Chapter 265 The Four Main Gods of Semitic Mythology

Although there is a saying in strategy that befriends far away and attacks close, there is also a saying that rabbits do not eat grass near their nests.

If there are exchanges between countries, it is applicable to distant relations and close attacks.

But what applies to pirates is obviously that rabbits don’t eat grass beside their nests.

Because the essence of piracy is that areas with advanced navigation technology and civilization use navigation technology to plunder and even colonize areas with backward civilization.

If pirates plunder adjacent areas, even if the neighbors do not have advanced navigation technology, they can still launch a revenge war against the pirates' hometown from land.

Therefore, for the safety of their hometown, pirates usually live in peace with their neighbors and go to remote areas with backward civilization to plunder.

The island of Cyprus is across the sea from the Cilicia region. In order to prevent their hometown from being attacked by Cyprus, the Cilicia pirates did not regard Cyprus as a target for plundering wealth.

After hearing Luo Yin's request for information about the Cilicia pirates, King Alathia of Cyprus said with a troubled expression.

"Our relationship with the Cilician pirates has always been peaceful. If we betray their information, the Cilician pirates will definitely retaliate against us."

"The Kingdom of Cyprus is a maritime power. Don't you even have the confidence to deal with pirates?"

Luo Yin teased with a sneer.

"If you are worried about retaliation from pirates, we can assure you that we will use massacre to deal a fatal blow to the Cilicia pirates, so that the Cilicia pirates will never recover."

"Even if you say so..."

Alasia looked troubled, obviously not believing that the Mycenaeans' cross-sea expedition could deal a fatal blow to the Cilicias fighting on the mainland.

Seeing Alashia's reaction, Amphitryon said with an unhappy expression.

"King Alashia, do you no longer regard us as compatriots and your own people?"

"Compatriots? One of our own?"

Alashia couldn't help but sneered.

"After hundreds of years of integrating into the local area, you are already Mycenaeans, and we are Cypriots. Who are your compatriots and our own people? Even if we have the same ancestors, we are different now Nationality. Do you think that the three Zeus brothers worshiped by your Mycenaeans are different identities of the same god as the three Baal brothers on the east coast of the Eastern Mediterranean? "

Amphitryon shook his head without hesitation.

The Mycenaeans worshiped the three Zeus brothers as the supreme god and helped Zeus dominate the Peloponnese Peninsula.

The three Baal brothers on the east coast of the Eastern Mediterranean are religious gods without a god's throne. They can only rely on spiritual victory to declare themselves the kings of the gods in territories ruled by foreign invaders.

Neither Zeus nor the Mycenaeans could afford to be ashamed of treating the three brothers of Zeus and the three brothers of Baal as the same gods.

What's more, after hundreds of years, the three brothers Zeus and the three brothers Baal have evolved into different gods.

The core of the three brother gods composed of the sky god, the sea god, and the god of the underworld was originally a storm god with the attributes of the sky god worshiped by the Semitic people on the east coast of the Eastern Mediterranean.

After being confused with Insikul, the god of thunder and rain in Sumerian mythology, the storm god Adela evolved into the god of storms and thunderstorms in mythology.

Of course, the confusion between gods never means that two different gods merge into the same god in reality.

So Adad, the storm god, is still Adad, the storm god, and Yinsi Kul, the thunder and rain god, is still Yin Xikul, the thunder and rain god.

Influenced by Sumerian mythology, Inshtar, as Adad's sister and companion, became the war goddess Astarte worshiped by the Semitic people.

What is more likely is that the goddess Astarte, whom the Semitic people had always worshiped, absorbed the concept of Inshtar and evolved into a goddess similar to Inshtar.

Therefore, the Semitic goddess Astarte has similarities with the Sumerian goddess Inshtar, but there are also fundamental differences.

Looking up and looking at Aphrodite's beautiful Bi Tong, Luo Yin couldn't help but whisper in his heart.

"The goddess Astartes has been rewritten beyond recognition by foreign invaders. Perhaps Astartes has left her past territory and become Aphrodite on the island of Cyprus. Just like the three Storm God brothers went to Pelopon The Nyssa Peninsula evolved into the three brothers of the God of Thunder.”

In Sumerian mythology, Insikull, the god of thunder and rain, is just an insignificant god.

Adad, the storm god, is the supreme god worshiped by the Semitic people.

If these two gods are confused in mythology, the Semitic king of gods, the storm god Adad, is regarded as the same god as the thunder god Yinsikul in Sumerian mythology - to the Mesopotamia of several gods I am afraid that the people of Mesopotamia will happily accept the king of the gods of the Semites to kneel down and worship their king of gods. The Semites will never accept the gods of the Mesopotamia overriding their storm god. Above Adad.

There are usually two examples of confusion between gods from different myths.

The first example is that the powerful myth of Mesopotamia absorbed Adad, and mixed the Semitic king of gods Adad with the god of thunder and rain, Yinsikul, to produce the Semitic supreme god who was replaced by the supreme god of Mesopotamia. the result of domination.

Then the people of Mesopotamia can claim that your Semitic gods are ruled by our gods of Mesopotamia, so you Semites should also be ruled by us people of Mesopotamia.

The Romans confused the twelve Roman gods with the twelve Greek gods, and also wanted the twelve Roman gods to absorb the twelve Greek gods, and declared to the Greeks that the Romans and the Greeks believed in the same twelve gods, so the Greeks should not resist the rule of the Romans.

However, they did not expect that the twelve Greek gods had a deep mythological background. Not only were they not absorbed by the twelve Roman gods, but they also absorbed the twelve Roman gods in turn.

But the original intention of the Romans to confuse the twelve Roman gods with the twelve Greek gods was definitely to let the twelve Roman gods absorb the twelve Greek gods, rather than to let their gods be absorbed by the Greek gods.

The second example of the confusion of gods is the confusion between Apollo and the sun god Helios.

This kind of confusion is usually that weak gods deliberately confuse with powerful gods in order to elevate their status, and finally absorb powerful gods.

No matter how the gods are confused in mythology, we must understand that in reality, different gods are always different gods.

The Mesopotamian Basin is not adjacent to the sea, so although there is a worship of water gods in the Mesopotamian Basin, there is no worship of sea gods.

Yin Sikuer, the thunder god of the Mesopotamian Basin, therefore has no sea god as his brother.

The Semites live on the eastern coast of the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and obtaining food from the ocean is an important way for them to survive.

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Therefore, Adad, the storm god of the Semites, has a brother named Yam, the god of the sea.

This is also an important proof that Adad and Yin Sikuer are different gods in reality.

The territory where the Semites live is adjacent to the Mesopotamian Basin and the Egyptian region, and has in-depth exchanges with the Egyptian region.

When the worship of the underworld god in the Egyptian region was absorbed by the Semites, Adad, the storm god of the Semites, had another brother - the underworld god Mot.