59 – Apollo and Artemis
Olympus, the great mountain that all those who were born in Greece and worshiped the gods must look up to.
On that peak rising to the sky beyond the sky, the city of the great gods was situated.
Starting with the great temple of Zeus and Hera built on the highest peak, the messenger temple of Hermes, where messenger birds, papyrus, messengers and wind gods come and go.
Athena’s great library that governs Olympus’ clothing, tactics, knowledge, and art.
The barley temple of Demeter, always lingering with the fragrant smell of bread and the savory smell of barley.
Aphrodite’s rose temple, which is always beautiful with swans and roses, and so on.
As if embodying the work of each god, the brilliant and beautiful temple always looked down on the residents of Olympus and the believers in Greece.
And if I had to choose the most dazzling temple among them, I’d pick the Temple of the Sun, which always shines brightly, located in the eastern part of Olympus.
When you go up the white marble steps, you will be greeted by blue laurel trees planted to commemorate the grief-stricken love of the owner of the temple.
As the believer passes by, recalling the heartbreaking love between the god and the nymph contained in the laurel tree, he is greeted by a temple decorated with olivine and adamantine, with pillars and roofs of gold and silver.
The sculpture engraved on the pillar detailed the hardships the owner of the great temple went through at birth, the feat of defeating the giant serpent Python, and the feat of leading the chariot of the eternal sun.
The pilgrims who pass by and visit scatter to make their own wishes.
If you are a pilgrim who has come to the god of healing to get rid of your sickness, pray by offering a white crow in front of a mournful laurel tree.
A poet who came to pray for inspiration to the god of music would play the instruments he had brought while basking in the warm sunlight.
A believer who has come to pay admiration and admiration for the god of the sun will pass by a relief depicting Python’s death and kneel down under a carefully carved image of the owner of the temple to pay tribute.
And when the believer who praised the sun looks up and reveres the statue of God.
Beyond the god statue, I could see the god’s mansion always filled with bright sunlight.
However, the mansion of the god beyond the statue of Yosahi had long since disappeared beyond the gate.
Always welcoming the sick and poets who came to visit them, the doors that were wide open were closed tightly, rejecting visitors. They only let out a sad sigh at their hidden idol.
At the Temple of the Sun, where there is a gloomy atmosphere under such warm sunlight, a violent guest who does not belong to any of the above visitors has visited.
– Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
A golden gate carved with the image of a beautiful god driving the golden chariot of the sun.
Visitors pounded violently at the door, which no one in the temple dared to touch because it was so sinful to even touch it.
“Brother! Brother!!”
Normally, her enraged followers and nymphs would have driven her outrageous scoundrel in unison, but at this moment none of the guards of her shrine dared to restrain her.
“Dang! Chang! Door! Open! Eh!!”
– Bang!
Beautiful eyes that gleam fiercely, silky dark hair rolled up so as not to get in the way.
The goddess of motherhood, the beautiful hunting clothes woven by her mother, Leto, and the silver bow, a masterpiece of Hephaestus, told us who she was.
“Ah, Artemis-sama is here…!”
“Nymphs! Evacuate quickly!”
“Oh, what a mess!”
The believers, who had been quietly self-reliant according to the faith of their god, fled in panic at the sudden visit of the goddess of the moon.
She came every day to see her brother imprisoned in the temple, but today she seemed very uncomfortable.
One of the most elusive in Olympus, the Moon Hunter was known for being harsh on those who were not his followers, especially men and married women.
Her cruelty, especially her cruel banishment of her poor Callisto, who had been forcibly deprived of her virginity by Zeus, and even witnessing her being cursed by her queen Hera to turn her into a bear, was her Olympian’s cruelty. It was enough to make even the locals afraid of her.
Especially if it was Artemis, who was angry to the point of her head like that and ran amok for a long time, if it bothered her eyes even a little, she would be better off dead.
The followers of the sun, who were quietly guarding the door, had no choice but to run away in a hurry, praying for the safety of the god who closed the door.
“Don’t you open the door?!”
The believers scattered, and Artemis, who was left alone in front of the large door, gnashed her teeth.
However, there was something that the believers who hurriedly fled did not notice.
The bright red handprints on her neat and beautiful face, resembling the moon in the sky.
A messy white hunting suit, as if it had rolled on the ground.
A silver bow and arrows that might have been broken, or that were dangling in the bow case.
She was not her true face, so much so that if her hunters or other villagers saw her, she would be horrified.
Her eyes, filled with anger and humiliation, with her tears streaming down her eyes, would have made her heart break.
Her proud hunter would not forgive her rude ones who caught glimpses of her obviously her own ugliness.
It can be said that the quick response and escape of the residents of Olympus were wise.
“Ahhh… Brother…! Unlucky..!!”
Artemis, who was diligently searching for her brother, wondering what the hell had happened to her, was about to burst into tears in the end.
Then, as if she had heard her cry, the huge golden door opened silently, and her brother, whom she had been searching for, hurriedly rushed out to meet her, accompanied by the warm sunlight.
“Artemis! My sister!”
“Oooh…! Urabii!!”
Artemis burst into tears as she was embraced by her brother.
“Sister, what the hell is going on? What’s wrong with your face?! “
“Huh! Urabii!!”
Seeing the face of her sister wailing in her arms without being able to say anything properly, Apollo seemed to break her heart.
