do anything.
Therefore, his son's death while crossing the Sea of Oceanus was the retribution for his repeated evil deeds.
Of course, it is also possible that Athena did it secretly...
"Wait, if Poseidon did something so outrageous, what about Zeus? Doesn't he care? He's your father!"
At this time, Hestia on the side could no longer bear it, and threw away the promise of "just eat, don't talk" and looked at her eldest nephew with some indignation.
"Father?"
King Minos sneered and shook his head expressionlessly.
"I have prayed to him countless times, but he has never answered my call..."
"Could it be that he didn't hear it?"
As soon as Hestia opened her mouth, she subconsciously shook her head and overturned the idea.
The face of God cannot be looked directly upon.
The name of God should not be spoken lightly.
This kind of thing concerning faith and divinity was mentioned repeatedly, and it was impossible for Zeus, as the one being summoned, to be completely ignorant of it.
What's more, King Minos himself is the pure bloodline of him and his mortal goddess Europa.
Based on the connection between father and son alone, it is impossible for Zeus to be unresponsive to this.
For a moment, Hestia was at a loss as she couldn't come up with an answer.
"Before, I couldn't figure it out. I always thought that I was the first to break my oath, and he was unable and unwilling to stand up for me and confront his own brother."
King Minos spoke calmly as if he had expected it, then changed the subject with a sarcastic look in his eyes.
"Until one day, the goddess told me that I shouldn't worship the mother goddess more than the father god, and I shouldn't think about sacrificing the real Cretan bull to her to atone for my sins."
I see!
Luo En's eyes sparkled, and the last mystery in his mind was solved.
It’s not that Zeus was unaware of this. On the contrary, he knew about Poseidon’s little tricks from the very beginning!
Because, without his acquiescence, how could the sea god extract the divinity and kingship of Crete from the promised land he gave to his sons?
The reason for all this is very simple.
The Minoans worshipped the Mother Goddess more than the Father God.
King Minos even planned to sacrifice the divinity left by Zeus to Athena.
This undoubtedly violated the taboo of the God King.
After all, the curse buried deep in the Titan's blood has always kept the God-King awake at night.
But Zeus probably had no idea that, despite all his calculations and precautions, the Cretan bull, which embodied the Cretan royal power and divinity, would eventually become a sacrifice to Athena after so many twists and turns.
With the decline of the Minoan civilization, the out-of-control Cretan bull ran rampant on the island of Crete, breathing fire and causing disasters everywhere.
It was not until Hercules, who had endured the twelve trials, landed on the island of Crete, conquered it, and then presented it to Hera in its entirety.
But the queen of heaven, either because she didn't know the value of the sacrifice or because she wanted to humiliate him, released the sacrifice that Hercules had presented to her.
Finally, the Cretan bull was caught by the Athenian prince Theseus and sacrificed to Athena.
With a sneer in his heart, Loen looked up at his brother, whose hair and beard were almost completely white, and whose face looked old and sad, with pity in his eyes.
"So, from then on, you stopped offering sacrifices to the Father?"
“Since God no longer favors man, man has no obligation to worship God any more.”
King Minos nodded quietly, a hint of sarcasm in his calm words.
"Besides, it was the prophet Prometheus who created our bodies, and it was the great mother goddess Athena who gave us our souls. The gods only created this small garden called [world]."
“…”
Hestia, one of the main gods, opened her mouth and wanted to argue, but was ultimately speechless. She chose to purse her lips and lower her head to eat.
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