Chapter 280 The King of Gods and the King of Gods

The news that Ankhsenamon was slept with by Luo Yin spread outside the palace, and the South Egyptian nobles in Memphis quickly responded and united with the North Egyptian nobles who controlled the army.

Because Luo Yin, a person who broke traditions, became the Pharaoh, it would harm the common interests of the South Egyptian nobles and the North Egyptian nobles.

The next day.

Luo Yin met all the ministers alone in the Pharaoh's Hall.

Sitting on the Pharaoh's throne, seeing that the South Egyptian nobles and the North Egyptian nobles looked at him with hostility, Luo Yin said with a playful smile.

"If you want to challenge me, come on, but there will be no Ankhsenamon to stop me today."

As the successor of Ayin II, Horemheb took the initiative to stand up and said.

"Your Majesty Luo Yin! We don't mind a Hittite becoming the Pharaoh, but you must respect our traditions and guarantee the interests of the nobles and the temple. And continue the custom of intermarriage within the Pharaoh's royal family, and ensure that after two generations, your descendants will become real Egyptians."

"I refuse!"

Luo Yin refused without hesitation.

"I came to Egypt to rule all humans and gods, not to be assimilated by you Egyptians."

"Since you refuse to be assimilated by us Egyptians, there is no reason for us to let a Hittite become our pharaoh. Now we southern Egyptians and northern Egyptians must unite and defeat you, the invader."

After Horemheb finished speaking, the northern Egyptian nobles immediately issued an order to let hundreds of fully armed soldiers rush into the hall.

When the Egyptians declared war on Luo Yin, Amon also descended to the palace with a godly figure of 100 meters tall.

"Foreigner! If you don't want to be destroyed by me, leave my territory immediately."

"How dare you say such words to me?"

Luo Yin left the Pharaoh's Hall and confronted Amon with a godly figure of 100 meters tall.

"Amon! Now is not the heyday of the 18th Dynasty. Let me see how much power you still have as the king of the gods."

"Your opponent is not just me."

Accompanying Amon's voice, a god with a height of 100 meters walked out from behind Amon and stood side by side with Amon. It was Ra, the sun god worshipped by the northern Egyptians.

Seeing that Amon and Ra had become his enemies, Luo Yin couldn't help showing a solemn expression on his face.

In the long history of Egypt, Horus, Set, Hathor, Bastetto, Ptah and other gods had once reigned over the gods and become the kings of the gods.

But Amon and Ra are undoubtedly the strongest among these kings of the gods.

Because the 18th Dynasty, which worshipped Amon as the king of the gods, was the most powerful dynasty in Egyptian history.

The 19th Dynasty, which worshipped Ra as the king of the gods, was the greatest dynasty in Egyptian history.

Amon and Ra became his enemies together. Even if Luo Yin believed in his own strength, he had to be on high alert at this time.

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"Amon! Ra! You two actually fought against me, the invader, together. I'm really curious. If you win, how will you distribute the fruits of victory? Can Ra accept Amon continuing to sit on the throne of the king of the gods? Can Amon tolerate Ra having more powerful divine power than him?"

"What a clumsy attempt to sow discord."

Ra said with a bright smile on his young face.

"No matter what you say, it won't change the idea that Amon and I will join forces to deal with you. After we drive you away, how to distribute the benefits is our own business."

Amon remained silent, neither opposing nor agreeing with Ra's words.

In mythology, the supreme god who reigns over the gods as the father of the gods is often the youngest god.

For example, in Greek mythology, although Zeus calls himself the father of the gods, he is actually a younger god than Persephone, Ares, and Artemis as a foreign god.

In Egyptian mythology, Ra reigns over the gods as the creator god, but he is also a young god.

Just as history books are written by victors, so history books have a lot of tampering with reality.

Myths are also compiled by victors, so myths have a lot of settings that deviate from reality.

For example, in Egyptian mythology, Horus is set as the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld, and the great goddess Insis, and the grandson of Ra.

But in real history, when Horus reigned over the gods as the king of the gods, Ra may not have been born yet.

In primitive mythology, Horus is the second son of the god of the sky and the god of the earth.

If in primitive worship, the god of the sky and the god of the earth are the creator gods symbolizing the world itself, Horus and his brother are undoubtedly the most powerful and noble gods.

So more than four thousand years ago, sometimes Horus became the king of the gods, and sometimes Set became the king of the gods.

As a young new god, Ra would claim to be the father of all gods because he absorbed and merged the older sun gods Atum and Khepri.

The center of Ra's worship was the Sun City he obtained after absorbing the sun god Atum.

The city of Memphis was the center of worship for Ptah, the god of fire and craftsmen.

In the history written by the victors, there are such records that deviate from reality. Although the city of Memphis was the center of worship for Ptah, the pharaoh who ruled the city of Memphis more than 4,000 years ago worshipped Ra as the supreme god.

The conflict between myth and reality is really funny.

If the worship of Ra was so ancient, would it be necessary to absorb Atum and take Atum's mythology and worship center for itself?

The Pharaoh of Memphis was so stupid that he did not respect the local supreme god Ptah, but worshipped a weak foreign god as the supreme god?

The funniest thing is that the people who compiled the myths for Ra forcibly linked Ra with the kings of the gods of all dynasties, and came up with names such as Horus Ra, Atum Ra, and Amon Ra, trying to create an illusion that Ra was the ancient king of the gods from the beginning, and other gods became kings of the gods because they shared the throne with Ra.

Although this self-deceiving spiritual victory method cannot deceive people today, people who do not understand mythology and history thousands of years later take it seriously.

As the guardian god of the 18th Dynasty, the most powerful in Egyptian history, Amon is the true king of the Egyptian gods.

Rather than the king of gods of a certain city-state or a certain region.

Before Amon became the king of gods, Ra himself was just the supreme god worshipped by a city or a place.

Amon became the first true king of gods in Egypt because the blade of the 18th Dynasty conquered the whole of Egypt.

People with normal brains understand that in mythology, Amon and Ra merged into Amon-Ra, and even Amon and Ra shared the throne of the king of gods, but it was just a deliberate fabrication of myths that deviated from real history, forcibly linking Ra and Amon together and elevating Ra's status.

When Ra really rose and the 19th Dynasty, which respected Ra, ruled Egypt, a dramatic scene appeared.

Those who fabricated myths and history no longer mentioned Amon-Ra, Horus-Ra, Atum-Ra - these messy names that forced Ra to be associated with the ancient king of gods.

From the 19th Dynasty, Ra was Ra, and Ra was the only sun god.

This made Luo Yin come up with a joke.

Student: Why was Ra's name always associated with those kings of gods before the 19th Dynasty?

Teacher: Because Ra is not really the king of the gods.

Student: Why is Ra's name no longer associated with other gods since the 19th Dynasty?

Teacher: Because Ra is now really the king of the gods.