Who dares to leave such a grievous scar on the daughter of Zeus and his sister, the throne of the Twelve Gods of Olympus?
“Come in first. Let’s take care of the wound quickly.”
“Huh…”
“Come on!”
“Hey!”
Having untied her sister’s nose with the hem of her garment, Apollo took her to the healing station prepared in his abode and began examining her wounds.
“It must have hurt a lot. If this is the case, you should have come straight to me. Why are you frightening believers at the door?”
“Yeah, but…”
I wiped Artemis’ swollen face with golden salve made with ambrosia and medicinal herbs.
Apollon’s special elixir that instantly heals any scar just by applying it.
However, he cleaned it carefully three times and even mobilized the power of healing.
The bright red scars on her sister’s beautiful face showed no signs of disappearing.
At that sight, Apollo’s face stiffened.
“No way, sister… Did you quarrel with Hera-sama?”
How many beings would dare to strike Artemis, the goddess of the moon, like this and even destroy her sacred objects?
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“Hiccup!”
As if his guess was correct, Artemis, who had been whimpering, stiffened in surprise.
“Ugh… Why did you do that…”
Queen, protector of families and marriages, and the most powerful goddess.
As the old Earth Mother and the guardian of ancient mysteries, she was a great witch with powerful ancient monsters even though she handed over all her work to Demeter and Hecate. She was a goddess of tremendous divine power worthy of the name of the Queen of the Gods.
Zeus’s flirtatiousness reached its peak, and in the winter when she was extremely angry, a cold wind covered Greece so fierce that even Apollo, who drove the chariot of the sun, had to wear a thick fur coat.
Given the origins of the siblings, she should have been grateful that Her Majesty the Queen had even granted them the throne of Olympus.
It was true that the two siblings suffered from Hera’s persecution along with their mother, Leto, from the time they were born.
First of all, it was because they knew that the two siblings were illegitimate children born as a result of the god Zeus not respecting the queen’s business, and Zeus’s decision to recognize the two’s achievements and establish them as god gods passed because of the queen’s mercy. .
“What the hell happened?”
“That’s it… Wow!!”
Both Apollo and Artemis had been very careful not to collide with her because it was very difficult for her to face her queen who was persecuting them.
Apollo couldn’t understand why Artemis had been so humiliated by her queen.
Seeing Artemis burst into tears again, Apollo let out a deep sigh and hurriedly went somewhere.
“Calm down and listen to this, sister. It will warm you up.”
She hand-made a warm neck tar brewed with medicinal herbs for comfort and a warm blanket draped over her shoulders.
Sipping the warm neck tar that steamed her up, Artemis stared down at the ground for a long time with her swollen eyes.
She looked at her patiently waiting brother, however, and she opened her mouth soon.
“That’s…”
A few hours ago.
Her hunters brought devastating news.
She is in love with the female hunter Atalanta, who is in the Forest of Heroes, whom she loves.
When she dared to save her life by herself, her faithful swore to live her chastity for her own sake, betraying her and making her lover.
The nymphs of the forest say that on a bright morning when their brother Apollo started driving her chariot, they kissed each other passionately for all to see.
It was beyond her interest to say that Hera blessed them both, or that she personally decorated Atalanta.
She betrayed her. She deserved to be cruel enough that the hunter would rather be comfortable with her death as the price for her. She even forgot that the place where they were, Chiron’s sanctuary, was the information that the lover was Dianes of the hateful Pasos who left a scar on her shoulder.
“Artemis.”
Just as her carriage is entering Messenia near the Forest of Heroes.
There was her lofty voice calling her from the heights of Mount Taygetos, which guarded the borders of her Messenia.
“Your Majesty?”
Her midwinter Her smile as cool as the north wind Hera sitting on her mountain peak beckons her to come here.
The goddess she feared the most in the world suddenly blocked her path.
“Evening is still far away. What the hell is going on? Even taking care of the moonlight like that.”
“….”
“My throat hurts. Are you going to talk on top of the carriage?”
How dare you make me look up and talk to you right now.
Hera, who quietly threatened her, did not seem to let her go easily.
But now she didn’t have time for this.
I had to punish the traitor who betrayed her as soon as possible and the black hair who took away her hunter.
“Ji, I am busy right now! We have to go quickly!”
Then she swung the reins of the carriage again and was about to escape from her seat.
“…Since when did the hierarchy of Olympus become so messed up?”
At the moment Artemis tried to get out of this place as soon as possible at the queen’s voice, which contained subtle anger.
Her mighty power gathered above her head, and then her devastating impact struck her and her wagon.
-Koo Goong!
“Kyaaak?!”
Artemis, who fell with her entire carriage in an instant, couldn’t come to her senses from the impact that hit her whole body.
Artemis screamed as she was crushed by her overturned carriage, her white hands pulling her suddenly from the wreckage of her carriage without even realizing she could question what was going on.
“Turn it off… Whoa?!”
When she came to her senses and opened her eyes.
The Queen of the Gods held her by the collar with one hand and hung her in the air.
“You must be crazy. How dare you look down from the carriage?”
With her beautiful eyes burning with her divine power staring at her and her mighty divine power gripping her tightly, her Artemis seemed to wake her up.
Since she is Artemis who wanders through the forests of Greece rather than Olympus, she had forgotten about it for a while.
Why is the queen called the queen?
Why did Hera call her the goddess of goddesses?
Hera apparently the GOAT