novelkee Chapter 2022
Chapter 2022
Chapter 2022
"Still thinking about Zeus?" Just when Kai was confused, Thoth came.
"You know?" Kai turned his head and looked at Thoth in surprise.
The Egyptian god of wisdom was seen pinching his brows and saying, "These barbarians are too good at drinking."
Egyptians also like to drink, and drinking plays an important role in the lives of ancient Egyptians. Alcohol can kill bacteria and help people stay healthy. Beer made from barley is considered a good food because of its light taste, not easy to get drunk and rich in nutrition. The workers who built the pyramids of Giza would drink it three or four times a day to replenish their energy. Wine is a more precious drink. Generally speaking, only people in the upper class can afford it. In the murals of ancient Egyptian tombs depicting banquets, you can see that wine is provided to guests as a precious drink. At the banquet, the guests were drunk and staggering, but this was not a rare thing in ancient Egypt, because people at that time regarded drunkenness as an important entertainment activity.
Through countless papyrus paintings, tomb murals, pottery figurines, and reliefs, we can still clearly see the scenes of ancient Egyptians kneading dough for brewing beer, picking grapes, storing wine, drinking, and sobering up. Extensive research has proved that beer brewing originated in ancient Egypt. The ancient Egyptians piled water-soaked barley on a flat stone slab to make it germinate, and then dried it in the sun or with firewood after a few days. The dry barley was pounded into powder, put into a wooden barrel, and added with an appropriate amount of warm water. People stepped on the malt powder in the barrel to make dough. After the yeast in the air fermented and expanded the dough, it was manually kneaded into a bread shape and baked to make the starch gelatinize and the protein coagulate. Then it was mashed again, mixed with hot water, and filtered with a sieve or fig leaves to obtain wort. The wort was poured into a pottery jar for fermentation, and honey, herbs and spices were added to brew a sweet, foam-free, and thicker beer that is different from today.
After a day's work, people like to gather in the "beer house" and drink from pottery jars using straws as straws, or pour beer into cups to drink, to relieve the fatigue of the day. This scene is quite similar to today's bars. At the same time, beer is also a good medicine. A medical document from 1800 BC records more than 700 prescriptions, of which the word "beer" appears in about 100. People also buried beer as a sacrifice. There is a saying in the tombs of ancient Egypt: "Beef, poultry, bread and beer will give his soul rest.
Although the origin of wine is not Egypt, but from West Asia, the Egyptians, like the Sumerians in West Asia, regarded grapevines as the "tree of life" and wine as a gift from the gods. In Egyptian mythology, the goddess Isis became pregnant after eating grapes and gave birth to Horus, the king of gods. Wine is considered to be the sweat of the sun god and the eyes of Horus. Therefore, wine, a sacred drink, has always been offered as a sacrifice to gods and the dead. Since the color of wine is similar to that of blood, wine also represents the rebirth of life. In various religious festivals in ancient Egypt, wine was used in large quantities because people believed that it would help connect this life with the afterlife and ensure the rebirth of the pharaoh. Like beer, wine is often used as medicine with other substances. Ancient Egypt used wine and wheat porridge to treat indigestion, wine and salt to treat coughs, and wine and dill to relieve pain. Ancient Egyptian laxatives consisted of wine, honey, etc., while insecticides consisted of wine, frankincense and honey. Grapes and figs can also be used to exorcise demons.
To be honest, Egyptians can still drink a lot.
But it depends on who you compare it with. Compared with the ancient Greeks, they are about the same.
But compared to the Asgardians... they are much worse.
It seems that the further north you go, the more people can drink, especially those ethnic groups living in areas of ice and snow, who can drink especially well.
This is even more true for the Asgardians. Their mead, after so many years of improvement, is simply a poison to ordinary people. Only some fruit wines for children can be tolerated by the people on Earth. Facts have proved that even the gods cannot withstand the drinking capacity of these beasts in Asgard.
"what do you know?"
Kai asked.
"I don't know, but I guessed it. Zeus did it on purpose."
? ? ? ?
Kai looked at Toth with a black question mark on his face.
In fact, Kai could see that Zeus did it on purpose, but the question was why?
"It's actually very simple... He doesn't want to take any risks!"
"Huh?" Kai certainly knew the reason.
But the same question remains, why do we have to do this?
Thoth looked at Kai's expression and knew that Kai could not quite understand Zeus's way of thinking.
But Thoth could understand.
"Zeus isn't actually stupid, he knows that Ger is a huge threat, but he's afraid."
Gel's Black Death Sword is simply the nemesis of gods. Not only can it easily hurt gods, but the more gods it kills, the stronger it becomes. The gods have become the nourishment of a weapon, which is a very incredible thing in the eyes of gods.
It is also because of this that Zeus is very afraid of a head-on confrontation with Ger.
If you lose, you're done.
But even if he won, Zeus felt that he would not gain anything. What did Gol have? A miserable life!
Zeus is no longer the leader of the gods in that area of the Earth. He has now left the Earth and headed for the universe. His thinking cannot be limited to the pattern of a gang leader. He can't really do something meaningless just for a moment of anger.
Although this is very cowardly...but the problem is that it is useless even if he wants to be cowardly!
So, he still resisted confronting Gel.
But he was rational and knew that if he left it alone, he would be the one who would suffer in the end.
so what should I do now?
Naturally, let others take the blame!
who?
Earth and Asgard!
Otherwise, why would he betray the secret of the Eternal Altar?
But he was afraid that the Earth and Asgard could not bear it.
After all, Gel's strength has been fully demonstrated.
So when he caught Toer and Kai, his anger was not fake. He was really angry... Why are you two bastards coming to me instead of fighting with Geer? Invite Geer here again!
So he was very angry at that time.
But there's nothing we can do to them.
After all, if he really dealt with them, who would help him deal with Gel?
Besides, these two guys are not weaklings. If they really fight, who knows how many people will die.
Not worth it!
Turns out Thor wanted thunder and fire.
Zeus thought about it and gave it away.
Why else would he perform such acrobatics in front of Thor?
He is not someone who likes to support the younger generation.
The gods are not all saints with noble character. On the contrary, most of them have similar evils to human nature. It can be said that in many cases, the gods are more ruthless and cruel than humans. Their desire for power is even greater than that of humans.
Among them, the three generations of gods in Greek mythology did not hesitate to hurt their own children to ensure control over the world. The first generation of gods, Uranus, the god of the sky, the second generation of gods, Kronos, the god of the Titans, and the third generation of gods, Zeus, the god of thunder, were first victims and then perpetrators. Among them, Zeus was the most cruel, swallowing the mother and child before the child was born. Today, I will tell you in detail how the three generations of gods in Greek mythology hurt their own children.
Uranus is the first generation of gods in Greek mythology. He is the god of the sky created by the earth goddess Gaia from her own body. Later, in order to create more descendants of gods, Gaia and Uranus became husband and wife. They gave birth to the earliest group of gods in the world: twelve Titans (six men and six women), three Cyclops, and three hundred-armed giants. These earliest gods were not only huge in size, but also had great power. This was a good thing, but it caused their father's concern. As the first generation of gods, Uranus was afraid of the powerful power of his children and worried that they would unite to rebel against him one day, so he imprisoned them all in Tartarus as soon as possible. Tartarus is the abyss of hell created by Gaia and the god of space Aether. It is located at the bottom of the earth and is more terrifying and gloomy than hell. As a mother, Gaia was tired of her husband's brutal rule, so she instigated her youngest son, the Titan god Kronos, to rebel. She took out the diamond from her body and made a scimitar. Kronos took it and cut off his father's genitals while he was asleep, and drove him to the distant horizon. Later, Kronos rescued his brothers and sisters who were imprisoned in Tartarus (the Cyclops and the Hecatonchus were left inside), and ruled the Greek mythological world with them. Although Kronos drove his father away and ruled the world, his father gave him a prophecy before he left: Your rule will eventually be overthrown by your children.
Because of this sentence, the seeds of sin were planted in Kronos' heart. In order to ensure that the prophecy would not come true, he asked his wife Rhea to hand over the newborn babies to him, and then cruelly swallowed them. In total, he swallowed five children, including Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Poseidon and Hades. Zeus narrowly escaped the fate of being swallowed by his father and grew up healthily. When he grew up, Zeus decided to seek revenge on his father and rescue his brothers and sisters. So he asked the goddess Metis to make a bottle of emetic potion and secretly put it in Kronos's meal, successfully rescuing his swallowed brothers and sisters.
This story is simply a remake of the previous one.
Later, Zeus united his rescued brothers and sisters to overthrow the rule of his father, Knoros, and then defeated the rebellious Titans, becoming the third generation of gods who ruled the world of Greek mythology. After Zeus became the third generation of gods, he thought he could rule the world steadily, but suddenly one day, the goddess of fate, Moirai, told him that the son born by the goddess Metis would overthrow his throne. Because Zeus knew that his grandfather and father were both robbed of their thrones by their children, he was even more worried that the words of the goddess of fate would come true. At this time, the goddess Metis was already pregnant with his flesh and blood. Because he was afraid of repeating the old path of his grandfather and father, he couldn't wait until the child was born to deal with this matter. So he used sweet words to trick Metis and swallowed her and the unborn child together. But things did not develop as Zeus expected. After swallowing Metis and her son, Zeus felt a headache, and as time went on, the pain became more and more intense, to the point where he could not bear it. Later, Zeus called his son, Hephaestus, the god of craftsmen, and asked him to split his head with an axe to see what was causing him so much pain.
Hephaestus could only obey his father's order, picked up an axe and chopped his head fiercely. As a result, the wisest and bravest goddess in Greek mythology, Athena, was born from the crack. Athena was born as a female warrior in armor. She not only inherited the power of her father Zeus, but also had the wisdom and talent of her mother, the goddess of wisdom Metis. She was a man of both civil and military talents. Zeus thought of the goddess of fate saying that Metis's son would take his throne, but Athena was a girl, so he didn't have to worry about it anymore. Later, Athena became his favorite child and also his most capable assistant. And Zeus became the last generation of gods in Greek mythology and the eternal ruler of the three realms.
But in fact, the curse has always existed.
This led to Zeus never liking his children very much.
Especially my son.
He has always had an extraordinary fear of them.
Except Hephaestus, because he was a cripple and not good at fighting.
Compared to Apollo or Ares, Zeus was quite defensive.
As for my daughter, I can be much more relieved.
There is even a legend claiming that he would be killed by Hercules... I don't know if it's true or not!
So Zeus actually hates young people because it means he is old. The reason why he lets his children share his power is that he is afraid of his brothers and sisters and is afraid that they will seize his power, so he needs his children to help him consolidate his power, and on the other hand, it is also to prevent his children from betraying him.
His grandfather and father set a good example for him.
Suppressing your own children, not giving them any benefits or power, what is the result? Isn't it still overthrown?
He is much more open-minded and can share power with his children.
But at the same time he was still afraid of the curse.
He was afraid that he would be overthrown when he woke up one day. You know, his father's generation was more miserable than the previous one. His grandfather was at least exiled, but his father was sealed into the abyss by his own hands.
He couldn't imagine what would happen to him after being overthrown.
So Zeus gave Thor thunder and fire not out of a desire to help, he just wanted Thor to defeat Gorr!